Update 8/1/14: Free DO $10 promo code: 2014SSD
Well thats 2013 nearly wrapped up. In the last 6 months I have been working on some pretty large projects and have come away with a full set of hosted applications that I am using to manage my day-to-day workload. I had planned to get a post written sooner for all the apps I am using with decent free tiers, that will now come in the new year!
One service I do want to get a blog out about now is Digital Ocean. Digital Ocean is the fastest growing VPS provider in the world right now, and every experience I have had with them in the 4ish months I have been using them has been excellent. Before using them, I was 100% shared cPanel hosting. Now I am migrating everything over to self-managed VPS’s at Digital Ocean. Why?? $5/mo, 20GB disk space, enough memory and CPU speed to run NGINX and mySQL very comfortably.
Keep reading for a a bit more info and my first list of free applications that have made my life easier! This list is no where near exhaustive, and over the next month or so I will be writing about a few of the key services I think you should start using if you don’t already!
I have a bookmark folder called ‘To Implement / Research’ that takes about 5 seconds to scroll through, so watch this space!