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Linode. Support is great, service is great, pricing is good, and seems less "cowboyish" than Digital Ocean and others.
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akinder, it seems your account is "hellbanned" which means nobody can see your posts unless they are logged in and have showdead turned on. (I'm sorry I have to clutter up the discussion with this, but it's the only way I can communicate this news to akinder)
You should check people's comment history before you tell them about hellbanning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8885392 etc etc.
Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice
I want to love Digital Ocean but is there any talk about providing load balancers? It seems like as soon as you want to scale beyond one server you're stuck rolling your own with something like HA Proxy, but you've still got a single point of failure. I guess you have that with a hardware load balancer as well, but at least those things are specifically built to be available all of the time, versus just a piece of so…
Great interface, pricing and service.
Their customer support is also awesome and I've found their support community articles to be thoroughly useful.
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You should check people's comment history before you tell them about hellbanning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8885392 etc etc.
Do elaborate, please.
This poster has a bunch of posts that shouldn't be on HN.
I'm using Azure. Mostly because of this very little known offering called the Microsoft Action Pack subscription: https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/ca/Pages/Membership/actio... It costs around $500 per year, offers your company access to a large number of Microsoft software licenses, free access to seats of Office 365 Enterprise (for hosted email on your own domain, in addition to the software), and most importantly…
Edit: Never mind, I guess? I found it in some fine print on another page. Weird that they don't advertise it more prominently...
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No copy and pasting. 2 Different users posting around the same time. We just had same experiences. Mine was originally all in one sentence but I edited it after and reformatted to be bullet points.
The same points, in the same order, in the same hour.
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Couldn't you potentially push that aspect elsewhere, into a data storage solution like S3 or something (not sure of the cost efficiency, not a huge cloud guy myself). Then you'd just be utilizing the DO server for processing. It would have the added benefit of allowing you to scale your crawling horizontally if you wanted, as all your servers could have access to the same set of data.
Yeah I could, and I currently do - but I don't like to. I want the data on the same network for lots of reasons and I also don't like maintaining two sets of deployment systems. I'd prefer to just use Cloud66 + Digital Ocean and focus on writing code, not setting up and maintaining servers.
I'm using Azure. Mostly because of this very little known offering called the Microsoft Action Pack subscription: https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/ca/Pages/Membership/actio... It costs around $500 per year, offers your company access to a large number of Microsoft software licenses, free access to seats of Office 365 Enterprise (for hosted email on your own domain, in addition to the software), and most importantly…
I'm a current Azure user so this intrigued me, but I don't see anything on that page about monthly credits. Am I missing something? Edit: Never mind, I guess? I found it in some fine print on another page. Weird that they don't advertise it more prominently...
Their marketing in general is sorely lacking seeing as how few of the people who would benefit from it actually know about it.
For anyone else wondering, I managed to find it mentioned on this page (deeply hidden under "Microsoft Action Pack – cloud and on-premises Internal Use Rights licenses" accordion, under the "Management" section in the dropdown, under the "Cloud Services" heading):
https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/pages/membership/inter...
"Microsoft Azure
US$100 monthly credit. Microsoft Azure credit is in addition to current on-premises internal-use software licenses."
Heroku for backend, automatically grow or shrink resources, nothing to maintain, nothing to configure and tons of services available alongside it. Netlify for frontend, it is a static hosting service with some neat features like url rewriting that lets you proxy e.g. /api to a backend without revealing api keys and under the same origin / domain. What really draws me to this is: - no servers or software to maintain -…