An article about how I paid less and got more with a VPS, and I am no longer needlessly overpaying for my domain either. My last service at aspone.cz , which I am moving to wedos.cz .
For next year, I have a place to host my web projects.
I migrated my domain sunamo.cz from aspone.cz to wedos.cz , after checking their website to see how much it would cost me there. In terms of the range of services offered, both are similar across their individual plans when it comes to Windows Server.
My use of any Windows has been reduced to a minimum. The only thing that kept me tied to Win was that I knew it and I had not managed to properly learn the administration and principles of Linux.
Now nothing is stopping me.
Since Wedos regularly offers a 50% discount for the whole year, it cost me 220 CZK, which is already a noticeable difference, even with the Profi package, which costs twice as much as the VPS itself. Compared to Aspone, it offers daily backups and double the disk space (instead of 40 GB at Aspone ; of those 40 GB, 20 GB is taken up by Win Server 2012 alone, while Debian ISP needs only 2.6 GB).
Although I still have the VPS at Aspone paid until the end of November, at least I have enough time to test how everything will work on Linux before I release it to the world.
I will also set up some ASP.NET web hosting there, but it will never be the “full experience” you get on Windows, and that is exactly the point. I want to reorient myself toward a free and open development stack.
Even the domain price has dropped: Aspone wants 290 CZK for a renewal, Wedos 151 CZK. No wonder development in MS technologies is going downhill when they are not competitive on price at all and the advantages that developing for them used to have they have thrown away themselves.