The Five Stages of Hosting

Post by waitwhat » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 8:41 AM UTC

edu wrote: post #87

yaix wrote: post #80

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My hoster of many years charges for a similar setup 60 EUR, "unlimited" bandwidth (whatever you can pump though 100Mbit within a month), RAID10, etc, 75 GB external backup, as a managed server. And at another big hosting company you get an even bigger package for 45 EUR, not managed though. However, I remember that hosting in the US is surprisingly expensive for some reason, and has been for many years. Don't know wh…

What company are you using?

Post by alinspired » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 9:18 AM UTC

sopooneo wrote: post #53

LogicX wrote: post #32

This is an amazing article. I intended to write such a blog article myself. One aspect I intended to cover (and will now do so here) is that of cost. I get very frustrated by cash-strapped startups which from day one are expecting to be 'web-scale' and need to turn up machines at the drop of a hat. Lets get real. I HOPE you have to worry about that... much, much later. I'm quite pleased you started your article menti…

I think you are implying that cloud servers are different than Virtual Private Servers. I am new to this, so forgive my ignorance, but how are they different? Is it just that effectively that with standard cloud server options, you can spin up new/multiple instances, whereas with a VPS, you've just got the one? Or is it more about how it is all handled in the background?

Post by philwelch » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 9:30 AM UTC

LogicX wrote: post #72

statictype wrote: post #69

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Then why do so many startups (and even established businesses like reddit and Netflix) use EC2?

Reddit and Netflix have entirely different models at their 'web-scale' They actually DO need to be able to scale servers up and down based on demand-usage, time of day, growth patterns, etc. For them, the extra EC2 cost is negated by being able to spin up an extra 400 instances in the evenings, and turn them back down after everyone goes to sleep. Under the dedicated server model they'd ALWAYS need to have an extra 4…

Post by dasrecht » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 9:48 AM UTC

johnsea wrote: post #89

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What company are you using?

It may be Hetzner (Germany). They have a 45 € root server with i7 quadcore, 16 Gb RAM, 2 x 3 Tb Disk (link: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produ... ). I'm very content with what they provide, even good/friendly support.

Post by chc » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 9:59 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #85

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Then why do so many startups (and even established businesses like reddit and Netflix) use EC2?

Reddit very much regretted using Amazon EC2 EBS disks for their site according to their blog. It killed their site for almost entire days, many times, for a long time. It's taken them months to undo that decision.