Web hosting providers (OT)

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Hi,

I'm thinking about the option to deploy a new server for testing speed at
https://www.speedtest.net/ . Do you know which hosting providers you
recommend with inexpensive but strong servers? I'm using Digital Ocean, and
in the past I used CloudSigma, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. What's important
to me is the price and the good performance, and good network speed. I read
on https://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers and checked the minimal
hardware they want (https://support.ookla.com/hc/en-us/articles/234578628:
 Recommended Quad Core 8GB 2Gbps 1GB) - do they mean a dedicated CPU or can
I used shared CPU like in Digital Ocean? And how much will such a server
cost me? And by the way, I'm looking for locations where they don't have
many servers, such as Geneva or Seoul. But it all depends on the cost also,
I might prefer a cheaper server in a location where they have many servers.
What do you recommend?

I currently have a few servers hosted at Digital Ocean in Amsterdam, and I
might use one of them - but it will need to be upgraded in memory and CPU.
I think it's not a good idea to use my production server, but I'm thinking
about using my staging server. Do you think it's a good idea?

The operating system I feel most comfortable with for servers is Ubuntu
(LTS).

By the way, I'm thinking maybe to buy a new computer, but I'm using
MS-Excel and Word, so I guess I'm stuck with Microsoft Windows. By the way
it's a genius way to promote Windows - by making people to need Word and
Excel (and Powerpoint). And I'm also using TortoiseGit.

Please don't recommend to me alternatives for Word or Excel which are not
the real thing (been there, done that).

I have bash shell on Windows and I can do many things from the shell, so I
feel like using Linux even on Windows.

Thanks,
Uri.
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uri at speedy.net
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