Services and products I personally use and I'd happily recommend.

DigitalOcean is a great hosting service. Even if I host my personal websites as static pages, whenever I want to do any web development that requires a cloud-hosted backend, I fire up an instance at DigitalOcean (and it's up in a few seconds!).

Their pricing is very good, they use SSDs on all their machines, they offer great bandwidth, they have an API... OK, you get the idea.

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(That's two months free for their entry-level instances.)

I use Hover to register most (probably all, but I'll have to check to be sure) of my domains. For me, they are the best: They stick to what they do great, and they don't try to cross-sell various other "products". I also like them because they offer "whois privacy" for free, which is a feature I always use but I had to pay for it in other registrars.

Backblaze: The best cloud-based backup I've used. I've installed it on my Macbook Pro and on my wife's iMac and I can be sure there will always be a backup of our data in case of a disaster. And you don't have to do anything, just install it and it will keep backing up your computer in the background.

I've been using it for years and I couldn't be happier.

OK, I know that almost everyone knows about Mailchimp, one of the best email marketing platforms around. I use it to send my newsletters and I've been using them for years for personal and professional projects. I can't recommend them enough!

If you are not a user already, use this link to get $30 in MonkeyRewards.