Digital Ocean Cloud Hosting

Sat 14 September 2013 by Herbert

Digital Ocean

Try out Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean is an competitor to Rackspace and Linode. Its a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider and is known for low prices and SSD storage. Herbert has experimented with Digital Ocean a little bit, but still primarily uses Linode.


Hover.com - DNS

Thu 05 April 2012 by Herbert

Hover

Try out Hover

Herbert and his extended has tried out a variety of services for establishing a web presence, screwing around, and putting together simple projects. Amazon EC2, Hurricane Electric, 1and1, Google Apps have all been parts of the puzzle.

Currently Linode is a key piece of the Herbert infrastructure …

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Dropbox - your files anywhere and everywhere

Mon 20 June 2011 by Herbert

Dropbox

Sign up for free with Dropbox.

Herbert uses Dropbox for basic sharing with family. But more often, Dropbox makes a dead simple way to sync files across multiple servers and devices. Dropbox has become the goto way to access files from iOS devices. In fact the posts on this site …

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Linode - a server of your own

Fri 10 June 2011 by Herbert

Linode

Herbert uses Linode 1GB to do web development, run automated tasks (Twitter updates, website production), and keep current on new technologies. It has hosted application servers including Openfire XMPP, NGINX, Redmine, and I'd read of others hosting Asterix and many others. Its a server that doesn't go down due to …

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