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Hey your website is not finished, you have lots of LOREM IPSUM :)
haha..hence the developing! I really just want some feedback, to see if the business model I have in mind is any good; Ill be happy to make some recommendations in exchange, the OP doesn't have enough for me to help, and would like to ask some more directed questions.
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haha..hence the developing! I really just want some feedback, to see if the business model I have in mind is any good; Ill be happy to make some recommendations in exchange, the OP doesn't have enough for me to help, and would like to ask some more directed questions.
ok, again in your website, looks better, is your service free or subscription based?
I've built a a lot co-lo solutions for clients. They end up being very expensive if you use a "name brand" provider. You are paying for rack space, power, A/C, security, bandwidth, etc, etc. And then anytime something breaks, you need to send somebody in to fix it. If the provider supplies "hands" then they charge heavily for that. Remote consoles are good, but not that good.
With so many providers out there, ranging from bare metal to VPS to PaaS - I find that hybrid solutions work the best. Not putting all your eggs in one basket, etc.
In my experience, the greater the lock-in the worse the service - of course YMMV. I tend towards pay-by-month and stay flexible. Whilst AWS is expensive if used continuously, I find it good for handling spikes. But you do need to architect you solution to move the workload around and that can end up being more bother than its worth.
We've been with OVH for about 3 months and over all the experience has been good. Prices are also very competitive. I'd look there if I were you.
We've been with OVH for about 3 months and over all the experience has been good. Prices are also very competitive. I'd look there if I were you.
What's the one thing you dislike the most about OVH, if you had to choose 1?
The other thing is their billing system. We have ~30 servers with them and have to pay for each one of them separately. It's such a pain. I noticed something yesterday in the web console that I think solves this, but I'm not sure.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is a nice board about hosting.
I've always wanted my own server, but then I discovered Amazon's AWS. It's much much cheaper, and you can scale pretty easily.
If you think AWS is cheaper than ANY bare metal hardware you are out of your mind or simply just an amazon shill.