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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
I'm looking at you cloud hosting.
I've never used cloud before. Is it suitable for development work?
Meaning, being able to SSH, install extensions etc?
If a development script goes into a loop does it affect other people's website or is
it isolated?
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Been using Digital Ocean since very beginning. All the VPS instances are isolated within the virtual machine, so it’s impossible to hog on server resources and affect other instances (called droplets) on the server.
No need to mention incredibly fast disks (probably a huge SSD or NVMe arrays). Digital Ocean is a pleasure to use over years having in mind their stability, reliability and speed. One of very few VPS providers I would recommend.
I thought more web developers are acustomed to setting up their own system environment, and I’m really surprised to see people actually using managed hosting, having in mind that there’s just too many free OS and admin panel solutions. Administration of a server basically comes down to logging in like once a week and updating system packages, which is basically a 2 minute work.
In case of production sites, I give my vote to hosting companies and using managed hosting, especially if you are not skilled enough with system administration.
If your project is a more serious one and you need 24/7 control over your operation, I would go with an inhouse sysadmin, which is an expensive option but gives you a total comfort.
Virtualization techology has evolved enough more than a few years ago so there’s practically no difference between owning a physical or virtual server. There’s even more benefits of going virtual, like much bigger speeds and redundancy. However, the costs of using a VPS over a bare metal servers are still higher for reasons unknown to me, while in fact there’s a significant resource savings for the hosting company.