Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#1

Post by cao825 » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 10:53 PM UTC

I have been using HostGator shared hosting as a low cost solution to host some of my start up ideas over the past year or so. Unfortunately any time a site gets a decent amount of traffic, my account gets disabled for server load or something of that nature. For those of you that outsource your hosting, what sites have you used that you like? My main requirements are PHP, SQL, ruby, and python.

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#2

Post by daleharvey » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 11:16 PM UTC

http://linode.com its a vps so a little more manual, but full control over your stack

http://www.linode.com/?r=bde45b7ba8346eec9a56d7276f536caea70...

is a referral link :)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#3

Post by seointexas » Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 11:38 PM UTC

Media Temple is pretty sweet, and they have a friendly user interface.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#4

Post by dibarra » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 12:20 AM UTC

Personally, I have a dedicated server, there's plenty to be had out there for a relatively cheap price. ($50ish range, they're out there, I'm hosting at http://securedservers.com)

A dedicated server is a good opportunity to learn about server administration too!

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#5

Post by Dramatize » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 12:58 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #2

http://linode.com its a vps so a little more manual, but full control over your stack http://www.linode.com/?r=bde45b7ba8346eec9a56d7276f536caea70... is a referral link :)

I second Linode.com

It's the first real VPS I've used and it's been pretty straight forward to learn. We're using it to host http://rumplo.com

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#6

Post by vipivip » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 1:18 AM UTC

Serverbeach folks have great infrastructure.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#7

Post by gopi » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 2:12 AM UTC

Rackspace

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#8

Post by shadowz » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 2:34 AM UTC

Liquid Web or Storm on Demand (Liquid Web's cloud solution)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#9

Post by carbocation » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 3:21 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #2

http://linode.com its a vps so a little more manual, but full control over your stack http://www.linode.com/?r=bde45b7ba8346eec9a56d7276f536caea70... is a referral link :)

I second this. Furthermore, it's cheap enough that there's no reason not to have dedicated instances for your DB server and your HTTP server.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?

#10

Post by JonLim » Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 2:55 PM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #2

http://linode.com its a vps so a little more manual, but full control over your stack http://www.linode.com/?r=bde45b7ba8346eec9a56d7276f536caea70... is a referral link :)

Seconding (or thirding?) Linode.

We use it to host much of PostageApp. (http://www.postageapp.com)