Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider?

Posted by timothy on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:40PM from the and-a-pony dept.

David Greene writes "After many years of waiting for my provider to upgrade DSL service from the measly 1.5 Mbps I have now, I've decided to go another route. Unfortunately, no other provider in the area (Twin Cities) offers static IPs and permission to run servers. I am looking for a VPS solution to host the public parts of my personal site. What can the Slashdot community recommend as a good, inexpensive VPS provider for personal use? This will mainly be hosting a blog and a couple of Free Software projects (wikis, git repositories, etc.). I would prefer something with KVM so I can manage my own OS install but I am open to other options. Root shell access is essential."

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Re:FDC Servers by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-23 19:49 · Score: 3, Insightful

Idiotic. Asking for recommendations and warnings in a section meant specifically for that is one way you "shop around". Nobody has all the answers and asking for input from a somewhat-targeted crowd like /. isn't lazy hand-holding. It's a modicum of diligence. Furthermore, you have no reason to assume this forum is the only source of information the op is using in comparisons.

And I'm not sure where the government conspiracy / public school rant fits in, but that sounds like a personal issue you should probably see to, posthaste. That kind of angry, judgmental paranoia isn't healthy.