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Company scrip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
That doesn't seem like a germane comparison. Scrip was given in lieu of compensation - I don't think that describes the deal MS is offering here. Without this program, YC companies wouldn't otherwise be receiving anything of value from MS, would they?
I'm not sure how Azure intends to compete in this space. I've used Amazon, Rackspace, Google Cloud, Azure, and a bunch more. Professionally, for simplicity I'd choose Rackspace or Google. For Scalability and price I'd choose Amazon. For personal projects I love Digital Ocean. I dislike Azure's control panel and VM setup, and find their VMs slow. I'd only really consider them if I planned to implement a project that r…
If you're using MS stack, their web app hosting is really easy to use. One-click publish from VS and auto-running migrations are pretty handy if you want to focus on delivering some prototype fast , rather than mucking around with various admin and deployment tools. I think it's a good selling/entry point for some of their services. Also, do competing services have anything similar to MS's machine learning services?
How long do companies have to utilize the $500K? In the BizSpark Plus days, your company would receive $60K of hosting but could only use it to pay 100% of your bill in the first year of BS+. In the second year, you could use it to pay 50% and then in the third year you were paying full price for Azure. It was a pretty good deal, but if you are already spending $30-60K (or $250-$500 K) on infra in your first year or…
3 Years
This is incredible! 500k is a big amount. Realistically speaking most startups would get free hosting for ~3 years out of this. For the future YC batches - depending on what your company is going to be doing, it would make very little financial sense to NOT host on Azure.
They'll recoup the value of the entire thing, with extra profit, if even just one of the YC startups using it has explosive growth. It's a smart investment. Even without the money, it's a great technology showcase. YC now gets to give its startups the Oscars giftbag treatment. :)
We have a bunch of Microsofties at YC today, but reach out to Steve or me directly at (founders@microsoft.com) if you're a Winter 2015 batch company and for some reason not at YC today. It's also worth pointing out that our $60k offer for YC companies is still around, if you're in one of the older batches.
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> I wouldn't even consider DO due to lack of load balancers and file backup services. You can spin up your own load balancer pretty easily. DO offers backup too. In terms of bang for the buck, you can't really beat DO, unless you're giving your services away for free ...
I've found this to be very untrue - digital ocean offers very poor performance per $ compared to linode in my experience. Linode don't have a $5/month option but if you pay $10/month or more you will get a lot better performance at Linode
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I've found this to be very untrue - digital ocean offers very poor performance per $ compared to linode in my experience. Linode don't have a $5/month option but if you pay $10/month or more you will get a lot better performance at Linode
Sure, but Linode had a number of breaches. I don't think I could trust my business with them.
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...
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Sure, but Linode had a number of breaches. I don't think I could trust my business with them.
Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...
I'm not sure how Azure intends to compete in this space. I've used Amazon, Rackspace, Google Cloud, Azure, and a bunch more. Professionally, for simplicity I'd choose Rackspace or Google. For Scalability and price I'd choose Amazon. For personal projects I love Digital Ocean. I dislike Azure's control panel and VM setup, and find their VMs slow. I'd only really consider them if I planned to implement a project that r…
AWS might be slightly less, but I've found it more complicated to determine pricing. Plus AWS locks you in to specific instances (more or less) whereas Google just automatically applies it, nice and easy.
Of course I'm nervous about using Google for anything, but they have a very impressive offering.