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Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by latch »

kolkey wrote: post #13
latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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

Interested to hear about AWS cost/performance too!

There's been a lot of comparison of AWS's cost per performance compared to more bare-metal cloud solutions or dedicated servers.

It's been covered a lot of times...here's one that just appeared on HN a few days ago: http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-...

You can easily get 10x the performance for the same cost.

I'm not saying AWS isn't awesome...I'm saying it's much, much more expensive, and I'm surprised that startups full of tech people don't manage their own servers.

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by andrewjshults »

latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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

Not sure about now, but for the summer 2010 batch, Amazon handed out a good chunk of AWS credits (enough to cover the hosting costs of most early stage startups for a while).

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by wlll »

mattmanser wrote: post #5
latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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?

The IO performance of EBS is terrible.

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by xxqs »

whyleyc wrote: post #23
xxqs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's quite bad for the company reputation, but I still don't see any argumentation for they were horrible before SOPA

That's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does business. Just because a company is technically competent doesn't mean people want to do business with them.

ok, point taken, thanks :)

any advice for an alternative registrar with free DNS hosting? Preferably one with native IPv6 reachable DNS servers (which is not the case at godaddy)

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by zizee »

latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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

It's worth noting that the people hosting on Heroku have been lumped into the AWS stats. Which is even more expensive performance wise, but has added benefits over self maintained servers.

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by nicholasjbs »

latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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 can address two of those points (one for my company and another for YC companies in general):

- SSL: We're on that list as HireHive.com, which had a login and used to have an SSL cert, however, we shut it down (i.e., it just redirects now) and now run Hackruiter.com and HackerSchool.com, where our cert is now. We never had logins online without a proper cert. The data from OP is wrong.

- So many YC companies use Amazon because Amazon gives large cash credits to YC companies meaning it's effectively free to use for the first couple years. Also, many of us are built on services built on AWS (e.g., we use Dotcloud).

EDIT: Typo.

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by vidar »

nicholasjbs wrote: post #37
latch wrote: post #4

Mind 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 can address two of those points (one for my company and another for YC companies in general): - SSL: We're on that list as HireHive.com, which had a login and used to have an SSL cert, however, we shut it down (i.e., it just redirects now) and now run Hackruiter.com and HackerSchool.com, where our cert is now. We never had logins online without a proper cert. The data from OP is wrong. - So many YC companies use Am…

I'd say thats money well spent by Amazon to get all the up and coming companies onto their cloud.

Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition

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Post by pospischil »

Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is).

It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after so many fled GoDaddy for namecheap a few weeks back.

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