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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by andersthue » Sun, May 24, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

lewisl9029 wrote: post #70

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…

If you are a silver partner as we are you also get a 100$ plan for azure every month!

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by triangleman » Sun, May 24, 2015, 7:21 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #75

triangleman wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do elaborate, please.

Hell banning serves a purpose. If you see someone who has been hell banned you check their post hostory. Sometimes the hellban is accidental in which case you let the person onow. In other cases it's probably deserved, in which case you either let the person know but remind them of the site guidelines or you don't let them know. This poster has a bunch of posts that shouldn't be on HN.

Then those posts should be blocked, not his good ones. Sorry, but this guy is not abusive. And "hellbanning" is just the creepiest way to moderate a forum.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by dbrianwhipple » Mon, May 25, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

Cycligent.com - layers on top of AWS. Allows for multiple simultaneous versions of an app on the same URL. Also, the easiest deployment I have ever seen.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 26, 2015, 10:14 PM UTC

pspeter3 wrote: post #12

benologist wrote: post #2

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 -…

Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?

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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by ChristianBach » Tue, May 26, 2015, 10:18 PM UTC

benologist wrote: post #16

pspeter3 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?

The final outcome is the same - static files on a cdn - so it won't always matter but netlify lets you: 1) run a build process 2) own domain with automatic ssl and redirecting to w/e www-or-not, https-only etc 3) deploy with git push 4) url rewriting, header inserting, proxying

Exactly, and because of the automatic URL rewriting Netlify will also give you instant cache validation. So when you update your site, unlike most static site hosts, you won't have to wait to see your changes live. But at the same time you get a very cached and very fast site. So best of both worlds.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by bobfunk » Tue, May 26, 2015, 10:19 PM UTC

pspeter3 wrote: post #12

benologist wrote: post #2

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 -…

Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?

We have an article on our blog about some of the differences.

Typically you'll have to do quite a bit of work to get the same performance on S3+CloudFront as out of the box with Netlify, and if you do set up things to be as fast there, you'll suffer from slower cache invalidation.

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/03/06/comparing-netlify-an...

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by vfuse » Wed, May 27, 2015, 7:31 AM UTC

3pt14159 wrote: post #28

brianwawok wrote: post #6

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 just wish there was a single VM that wasn't SSD backed. I write web crawlers sometimes and I usually only have to parse the HTML / JS once into JSON or SQL, but I like to keep the data backed up just in case I need to re-parse it later, or to see the changes between crawls. It's completely impossible for me to even fit it on their $640 / month box. But I love Digital Ocean for everything else.

Take a look at serverhub.com ssd cached vps, $5 per month for 500GB of diskspace.