Overall Satisfaction with OpenShift
Right now, it is being used for a single website that has previously been hosted either personally, in EC2, or on Bluehost over the years. I picked Openshift because it had the capability to scale up, but I don't get charged when use is low, which is the case a majority of the time.
- No work seems to be required in order to scale up.
- Free service when use is low.
- I love the ability to login with SSH!
- Data storage seems a bit costly in comparison with the other services, but maybe I am just cheap.
- I have been able to cut my hosting costs almost to zero without sacrificing the ability to handle higher loads down the road.
- I haven't received messages about the site being down since I started using OpenShift. I don't have to worry about fixing things myself when/if the network or some hardware fails.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Bluehost
EC2 seems really cheap until you realize how many hours there are in a year, so it is expensive for something that runs 24/7. And scaling is a challenge (and even more expensive) to set up for.
Bluehost has very reasonable prices, but it feels so cluttered whenever I login to cPanel. Thank goodness they have an SSH option also, but I remember having to send a picture ID or something and pay extra for the privilege.
Bluehost has very reasonable prices, but it feels so cluttered whenever I login to cPanel. Thank goodness they have an SSH option also, but I remember having to send a picture ID or something and pay extra for the privilege.