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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 trevorstrohman »

latch wrote: post #31
kolkey wrote: post #13

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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…

You can rent 20 AWS on-demand large instances for less money than a junior engineer. If you don't need a lot of machines and AWS saves you any time at all over dedicated hosting, then it's worth it.

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

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Post by tnorthcutt »

xxqs wrote: post #21
whyleyc wrote: post #20

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Ok, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

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

They were. I've dealt with them on one occasion (had one client insist on using them as a host/registrar), and they are technically incompetent. We've had numerous outages with this client's site, and had one problem that their technical support staff were simply unable to solve after numerous phone calls (they ended up blaming it on the site, which was running on WordPress - hardly an oddity). It ended up being a very simple problem/solution, which I discovered after spending an hour or so researching it.

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

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Post by swah »

latch wrote: post #31
kolkey wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Ok, how do you manage your servers?

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

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Post by keen »

jf wrote: post #26
xxqs wrote: post #8

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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 :)

This topic comes up every time I run this report. The reasons why people don't like GoDaddy are covered in both of the previous discussions on this report. Well worth reading! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080469 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746386

The older reports are broken, for me at least. They show the same stats as this year's report.

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

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Post by xxqs »

lambda wrote: post #47
xxqs wrote: post #35

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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)

Gandi http://www.gandi.net/ has a pretty good reputation, with free DNS hosting. No IPv6 reachable nameservers, however. If you want IPv6 reachable DNS servers, Hurricane Electric offers free DNS hosting https://dns.he.net/ ; they are a big supporter of IPv6 and so offer a variety of free services to help get it off the ground.

thanks, I'll give Gandi a try with my next domain. I am using some free services from Hurricane Electric, particularly an IPv6 tunnel and also a dynamic DNS after dyndns.com pissed me off.

for production domains, I would still prefer a DNS hosting that is somehow paid for (with godaddy it was included in the registration price).

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

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Post by xxqs »

maukdaddy wrote: post #50
xxqs wrote: post #8

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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 :)

the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :) If that's what makes you choose a registrar then you need to seriously grow up. Attitudes like this are why we have so many problems with sexism in the tech world.

no, actually I've seen one of the ladies too many times during the crankygeeks.com shows, and that annoying advertising... probably it worked? :)

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

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Post by nirvana »

(We're not YC funded, but we did get into Startup Chile. Just wanted to share some options for people.)

Here's the choices our startup has made:

EMAIL: After much investigation, we decided to host our email in Iceland. This is due to the strong privacy laws in Iceland, and wanting a hosted solution outside the USA (and which had technical support, unlike google)

We chose: http://1984hosting.com/ Pretty happy with them, though occasionally their site will give us a response in icelandic when trying to admin stuff, keeps things exciting! (they're helpful though and do support via email in english.)

HOSTING: We're planning to go fully dedicated with Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

Since our product will require a fair number of nodes and significant processing, the price and performance advantage of Hetzner vs. something like Amazon is very dramatic. (I haven't used Hetzner yet, but from my investigations they get positive remarks)

DOMAINS: For years all of our domains have been handled thru Moniker. If you're going to go with a US registrar, don't use Go Daddy or any other consumer registrar. Moniker is set up for domain portfolios and they have very strong security policies and no BS.

I'd prefer to have this part of our business be offshore, however, given the propensity in recent years for US judges to rule domains be handed over without just cause. However, I've not found a good international Registrar.

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