Poll: Which cloud host do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by juliend2 » Thu, May 07, 2009, 1:51 AM UTC

I use Linode but i read the SliceHost doc when i need to set up my node. The best of both worlds!

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by tasaro » Thu, May 07, 2009, 4:07 AM UTC

rhhtdc wrote: post #58

i can NEVER get linode on the phone...it's an infinite freaking loop...

it's not an infinite loop. leave a message and we'll return your call.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by christefano » Thu, May 07, 2009, 5:27 AM UTC

I'm abstaining since I use the services of 3 companies included in the poll and 1 that isn't (Rimuhosting).

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by pg » Thu, May 07, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC

Looks like someone gamed this poll. 36 of Linode's 93 votes came from newly created accounts. (For comparison, 1 of Amazon's 78 did.)

I think in future I'll ignore votes of newly created accounts in polls. For now I'm going to manually subtract them.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by wheels » Thu, May 07, 2009, 8:01 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #54

Andys wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this important to you?

64 bit binaries consume dramatically more memory, thus, unless you have more than 4GB of available RAM, running a 64 bit system is simply stupid.

There are cases where you need more than 4 GB of virtual address space even if you're not actively using 4 GB of physical memory.

Our application, for instance, uses mmap heavily and pretty easily tears through 4 GB of address space while comfortably running on a machine with less RAM.

One other nitpick I'd add there is that 64-bit runtimes consume drastically more memory -- mostly meaning interpreted languages, JVMs, etc. Compiled C, C++, etc. fare better since they usually make use of the stack more widely rather than having everything running through three levels of indirection (thus using lots of 8-byte pointers) up in the heap.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by manualsmania » Thu, May 07, 2009, 8:52 AM UTC

http://www.manualsmania.com

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by A83 » Thu, May 07, 2009, 8:56 AM UTC

I'm using Slicehost right now but plan to switch to Mosso as soon as they support billing of clients outside of USA.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by manualsmania » Thu, May 07, 2009, 9:00 AM UTC

btw, I think you should add GoGrid to the list...

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by balabinba » Thu, May 07, 2009, 10:09 AM UTC

We've been migrating from theplanet to Mosso for a month and cloud hosting concept is great. Mosso's live chat service is very responsive and helpful. I chose it for its partnership with Limelight CDN service and the service reputation by Rackspace.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by shad_rack » Thu, May 07, 2009, 2:47 PM UTC

raquo wrote: post #5

ErrantX wrote: post #2

Slicehost is ok, their pricing structure ramps up very fast though. MediaTemple is the one I would recommend to someone for a single (or just a few) site instance. If they needed multiple servers with complex config (or just want to lay them out in your own way) either EC2 (multiple clients model: we have 150+ instances working as clients) or MediaTemple CX (complex hosting - we are in the process of purchasing a 200…

IMHO Mediatemple is terribly overpriced* even wrt Slicehost - Their 40GB/512MB/1.5TB plan costs $100/mo for example. * - I've no idea how much CX costs though

the plan you are referring to is not 'cloud' but dedicated virutal. (mt)'s cloud is only $20 per month.