Need a good VPS host...
 

May need a new VPS who can handle traffic spikes.

Go ahead...send me those links and tell me what you like about them.

Digital ocean is my favourite - SSD speed, awesome backups and snapshots when you fuck something up. Choose a data center in a city or country you link. Droplets pre-configured with Apache, WordPress etc to make setup very fast.

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They are who I trust with my sites now.
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Ramnode is good too, little more bang for your buck but maybe not as reliable.

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How much traffic spikes do you get ? What script are you running ?

How much is the average daily visitors and page views ? Have you done any optimization in your script and on the VPS ?

Also how much is your budget and what location is most of your users from. In which location do you want the VPS to be located in ?

Please answer the above questions and it will be easier for us to find you a good VPS host

Check my sig. Been with them for many years (and a lot of other GFY members too). They have decent VPS plans, good pricing and nice control panel :thumbsup

My fav one is Mojohost.

I have a VPS with M3 and it's handled massive spikes with ease over the years. https://www.m3server.com/

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Please post a little more about your setup and I can give some advice about what would work best. Often it's a good idea to keep your database on a different node etc.

With the right configuration any VPS can handle spikes of traffic.

Digital Ocean and Linode are where everything I have is hosted.

+1 for digitalocean

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Set up a Digital Ocean droplet as a load balancer and do the web serving from a few small droplets. Pretty easy to accomplish and will handle voluminous traffic spikes no problems.

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Yes, DigitalOcean rocks! Alternatively you could pick Linode as they also offer full support, management, load balancing etc...

Some of my favorites:

Leaseweb - Rock solid VPSes with 4TB bandwidth on their lowest plan, great network and support. Their VPS prices start at $4.95/month for 1core/1gb/40GB disk/4TB bandwith

Ramnode - Quality OpenVZ and KVM VPSes, Ramnode always gets a ton of good reviews as they have been fantastic over the years and Nick is a great guy.

VULTR - In my opinion they beat out Digital Ocean in almost every way.

OVH - Their new 2016 line of VPSes are cheap as hell yet stable and come with their anti-ddos pro protection for free.

Liteserver.nl - They have kickass KVM and OpenVZ VPSes in the Netherlands, great support too.

HostUS - I have a $3/month KVM VPS from them located in Psychz Ashburn,VA location and it's been awesome so far.

For DDoS protection I use (usually do a reverse proxy via Nginx along with Cloudflare):

Trabia (formerly Hosteasy.eu) - Voxility with custom protection
SecureDragon - CNServers DDoS Protection
Ginernet - They have OpenVZ plans that come with an extra Voxility IP.