Servers

[bennyboy]

Ah. I don't know of any VPS that has that kind of support, the whole point is you manage your own server. Even Azure seems to have free basic support (which is documentation and self-help guides) whereas if you want someone to actually give you support, you need to pay up.

Honestly my advice is to play around with it, it's $5 a month, and they bill by the hour, so even if you spend a week trying it out, you're not going to be billed full price.

I'm not 100% sure but it seems to me MS will support you for free during your trial month.  So if you have problems setting up, installing things, and so on, they'll be there for you. I did have a couple moments with tech support, and the quality of service gave me a tiny orgasm. I was like "Oh. . . THIS is how the other half lives." It's hard to go back once you've seen that world.

I'm curious about the performance of these VPS options.  When I chose Azure, it was because I'd had a really bad experience with other options in Korea.  I was looking at a dedicated server (like an actual rack in a warehouse that I was going to admin or pay someone to admin), but I stumbled on Azure as an option and I thought I'd give it a spin.  It works so well that I decided to migrate my old site to Azure permanently.

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I think he's referring to shared hosting.

Well, that's pretty much how I read "virtual" as well.  You're going to be sharing actual hardware with other users: internet bandwidth being a big one, actually. My experience with sharing anything in big internet companies is bad. Really, really bad. Like-- Godaddy bad!