Linode works great for me, it is cheaper and faster than slicehost, but lacks of backuping your entire disk with one click.
Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
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Sure, but things go out of date, staleness creeps in and new providers or those that have changed their game won't be reflected.
I've no problem with questions like "What's the best..?" being asked again and again. If the answer never changed then fair enough, but thankfully the answer does change and we benefit from discovering what others are doing now.
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#14Linode works great for me, it is cheaper and faster than slicehost, but lacks of backuping your entire disk with one click.
Didn't they just add that feature? http://www.linode.com/backups/
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#15I'm starting an app up now, and I'm using Heroku. It's really as good as it says it is, but obviously it's only a viable choice if you use Ruby.
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#16Both Linode and Slicehost.
I like the Slicehost admin system more than Linode's, but Linode got servers in Europe which is a big plus - and Linode have better specs than Slicehost as well.
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#17Depends.
For more control, I have a VPS on linode. But usually I just publish on webfaction.
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Sure, but things go out of date, staleness creeps in and new providers or those that have changed their game won't be reflected. I've no problem with questions like "What's the best..?" being asked again and again. If the answer never changed then fair enough, but thankfully the answer does change and we benefit from discovering what others are doing now.
Yeah, fair enough a lot of those posts are a bit old (although Linode/Slicehost seem to be dominant still). Removed the link to YC archive, it won't add much value to this discussion.
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#19We have half a rack at a colo in Portland. All our public sites live on a single fast box.
Before that, everything was running off a fast desktop machine sitting behind a Business DSL line at Sam's house. I'd highly recommend that option, since it's so cheap compared to VPS and you get to use as big a box as you like (and as many too). You only really outgrow it when your bandwidth starts to max out the line, which is a lot later than you'd expect.
Twiddla survived it's first few Reddittings in that garage. It was only for SXSW and the simultaneous TechCrunching, RRW'ing, LifeHackering, and Mainstream Pressing that followed that forced our hand in moving it someplace a bit more professional.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
#20If it's Ruby: Heroku
If it's Python: App Engine
Anything else: Linode