Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions • Hacker News Board

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by pg » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:26 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #23

sant0sk1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/surprising/depressing/ GoDaddy's "used car lot" salesmanship makes me loathe the company. I'm in process of transferring all my domains elsewhere.

Likewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind? [edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.

It's common for people to vote up a question they would also like to have answered.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by donw » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:26 PM UTC

jf wrote: post #22

donw wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had great service from GoDaddy as well, and it's a lot cheaper to buy a wildcard SSL cert from them ($199/year) than pretty much everywhere else I've looked.

I figured that price was the main reason why people buy SSL certificates from GoDaddy. (Speaking of which, it's worth checking retailmenot.com for GoDaddy discount codes: I recently bought several wildcard certificates from them and was able to get discount codes for 10-30% off.)

I'm about to buy some certs for my new company, and we love saving money. Thanks!

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by tdupree » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:28 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #23

sant0sk1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/surprising/depressing/ GoDaddy's "used car lot" salesmanship makes me loathe the company. I'm in process of transferring all my domains elsewhere.

Likewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind? [edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.

I have had good experiences with 1and1.com as a registrar. $8.99 domains, free private whois, and a decent domain management dashboard, YMMV.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by kogir » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:28 PM UTC

charliepark wrote: post #2

It's surprising how many cells of that table say "GoDaddy."

For a while at Loopt we considered becoming a Tucows reseller and only holding our domains, but it wasn't worth the effort.

Whoever bought our first domain used GoDaddy we just stuck with it. We've seen no pressing reason to switch.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

gcheong wrote: post #28

Wow, nothing on Google App Engine or Azure?

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Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by jf » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

run4yourlives wrote: post #29

Could somebody please explain why you would use a DNS provider that is not your web host? I've always just used the host's DNS servers for my domains, but I'm curious as to the decision making of others... are there real concerns that would lead you to separate these services?

Among other reasons, using a 3rd party DNS provider allows you to deal with reliability issues that your web host might have. (For example, if your web host goes down and you have low TTLs, you could put your site on a different provider or show visitors a "down for maintenance" page.)

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by jseifer » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:33 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #23

sant0sk1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

s/surprising/depressing/ GoDaddy's "used car lot" salesmanship makes me loathe the company. I'm in process of transferring all my domains elsewhere.

Likewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind? [edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.

I got tired of GoDaddy a while ago and moved all of my domains to NameCheap. They've been great, although private registrations cost a couple dollars after the first year.

Edit: http://www.namecheap.com

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by pubbins » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:33 PM UTC

jf wrote: post #22

donw wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had great service from GoDaddy as well, and it's a lot cheaper to buy a wildcard SSL cert from them ($199/year) than pretty much everywhere else I've looked.

I figured that price was the main reason why people buy SSL certificates from GoDaddy. (Speaking of which, it's worth checking retailmenot.com for GoDaddy discount codes: I recently bought several wildcard certificates from them and was able to get discount codes for 10-30% off.)

I ran into the same issue. Not a fan of godaddy, but you're going to pay considerably more for a wildcard certificate elsewhere. The 2 year + coupon is a great deal.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by potatolicious » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

jseifer wrote: post #37

potatolicious wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise. Have a fairly budget-price but not-so-shady registrar in mind? [edit] WTF guys, why am I being modded up? I asked a question without providing additional insight - this doesn't deserve +points.

I got tired of GoDaddy a while ago and moved all of my domains to NameCheap. They've been great, although private registrations cost a couple dollars after the first year. Edit: http://www.namecheap.com

Glad to hear. I bought a SSL cert from NameCheap last night and was pretty happy with the experience (no bullshit, no rampant cross-selling and tons of "uncheck to prevent getting screwed" stuff on forms.

Good to hear they're also good for domains. I think I'll be going with them.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by danielrhodes » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

drusenko wrote: post #14

kevindication wrote: post #4

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I've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though. Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?

If you are running a user-generated content site and you get to a large enough size, it's near certain that GoDaddy will shut off your domain. We had a very, very close call with Weebly where someone from GoDaddy called at 10am on a Saturday, didn't get through, and started shutting off the domain. If I hadn't called right back it would have been disastrous. For some reason, GoDaddy sees it as their job to police the…

Were they checking the authenticity of the registration info? If so, that's them enforcing ICANN rules. They usually don't do that though unless somebody requested it.