Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
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Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#2Do you have the 2009 or 2010 editions available anywhere ?
Would be good to compare to see trends.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#3can we see the very latest for registrars? So we know if the Godaddy migrate cry really worked.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#4Mind blown that:
-Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page)
-So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA)
-That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#5Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
I agree on the SSL & GoDaddy, but AWS? What poor performance?
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#6can we see the very latest for registrars? So we know if the Godaddy migrate cry really worked.
That's already the very latest.
"Generated by Joel on 2012-01-17 using his domain-profiler software"
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#7I have a feeling that the Godaddy portions of those charts are getting much lower by the minute.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#8Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
what's horrible about GoDaddy? I used them for domain registration and DNS hosting, and everything went smoothly. The only annoying part, is how they try to sell additional goodies along the domain registration.
the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#9Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
I agree on the SSL & GoDaddy, but AWS? What poor performance?
He said poor cost/performance.
I.e, he means it has less bang for the buck, compared to something like a VPS on Slicehost.
Which is true (there are several benchmarks in related price ranges), but AWS offers other things, including a vibrant ecosystem and huge scalability opportunities in different zones etc.
A lot of startups can justify the cost, especially as an engineer can cost twenty times more than a couple of machines to start with.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#10The profiler doesn't seem to take HTTP redirects into consideration, incorrectly reporting the web host and SSL details for Vidyard, though I'm sure for a few others too.