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

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Post by bnoordhuis »

timeuser wrote: post #90
lzw wrote: post #73

App Engine, for everything. I've been using Unix for 3 decades and at this point I see any time spent administering or setting up servers as time wasted when I could be adding value to the product. App engine gives me all the administration and half of the scalability solution I need, so I spend my time adding value. I am amazed that so many of you have root. I'm guessing it comes because you value the control, and d…

What is everyone doing for data backup when using App Engine?

You can use the bulk up/downloader: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploading...

The admin interface has an export option too, if memory serves.

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

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Post by mrkurt »

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

Here's a general rule of thumb: If you're paying for Akamai, you're paying too much. :)

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

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Post by limmeau »

I use Webfaction for my small stuff (and have no big stuff). You get a SSH account on a Linux server and can run any web server program behind their reverse proxy, as long as it fits into your plan's memory limit.

http://www.webfaction.com/

I've experienced their customer service as friendly and competent.

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

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Post by mark_l_watson »

startupcto wrote: post #91
herrherr wrote: post #20

If it's Ruby: Heroku If it's Python: App Engine Anything else: Linode

Heroku is horribly slow, I wouldn't recommend it. Go with Linode, slice host or Rackspace cloud

I have seen this comment before, but I believe it is only valid for free accounts which get swapped out after a short period of no incoming requests. I think that for any paid plan, your app is always loaded so there is no loading request delay. You might want to give it another try with the lowest cost plan and see if your results are different.

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

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Post by vyrotek »

sriramk wrote: post #76
svnv wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use azure for our webapp. Works great so far, although the azure-website for managing server deployments is not very good. Also, you can use powershell and the azure tools for VS2010 instead of the azure-website.

I'd love to hear more about what you don't like about the site (email address on my profile page). Btw, I ran the feature team that built the APIs that powershell and Visual Studio use. So if you don't like those, that's probably my fault. :)

We also use Azure. Deploying from Visual Studio is pretty slick. The biggest problem in general with Azure deployments is the speed. Perhaps its normal, but its pretty annoying to wait 15+ minutes to deploy and wait for a Web and Worker role to be 'Ready'

Its also VERY annoying that only 1 Live account can have permission to sign in and manage the Account and Services. Yes, I know you can do some stuff with the certificates to allow others to deploy, but its a huge pain. Especially for a startup with a few people who are trying to learn and manage our account.

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