Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by Skyline » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 5:13 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #115

buro9 wrote: post #9

Linode. Found their machines to be faster than Slicehost, the service to be superb, they have datacenters around the world that you can select to be your location (I chose London, UK as my users are here), and recently they upgraded the RAM for free in all VMs they run. Hosting with them has been a delight. Slicehost are a very close 2nd in my opinion, but Linode are #1 currently.

I used SoftLayer for a few years. They're a great dedicated server provider. Perhaps even the best in unmanaged. But.. I downgraded to Linode to save some money and was amazed at how performant even their small VPSes are. I could run what I ran on a $200 box at SoftLayer for about $80 spanning 2 VPSes at Linode, no trouble.

+1 for SoftLayer for unmanaged dedicated servers. We've been using them for all of our dedicated servers since April 2007.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by Skyline » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 5:16 PM UTC

meroliph wrote: post #49

If it really needs to scale: AWS EC2 For DNS: Dnsmadeeasy. For low latency content delivery: Akamai For dirt cheap makeshift content delivery: several servers from 478east For servers that need lots of RAM(>24GB) on the cheap: webnx

+1 for http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ . We've been using them for DNS since February 2007.

http://dyn.com/dynect is supposed to be pretty good too.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by jtheory » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 9:18 PM UTC

bradleyland wrote: post #83

mark_l_watson wrote: post #71

First, I'll mention what I no longer do: rent servers by the month from places like 1and1 or Rackspace. You probably get good value, but at an admin cost. What I do use: 1. VPS from a quality hosting company. I use RimuHosting and people I know also like Linode. I like the extra level of managed server support for backup, maintaining RAID devices, etc. 2. AWS - love AWS. Some people have problems with performance of…

Ditto for Rimuhosting.

I'm on Rimuhosting as well; I've been using them since 2006, and it's been a pretty smooth ride (and prices have dropped along the way as well).

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by thespy » Sat, Aug 07, 2010, 4:25 PM UTC

how can you compare hosting companies when you do not have ALL server specs? Really, how?

For example, Linode does not disclose the type of disk drive they use nor slicehost disclose theirs. Hosting compaies always have a thing or two to hide. And trust me if it is cheap there may be something hidden out of plain view.

I use http://www.servint.com and they are really transparent. They use RAID 10 SAS 15K RPM disk drives, and run their VPSes on Dual Xeon Quad Core processors. Free cpanel, free daily backups. Linode can beat them in pricing but guess what? Check the server specs. I asked Linode what kind of disk they were using in an email and they said they cannot disclose the information!!! Servint is open and they show you everything they use. Free cpanel, free backups. What else do you want.

Lots of this hosting companies, have those as addons, and you end up even paying more. People concentrate too much on base pricing. Please get the addons you will need then calculate final price.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by rlpb » Sun, Aug 08, 2010, 10:05 PM UTC

Brainix wrote: post #33

Google App Engine. :-) Download the SDK. Write your app in Python. Click one button, and deploy it to Google's cloud.

What options do you have if you decide to stop using Google? Are there alternative server implementations available?

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 12:05 AM UTC

rlpb wrote: post #135

Brainix wrote: post #33

Google App Engine. :-) Download the SDK. Write your app in Python. Click one button, and deploy it to Google's cloud.

What options do you have if you decide to stop using Google? Are there alternative server implementations available?

There was AppDrop - http://github.com/jchris/appdrop - but it doesn't look like it's being maintained anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by jread » Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 8:34 AM UTC

mrkurt wrote: post #130

jbyers wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VPS.net resells Akamai at shockingly low prices.

Their Wiki says it's Highwinds: http://www.vps.net/wiki/cdn-more-info

VPS.net sells both highwinds and Akamai. Akamai is $100 for 1 TB. However, they only offer origin pull, so performance will be slightly degraded versus using their NetStorage.

http://www.vps.net/forum/public-forums/technical-discussions...