So how are these new changes affect the current customer?

• If you are on the annual plan that cost you around $8.50 per month, the new account will cost around $10 per month.
• What do you get for the $1.50 diff per month?
  • Same 100GB disk space but now is SSD disk space
  • from 512MB ram instance becomes 1Gb instance
  • from 600MB bandwidth to 1TB bandwidth
• In case you don’t understand what SSD hosting is, you can take a look here. In short “SSD hosting is typically more resistant to physical shock, run more quietly, have lower access time, and less latency.”
• You can file a support ticket to upgrade, or you can do it yourself, most likely you will get a new IP address since the new SSD hosting will be on the different box.
• If you were using the higher ram instance from Webfaction during the old day, this new release helps you cut around 50% cost ( the old price for 2GB instance is $40).

Enough of the pro, how about some con part.

• You still don’t have root or su access.
• There is no option to adding ram only; you can only upgrade to a higher tier package.
• For each higher tier upgrade, you need to migrate, there is no option to resize on demand.

What so good about Wefaction?

• Webfaction has all the typical hosting features with a lightweight control panel
• Webfaction supports multiple languages includes PHP, Ruby, and Python.
• Webfaction provides quick installer for many popular scripts.
• Webfaction provides you shell access.

What users are suitable for to use Webfaction?

• You just start to learn using the command prompt.
• You want to use command prompt for some task but don’t wish to manage a server.
• You just want to focus on development.
• You just start step into development.

I been using them since 2011 until today I still think they are number 1 in term of “Developer-friendly shared hosting” with the release of new SSD plan, I highly recommend them.

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It’s clearly the pressure from Digital Ocean on both pricing and SSD, when Linode previously upgrade everyone has been asking what about the SSD ? today finally Linode has migrated as a SSD VPS provider and it seem like the SSD they using is datacenter-grade, so far lots of performance report has show that SSD performance is way better then DO.

Other then SSD, there are some other feature upgrade, like using better processor ,40Gbps network and hourly billing, compare the $20 category for both DO and Linode, you can find that Linode is giving better deal now, don’t forget what Linode provided is far greater then DO , for example the managed service , long view, node balancer.

I m a long time Linode supporter , but iI just cancel it last month,  If I know that they going to have this upgrade, I won’t cancel my pla. I just cancel it and move it to dnssimple since I use it more for dns purpose, but I guess I will be back to Linode very soon.

so my advice

if you want to have stable VPS which is above $20 category please choose Linode

if you need a budget VPS which is below $20 and you need it be at Singapore Data center , please choose Digital Ocean.

If you don’t want a VPS , just want to have nice dedicated share hosting, please choose Webfaction.

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Since they are so great , why am I leaving ?

• My pingdom monitor did report some short down time which i believe it happen due to memory issue, this blog seem like consume quite a lot of memory.
• I always want to get my hand dirty on VPS.
• I going to spend more $$ on VPS , cancel this account can reduce my hosting spending.

Now this blog is live on Linode VPS and it seem like it using less memory and having better performance, but the first few day of the server configuration nearly knock me down, I almost want to move back to Webfaction at some point in time, in the end i manage to resolve the memory issue.

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so what i like about Webfaction ?

• custom control panel in stead of cpanel
• lower ping compare to my prev host
• bigger space and bandwidth compare to my prev host
• seem developer friendly
• support ruby, django etc
• no oversell ( although they give bigger space and bandwidth, but they control domain that you can host )

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So these are 3 choice that i think should be quite good, base on research on webhostingtalk.com, teachnorati and google search.

MediaLayer

Pricing for medialayer might seem like on the high site, but don’t forget their focus are on Application Hosting that specialized for PHP & MySQL applications, unlike those traditional linux host that using Apache, Medialayer actually using LiteSpeed , a commercial webserver that optimize PHP application.

WebFaction

Looking a host that support all the latest tools ? be it Rails, Django, TurboGears, Trac/Subversion , i would highly recommend them, if you looking for Django or TruboGears support hosting, lots of these related topic has been discussed in their forum. One of the unique feature is the are “Max total RAM used by long-running processes”

Quote from webhostingtalk

If I remember well, 2 guys working there are in the development team (OSS) of CherryPy, the core component of TurboGears (which is btw one of the “Python on Rails” thing with django, pylons, web.py, … ).

Grokthis

So what so good about Grokthis ? their advance plan is really impressive

Every Advanced account comes with a single dedicated webserver process which users can control and modify. Apache 2.0, Lighttpd, and Zope servers are available.

So far base on my research not many host provide Lighttpd yet and this is the first host i saw provide support on ASP.Net – Mono

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