Linode. The only issue is my app creates subdomains on signup, and it takes about 5 minutes on linode to become active.
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#22I've got dedicated servers from the french companies OVH and Online.net (previously known as Dedibox) since four years. The price is cheap including unlimited free reinstalls and a rescue mode. The service is great IMHO. I've also had one server from LeaseWeb but they are more expensive and comes with less services.
I'm interested in cloud hosting like Amazon EC2 or VPS like SliceHost, especially because I want to have my servers in more than only one country but so far all the solutions I found were not as great and/or cheap than the ones I use.
Here are some links for specific low cost servers:
http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/ - OVH, great and cheap little servers!
http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/rps_offers.xml - OVH, great too but no disks, they use iSCSI which is better because it removes hard drive failure risks but with bad disk performance costs.
http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/comparatif-des-offres-de... - Online.net, the other good french hosting company for dedicated server.
BTW until now most of my servers were hosted at my home but I'm moving to another country, this will not be possible anymore, too bad! Independence is one of my top priority so I don't want to be stuck with any hosting company if I find better somewhere else, like in my next basement!
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
#23Linode. The only issue is my app creates subdomains on signup, and it takes about 5 minutes on linode to become active.
Couldn't you use wildcard cnames?
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#24I can recommend http://hetzner.de/en for root servers in Germany. For example the EQ-4 package (for €49 per month):
* Intel Core i7-920 Quad-Core with Hyper-Threading
* 8 GB DDR3 RAM
* 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD (Software-RAID 1)
* 5 TB transfer; €6,90 for an additional TB
* 100 GB backup space for free, nice control interface (incl. reboot), NS control, good support
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#25Linode. The only issue is my app creates subdomains on signup, and it takes about 5 minutes on linode to become active.
Why don't you catch-all subdomains in your web server and handle them on application level?
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#26I use Slicehost and am very satisfied, although I always hear wonderful things about Linode.
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#27Linode for me.
Linode doesn't say how much CPU you get, where other hosts (like vps.net) tell you. Isn't that an important info?
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#28I used to use Slicehost, but moved to Linode once they launched their backup service. The admin UI isn't as pretty, but IMO the service is better (and they have VPS hosts in London, which shaves a few milliseconds off for me).
At Fantastic, we recently moved from Slicehost to The Rackspace Cloud. We're pretty impressed with them so far.
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#29Slicehost for my personal box. AWS for gazehawk.com (crazy architecture, looking forward to blogging about it)
Used to be on VPSLink (was one of their first customers) but they sold recently and everything quickly went to shit. Don't think I'd recommend them anymore.
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#30I'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.
And shortly, node.js: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...