wow nobody using engineyard! I guess the YC stipend would only cover one month :)
Updated YC Company Hosting Stats
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#22I wonder why no YC companies are on Google App Engine.
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#23Not a YC company but I have sites on Slicehost and FDC Servers. Slicehost was nice for setting up my first Linux server - now that I've done it, I'll be using FDC as it's hard to beat FDC for the price/bandwidth.
If you can stay under 3 TB/month 1and1 also has some decent servers for the money.
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#24Interesting reviews at Web Hosting Geeks:
http://webhostinggeeks.com/
*edit--damn no one likes sarcasm around here
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#25Thanks for compiling that list. I didn't know about SoftLayer. I noticed the list mentions Justin.tv hosts itself. Aren't they built on Amazon EC2 and S3?
Your information is out of date. We outgrew EC2 a while ago.
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There are several. Slicehost has been doing Xen hosting longer. Linode is older, but they were using User Mode Linux (not nearly as good as Xen) for a long time. Slicehost got the mindshare by getting to Xen hosting first. Slicehost is local to all their data centers. Whether in St Louis or Dallas/Ft Worth, their employees actually work there. Linode's employees all work in South Jersey, 2 hours from their Newark dat…
> trying to get your site to handle traffic on a 3GB server and a 15GB server. I find that I always hit cpu limits way before memory becomes an issue.
same here. i've been profiling this past week trying to see if i can trim cpu cycles or whether that's just how the game is played.
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Slicehost support is top notch -- also getting started on a box is absurdly simple with PickledOnion's tutorials.
True. PickedOnion's tutorials are really helpful, especially if it's your first time setting up a "real" server. I later went with Linode for my personal websites, since they're a bit cheaper, and I felt more comfortable with setting up a box now.
I went with linode and used the slicehost tutorials for setup. All good. I definitely feel more loyalty to slicehost, but I was already set up on linode and it is cheaper, so momentum kept me there.
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Surprised me as well. I don't know of a metric where slicehost beats linode.
Slicehost support is top notch -- also getting started on a box is absurdly simple with PickledOnion's tutorials.
SH are definitely good people, but are they better than Linode in terms of support? That's difficult to determine and quantify. The only support request I filed was asking if they'd be adding 32 bit instances any time soon, and they said no;-)
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> trying to get your site to handle traffic on a 3GB server and a 15GB server. I find that I always hit cpu limits way before memory becomes an issue.
same here. i've been profiling this past week trying to see if i can trim cpu cycles or whether that's just how the game is played.
The problem is template rendering, string handling is a (relatively) expensive process. I found utf8'ing my entire workflow (instead of decoding to unicode then reencoding to utf8) drastically affected performance (using python).
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#30Does Mosso cloud mix into Rackspace? I've been quite happy with my Mosso Xen VPS.
I pay like $26/mo. for my 512MB VPS. It's $0.03/hr which is $21.90/mo. but you pay $0.22/GB out, and $0.08/GB in. I don't use a whole lot of bandwidth though.