Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#1

Post by zam » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:20 PM UTC

How much do you spend on Hosting per month for you personal OR part-time OR startup project?

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#2

Post by ErrantX » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:22 PM UTC

Pretty much everything personal (aroundf 10 sites) is thrown on a £70/year shared hosting package - which works just fine.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#3

Post by bgnm2000 » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:31 PM UTC

I spend $80/Month I have 3 different accounts with different hosts which are good for different things. I'm going to be consolidating soon though..hopefully

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#4

Post by gstar » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 12:40 PM UTC

For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, though.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#5

Post by jnaut » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 1:00 PM UTC

working on a product POC, using Rackspace cloud (formerly mosso), paying around USD 11 - 15 per month for a very own instance of Jaunty but limited/shared machine resource with some minimum thresholds guaranteed.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

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Post by bgnm2000 » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 1:02 PM UTC

gstar wrote: post #4

For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, though.

how do you like slicehost?

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

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Post by hedgehog » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:56 PM UTC

$12/mo Xen slice from prgrmr for web & source

$200ish a month from Amazon for hosting for some consulting work (although I don't pay for it)

$0 for a few apps on App Engine

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

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Post by gstar » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:15 PM UTC

bgnm2000 wrote: post #6

gstar wrote: post #4

For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, though.

how do you like slicehost?

The service itself is great, but it's getting a little bit pricy for what it does.

I really like that you get a web-based terminal for the console session, if you need one.

The host I use in the UK (Tagadab) doesn't have that - but they have absolutely brilliant phone support.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on Hosting?

#9

Post by cullenking » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:23 PM UTC

We have http://ridewithgps.com hosted on our own co-located server with http://colostore.com for $50 a month. It's a 2U server with dual 700w power supplies, setup on two separate breakers. Server was setup within 4 hours of UPS dropping it off last December, and we haven't experienced any downtime or network issues.

Colostore is the best Zack or I have found so far, however, they are not the people to use if you require much help or a managed solution. Also, it looks like they have jumped up the price of co-location since then to $70 a month, which is still pretty good for the level of service they offer (2TB a month, 5 IP addresses). I would still happily pay that amount for their service.