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You could also just rent the smallest server at hetzner.de for 59 EUR/mo and have them add a 128G SSD for 44 EUR/mo. That way you pay 103 EUR/mo (about 134 USD) and skip a lot of headache.
This is the 2nd day in a row I've heard of hetzner.de. If they remove their one-time setup fee of 149 eur I might give them a try.
you are wasting valuable resources for things that might not happen. Just spend $10/mo on a shared host and you'll be good to go.
if your product is in such a high demand, that it crashes from the traffic...then you can quickly spend a few bucks on a dedicated server. Until then preparing for millions of users is just stupid, since chances are, you'll only get a few hundred users that first week/month
It's fine until your garage burns down / floods, or someone digs through your street's connection. Those things are unlikely, but even with a backup you're going to have pretty horrendous amounts of downtime. You could lessen the impact by having some off-site secondary system ready to go at any moment, but then at that point you might as well be renting a server.
Over an year this costs you about $1200 for bandwidth + $500 for hardware + electricity/service. Let's say an even $1600 or ~ $135 / month. $135 / month buys you two 1.5GB Linode instances or one 2GB Slicehost instance (I use Slicehost but they seem to be much more expensive compared to Linode). The reason I see renting VPSs, especially at the beginning, as a smart thing is that you are postponing the actual hardware…
It's fine until your garage burns down / floods, or someone digs through your street's connection. Those things are unlikely, but even with a backup you're going to have pretty horrendous amounts of downtime. You could lessen the impact by having some off-site secondary system ready to go at any moment, but then at that point you might as well be renting a server.
You could also just rent the smallest server at hetzner.de for 59 EUR/mo and have them add a 128G SSD for 44 EUR/mo. That way you pay 103 EUR/mo (about 134 USD) and skip a lot of headache.
It's not necessarily a bad idea, but I'd probably not do it again now that cheap VPSes are a commodity. Outsourcing the physical management allows me to not worry about assembling hardware, backups, power outages, network outages, burglary, fire and flooding. Neither will the server leave users hanging every time someone on the network downloads alot of data.
Unless you're doing some serious processing, a cheap Linode VPS should hold you over until you're profitable enough to upgrade to some real hosting.
Over the long run, a hosting company should be able to keep your website up and running "in less time", "higher quality", and "cheaper" than you can.
If your business can host websites more efficiently and effectively than a hosting firm, maybe you are in the wrong business and should become a hosting company for other firms?