Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by latch » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:48 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #54

latch wrote: post #31

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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?

I'm just very surprised that more startups don't have people who both enjoy the experience and are good at it.

Also, people make it sound like EC2 is management-free. It isn't. It might take less time, which is important, and the problems might be different, but it isn't a fire-and-forget solution.

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

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Post by jf » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 1:17 AM UTC

DrorY wrote: post #70

how about microsoft's azure? Any stats on that?

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

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Post by swah » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:09 PM UTC

latch wrote: post #71

swah wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, how do you manage your servers?

I'm just very surprised that more startups don't have people who both enjoy the experience and are good at it. Also, people make it sound like EC2 is management-free. It isn't. It might take less time, which is important, and the problems might be different, but it isn't a fire-and-forget solution.

I enjoy it, I just don't see how you could do that and get even close to the price of a VPS. In other words: colocation is expensive for a startup.

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

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Post by swah » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:11 PM UTC

nchuhoai wrote: post #55

mikelbring wrote: post #39

I would be really interested to see what programming stack what all the Y Combinator companies use.

I second that. There are so many possible combinations these days

http://stackparts.com/

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

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Post by keen » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

jf wrote: post #65

keen wrote: post #57

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

Older reports are in the git commit history on the GitHub project for domain-profiler.

Thanks.

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

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Post by kmfrk » Sun, Jan 22, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

jesseendahl wrote: post #61

nirvana wrote: post #60

(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 the…

Gandi.net is a great international registrar. They are based in Paris, France, and took a public stance against SOPA. They are also the EFF's registrar and have a great web interface. Their slogan is "no bullshit™" I have no affiliation with them, aside from being a very satisfied customer.

They don't seem to have any two-factor authentication, which is a big deal-breaker to me - compared to Name.com. They don't reply to inquiries about it on Twitter, too.