Ask HN: Where should I host my startup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

pimterry wrote: post #15

If you're talking about hosting your startup's landing page, stick with Github Pages: https://pages.github.com/ . Free, super quick & easy, with custom domains to boot. Personally, for almost any product I start here. Even if you do need server-side infrastructure for the product, hosting all your marketing pages on GH pages is probably the right choice - they're going to be better at reliably hosting and serving sta…

Since Github Pages doesn't support SSL/TLS certificates for custom domains, I don't think anyone should be using it. It's simply outdated technology.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

badsock wrote: post #6

imaginenore wrote: post #2

Cheap: browse through the listings on lowendbox.com, you will find some amazing deals for both VPS and dedicated servers. Reliable: AWS / Rackspace / DigitalOcean / Google cloud / basically any famous one. When you're starting, it's probably better to rent a cheap VPS server. If you start growing fast, you can always move to the cloud. But modern cheap VPSs are quite powerful. I have 7 websites running on one that co…

Has DigitalOcean gotten better for reliability? I took my company off of them about 2 years ago specifically because of their frequent downtime.

I've been using for more than 2 years with 100% uptime.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by nodesocket » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

Depending on your application and stack, you may want to consider Google Cloud or AWS. While I really like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, etc they lack production features like a centralized firewall and IAM security. Additionally AWS and Google have a slew of complimentary services so maybe you don't need raw physical machines. For example, instead you may be able to use Elasticache, RDS, and Elastic Container Service and don't have to manage any servers.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by ing33k » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

you should check out free tier offered by Amazon

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Also do apply for things like BizSpark https://bizspark.microsoft.com/

if you have a static marketing page, you can also host it for free ( almost ? ) on https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by jobvandervoort » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #21

pimterry wrote: post #15

If you're talking about hosting your startup's landing page, stick with Github Pages: https://pages.github.com/ . Free, super quick & easy, with custom domains to boot. Personally, for almost any product I start here. Even if you do need server-side infrastructure for the product, hosting all your marketing pages on GH pages is probably the right choice - they're going to be better at reliably hosting and serving sta…

Since Github Pages doesn't support SSL/TLS certificates for custom domains, I don't think anyone should be using it. It's simply outdated technology.

You can host static pages on GitLab.com for free, with TLS certificates and custom domains.

You can use _any_ static site generator.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by d0m » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

Personally had bad experience with linode.. I'd go with aws.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by smoyer » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 6:01 PM UTC

komaromy wrote: post #8

chias wrote: post #3

If "$10 / month" counts as cheap in your book, check out a Linode VPS. I've been using them for a couple years now, and I have been extremely satisfied (although I've upgraded to a beefier VPS as my project has grown in popularity). Another good VPS option is DigitalOcean, which offers a smaller (and cheaper) plan for $5 / month. There are also a lot of shared hosting providers out there that will sell you cheaper sp…

If you're considering Linode, you should read up on their history of security incidents and make sure it's a risk you're willing to take.

I've been with Linode for over six years and the only security incident I've have was my own fault. Follow the guides for securing new VPSs - I recommend that SSH be configured to disallow root logins and only allow certificates for authentication. There are many great guides available.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by smoyer » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC

Redhat offers free services (you pick which ones) via their OpenShift [0] platform. Under the covers it's Docker and Kubernetes.

[0] https://developers.openshift.com/getting-started/index.html?...

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by shanecleveland » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 6:09 PM UTC

Webfaction. I don't do anything with heavy traffic, but very happy with reliability, performance and features.

Re: Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?

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Post by andrewl-hn » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

No one has mentioned Heroku yet. Starting at $7 they are a bit more expensive than DigitalOcean, but with that extra $2 you'll get their platform, their tooling for deploying the app, their database backups. Adding other services later on is also easy with their addons. By choosing Heroku you can save hundreds or thousands of dollars in ops costs over a course of a few months.

The hosting cost may go up quickly, but if your business is successful you can either absorb it, or spend time and money to migrate away. They run on AWS, so picking the same location means you can run mixed infrastructure (part on Heroku, and part on AWS) without a latency hit. Thus, a hybrid configuration is very viable.