# Comparing hosting providers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [October 20, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034 "2018-10-20T01:18:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![admecoach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/admecoach/32/120087_2.png) [@admecoach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/admecoach)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034/12 "2018-10-21T03:32:23Z")

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Digital Ocean is great for taking a test run, but get into trouble self managing this and all the time you’ll invest to get it tuned to your needs and $100 per month starts sounding really good. I had an instance go bad and the backup wasn’t even working to restore.

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