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http://copperegg.com/
Yet another monitoring app. Copper Egg combines real user monitoring, generic metric logging, server monitoring and maybe other stuff(?) into one application. Pricing starts at $19/month. Not unreasonable.
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http://www.bytemark.co.uk/index
UK based hosting provider, includes a managed hosting offering. Hat tip Steve Kemp, he works for them.
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http://www.elastix.org/
Elastix combines Asterisk, HylaFAX, Openfire and Postfix and others into a "unified communication server" that handles telephone calls, email, instant messaging, fax, and more.
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http://www.enki.co/
Managed cloud computing. A slicehost server for about $50 is roughly equivalent to $113 with enki. Not outrageous for a managed service, depending on how deep the management goes.
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http://www.fit-pc.com/new/
fit-PC is a tiny, embedded system mini PC. Around $300 they can be used as dev servers and other handy little things.
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http://www.johncompanies.com/
Hosting company from the same people as rsync.net. Reasonably priced, probably ultra reliable, and well suited for privacy, etc.
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http://www.lowendbox.com/
Really useful site with some outrageously cheap VPS deals. Very useful, well organised, no search / filters, but offers expire I guess, so reading a few pages is ok.
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http://www.servint.net/
Managed VPS and dedicated server hosting from ServInt. They are carbon positive. Used by Scot Hacker at Birdhouse hosting.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh_(software)
Mobile oriented alternative to SSH, handles connection roaming, updates the screen live waiting on backend. Interesting on crappy internet.
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https://phpfog.com/
PHP cloud hosting. Very slick architecture. Custom managed EC2 nodes deployed behind varnish caches and nginx load balancers. Fairly reasonably priced.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall
Very simple guide to using ufw to create firewall rules. `ufw allow ssh/tcp && ufw allow http/tcp && ufw allow https/tcp && ufw enable && ufw status` done. :-)
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https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
Pretty interesting hosting service that's pay as you go, where you pay only for what you use. Pricing starts near 1c per day. They also believe strongly in freedom of speech.
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https://www.system76.com/
Laptops, desktops and servers with Ubuntu pre-installed. Some beautiful machines on the desktop front, pretty standard heavy lifting on the laptop front, but reasonable price points.
