Recommended Hosting for PostGIS Application

Question

I have developed a PHP + PostGIS application and I need to place it somewhere. Can anyone recommend me web hosting Which will support Postgres + PostGIS databases? I found several places to host the application, but I would like to read about your impressions . Many thanks!

Answer 1

If you can afford ~ ​​49 euros per month for your application, I would recommend using this service: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4 p>

We currently use 8 of them, and they seem pretty cheap (for a dedicated server) and reliable. and you can install whatever you want, including PostGIS :)

Answer 2

Here are some useful web links:

The "official" list for PostgreSQL hosting: http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/

Hosting specifically with PostGIS: * MyGeoCloud: http://beta.mygeocloud.com/ * CartoDB: http://cartodb.com/

Yours, S.

Answer 3

I have several of these MediaTemple servers (if you pay per year, this is only $ 20 / month for the initial configuration), and it has worked so far, plus you can update / lower the configuration (storage space and RAM) literally in 5 minutes. I installed pg 9.1 beta and postgis 1.5.3 on them and it works fine.

But my favorite feature today is backups of an instant snapshot in which it saves a snapshot of the entire system (database status, file system, running processes) and can restore it in 2-3 minutes, which is very useful for you " finetuning your server, because even if you completely break everything, you still have a panic button to restore everything to working condition.

I have not tested it yet, however New EnterpriseDB cloud tools could make Amazon EC2 an interesting option (I am using S3 for daily backups now).