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    • April 30, 2015 at 5:23 pm #1084
      Kalle Westerling
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      Hello everyone,

      I’m currently looking for a website hosting service that could host my dissertation project. I’m looking for a cheap (grad student-cheap) hosting service with support for MySQL databases, preferably with remote access w/ an external client (like Navicat or Sequel Pro), and FTP access. Can anyone recommend any services?

      Best,
      Kalle

    • November 18, 2015 at 4:15 pm #1410
      Jonathan Reeve
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      You’ve no doubt already figured this out, but for anyone reading this thread in the future, I’d recommend getting a virtual private server via Digital Ocean. With a VPS, you have sudo access, so you can install FTP, SSH, MySQL, or whatever else you want, provided you’re comfortable entering a couple of commands on the command line. You can even get a whole LAMP setup pre-installed, although only with Ubuntu 14.04. Boxes start at $5 a month, and they’re super fast (SSDs).

      There’s also AWS, and you get a year free there, but it may end up costing more depending on your usage, and the control panel is definitely more complicated.

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