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Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by oscardelben »

vaksel wrote: post #5
charliepark wrote: post #2

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

Not that surprising, Godaddy is pretty much the amazon of domain registrations. I'm surprised however, that there are 2 companies that are using them for webhosting.

Actually amazon try to make my life easier when I want to by something. Godaddy instead is trying to sell me tons of stuff I don't want.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by jmintz »

worldhello wrote: post #75
jhancock wrote: post #64

HN has had several slicehost vs. linode threads. Comments seems they were an even match (different but even). So why are there no linode users in this list? I'm asking as a new startup eyeing both as potential host.

also, bumptechnologies.com is using linode as DNS. Doesn't linode only offer DNS to domains hosted there?

Correct, both our website and our matching infrastructure is hosted at Linode.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by vicaya »

tdupree wrote: post #33
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 have had good experiences with 1and1.com as a registrar. $8.99 domains, free private whois, and a decent domain management dashboard, YMMV.

google for 1and1, you'll see a lot of complaints there. I had a few bad experience with them. If your renew payment has some issue (mostly CC expiration date etc.) they'll immediately send the account to collection and suddenly your $6.99 or whatever domain becomes a lot more expensive. I refuse to deal with shady business like that.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by cdr »

bravura wrote: post #56
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've been using gandi.net and like them a lot. I'm surprised no one of the YC companies use them.

The one thing I have been unhappy with about gandi is the support - it's been slow (responses that take days to weeks), and the english of the support reps has been poor enough to make it hard to read/communicate.

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by rms »

jhancock wrote: post #66
drusenko wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Who would you recommend that does not see DMCA take-down notices as "their job"?

http://nearlyfreespeech.net -- also cheaper than GoDaddy!

Re: Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

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Post by rms »

borism wrote: post #99
jf wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://laughingsquid.com/accurate-pie-chart/

thank you! morons who down-voted my comment don't seem to be able to understand...

Making it as a joke didn't work on this forum because people generally downvote short jokes they don't get. The rule about humor here that seems to work here is to make sure it's actually funny.
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