![]() Gandi sells me any domain for a reasonable price, without bugging me with those AwEs0m3 Features!!!1!!1 I could buy for just 9.99$. Problem solved: "I need to scale this service". Or, I have this blockchain to analyze, let's spin up that 3 big EC2 machines. I have 25.000 req/min on my Heartbleed test API? Fine, spin up that Elastic Load Balancer in front of 15 of those EC2 machines, store logs in that S3 bucket, use that DynamoDB as cache. well I don't actually NEED this one, but it's a nice way to read articles and they will store/index them for me once I read them (see Pinboard) and it's dirty cheap.ĪWS works. Problem solved: "I remember reading about that somewhere, let's look it up".Ī Prime is just the free shipping part, it makes shopping oh-so-much-more enjoyable. Also, it will store a copy of everything I bookmarked, so that it does not get lost. Pinboard just saves my favorites, and lets me search through them when I need (full-text search). Problem solved: "I need to receive and send mail". It's fast, compatible, reliable and has a nice web interface, I don't need anything else. I get my domain with TLS delivery, a support line with devs, and nice power-user tools. Mail is a horrible thing to deal with on your own, but I rely on it, so I want to pay for it. Problem solved: "I need manage my project" + static hosting as a bonus.įastMail simply handles my mail. ![]() Also, GitHub Pages is the best static hosting platform I ever used. GitHub is how I'm trained to manage projects, for my private ones. ![]() Problem solved: "I need to host this sites/domains/DNS/mailboxes for my clients". Power-user friendly, I never thought "I wish they allowed/supported that". Problem solved: "I need to send clients invoices".ĭreamHost hosts anything, unlimited. Big colored buttons will tell me what to do, and if I can't still figure it out, support will do that for me. Problem solved: "My site is slow" + SSL as a bonus.įreshbooks lets me track my time, invoices and payments with 0 learning curve, I'm busy working after all. Problem solved: "I need a Ubuntu box".Ĭloudflare will cache my site - making it faster for clients and lighter for me -, handle DNS and get me A+ TLS (and other services I don't actually use) at the turn of a button. Linode gets me a box with a clear, clean, full-featured control panel, good specs and network, and every year or so, I'll magically get upgraded, so that I feel I'm always getting the best for my money (even if other services are cheaper). All of them will never misbehave, or make me think "did it work" or "how do I turn this off, it's annoying!". What I look for in a paid service, and what I get from these is a reliable, out-of-my-way, "premium" (I feel that the service is working to make things best for me) solution to _one_ problem I have, with good support that actually cares, if applicable.
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