Ask YC: What web hosting service do you use?

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Post by sangguine » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 9:29 PM UTC

I am wondering what web hosting service you all use.

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Post by notauser » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 9:58 PM UTC

For personal stuff I use Tektonic who are pretty good. The price is very competative, tech support exists, and they accomodate special requests with no particular hassle (e.g. please make sure my two VPSs are in different data centers).

Last time they had a problem was a few years ago (server hardware failure) and they bothered to give updates frequently and rapidly opened up new temporary hosts for customers who had backups to restore from. Pretty good service for a 'no support' plan.

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Post by mstefff » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:06 PM UTC

http://www.liquidweb.com/?RID=mikestefff">Liquidweb

Yes it's an affiliate link but they are truly amazing. Prices are great and come with full support and management. Highly recommended. Have never had an easier experience.

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Post by mstefff » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:06 PM UTC

mstefff wrote: post #3

http://www.liquidweb.com/?RID=mikestefff ">Liquidweb Yes it's an affiliate link but they are truly amazing. Prices are great and come with full support and management. Highly recommended. Have never had an easier experience.

I guess html isn't allowed...

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Post by adoyle » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:15 PM UTC

I used interland.com (bought out a while ago) and serverpronto.com, but now I use business grade Verizon FIOS in my basement with a Mac Mini on a 2 hour UPS. Uptime has been 100% over the last year (except for the reboots I did for software updates).

I used to run a lot of mailman lists and have discovered the hardest thing to do is to get a set of "clean" IP addresses. Serverpronto was tough, they were blocked a lot. Interland was ok. My Verizon address block (I get 5 static IPs) is not on any RBLs but they sit in the middle of what are generally dynamic IPs so some big sites (esa.int, notably) reject email from my system.

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Post by bmatheny » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:20 PM UTC

We use The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com) along with EC2 from AWS. I've used The Planet for about 7 years now, for both business and personal use. Good prices, decent support and a top notch network.

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Post by cjoh1111 » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:28 PM UTC

Slicehost. Love them.

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Post by brk » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:39 PM UTC

Me :)

1U Dedicated server (BYOS) for $50/mo.

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Post by smanek » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:41 PM UTC

I use vpslink. I paid for two years in advance, and got a vps with 256MB of Ram for ~$10/month (about half the cost of slicehost).

Had no problems with them so far.

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Post by smanek » Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 10:43 PM UTC

mstefff wrote: post #3

http://www.liquidweb.com/?RID=mikestefff ">Liquidweb Yes it's an affiliate link but they are truly amazing. Prices are great and come with full support and management. Highly recommended. Have never had an easier experience.

Yes, but it's expensive as hell. $60 a month for a VM with 384 MB Ram. That would be $20-$30 a month anywhere else.