Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Hinrik » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 7:21 AM UTC

jasonkester wrote: post #43

paolomaffei wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

except when you DSL line goes down.

In two years of self-hosting, we had a few minor downtime instances, but nothing to do with the DSL: http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/08/redundant-is-never... You run the same risks hosting at home as you do in a datacenter. Things can go down and it's your job to put them back up. There's no greater chance of the ISP cutting off a Business DSL line that happens to point to a residence than to a business downto…

I like the irony of the fact that that site is down so I can't read the article titled "Redundant is never redundant enough".

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

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Post by sl_ » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 10:46 AM UTC

trin_ wrote: post #78

avar wrote: post #53

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Would you mind enumerating what 5 companies those are?

i dont know which 5 he means but i guess: http://www.hetzner.de/ http://www.server4you.de/ http://www.strato.de/ http://www.hosteurope.de/ http://1und1.de/

Exactly :)

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

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Post by EvanK » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 4:33 PM UTC

Slicehost for my personal website (plus $5 extra a month for snapshot backups). At work, we use Rackspace dedicated servers & managed hosting...its expensive, but it means we don't need to hire a sys-admin

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

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Post by mqmouse » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 5:04 PM UTC

metachris wrote: post #24

I 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

If you are a company outside of the EU (like the US) make sure you mention that you are VAT exempt so they don't charge you for that.

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

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Post by matthewphiong » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 6:03 PM UTC

I'm a Rackspace Cloud customer until I found this post. After reading much of the comments, mostly +1 to Linode, I decided to give it a try.

The service is superb, instant activation and the speed made me jump ship.

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

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Post by mrkurt » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 7:29 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #117

mrkurt wrote: post #93

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

What does this mean? That Akamai commonly provide free services to high profile, high traffic sites that need their levels of throughput? Or..?

It really just means Akamai's expensive and you should find someone else to do CDN stuff. :)

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

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Post by slowpoison » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 8:42 PM UTC

Brainix wrote: post #33

Google App Engine. :-) Download the SDK. Write your app in Python. Click one button, and deploy it to Google's cloud.

Google App Engine has a few big services built on top of it: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-sites-built-on-top...

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

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Post by jbyers » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 3:42 AM UTC

mrkurt wrote: post #126

petercooper wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this mean? That Akamai commonly provide free services to high profile, high traffic sites that need their levels of throughput? Or..?

It really just means Akamai's expensive and you should find someone else to do CDN stuff. :)

VPS.net resells Akamai at shockingly low prices.

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

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Post by samratjp » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 6:54 AM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #102

mark_l_watson wrote: post #71

First, I'll mention what I no longer do: rent servers by the month from places like 1and1 or Rackspace. You probably get good value, but at an admin cost. What I do use: 1. VPS from a quality hosting company. I use RimuHosting and people I know also like Linode. I like the extra level of managed server support for backup, maintaining RAID devices, etc. 2. AWS - love AWS. Some people have problems with performance of…

Heroku is also great for Sinatra apps.

heroku + github + sinatra + rb = super fast prototyping. Love Heroku!

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

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Post by mrkurt » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 2:52 PM UTC

jbyers wrote: post #128

mrkurt wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really just means Akamai's expensive and you should find someone else to do CDN stuff. :)

VPS.net resells Akamai at shockingly low prices.

Their Wiki says it's Highwinds: http://www.vps.net/wiki/cdn-more-info