Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? 75
An anonymous reader writes "For many of us our hosting providers are a way to hone our skills as well as run a business. Which provider out there gives the best bang for the buck for a FOSS developer? Virtually everybody provides Perl, PHP, Ruby, MySQL / MariaDB etc. but where can one get easy and cheap access to a stuff like NodeJS and Big Data? Companies such as Pair Networks are great but not quite on the mark with any of their service offerings for somebody looking to test out real world scenarios with these technologies from a hosted stance. Obviously hosting from home is always an option but that has the penalty of administration, backup, DR planning, bigger security footprint etc. and for those of us whose time is balanced between making money and friends / family time that's not very appealing."
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes. I am willing to sign a long-term contract immediately under those terms.
"Provider support" == "hold my dick" (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously - if you're buying anything more complicated than a VPS with an OS installed (which will support ANY service), you're basically paying your provider to hold your dick while you pee. Learn how to deploy your own stuff...