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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by paolomaffei »

jasonkester wrote: post #19

We have half a rack at a colo in Portland. All our public sites live on a single fast box. Before that, everything was running off a fast desktop machine sitting behind a Business DSL line at Sam's house. I'd highly recommend that option, since it's so cheap compared to VPS and you get to use as big a box as you like (and as many too). You only really outgrow it when your bandwidth starts to max out the line, which i…

except when you DSL line goes down.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by paolomaffei »

buro9 wrote: post #9

Linode. Found their machines to be faster than Slicehost, the service to be superb, they have datacenters around the world that you can select to be your location (I chose London, UK as my users are here), and recently they upgraded the RAM for free in all VMs they run. Hosting with them has been a delight. Slicehost are a very close 2nd in my opinion, but Linode are #1 currently.

And they don't have any contract. Some real root servers companies still have setup fees or contracts, linode, slicehost etc don't.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

#43

Post by jasonkester »

paolomaffei wrote: post #41
jasonkester wrote: post #19

We have half a rack at a colo in Portland. All our public sites live on a single fast box. Before that, everything was running off a fast desktop machine sitting behind a Business DSL line at Sam's house. I'd highly recommend that option, since it's so cheap compared to VPS and you get to use as big a box as you like (and as many too). You only really outgrow it when your bandwidth starts to max out the line, which i…

except when you DSL line goes down.

In two years of self-hosting, we had a few minor downtime instances, but nothing to do with the DSL:

http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/08/redundant-is-never...

You run the same risks hosting at home as you do in a datacenter. Things can go down and it's your job to put them back up. There's no greater chance of the ISP cutting off a Business DSL line that happens to point to a residence than to a business downtown.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by sl_ »

ohashi wrote: post #31
metachris wrote: post #24

I can recommend http://hetzner.de/en for root servers in Germany. For example the EQ-4 package (for €49 per month): * Intel Core i7-920 Quad-Core with Hyper-Threading * 8 GB DDR3 RAM * 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD (Software-RAID 1) * 5 TB transfer; €6,90 for an additional TB * 100 GB backup space for free, nice control interface (incl. reboot), NS control, good support

WOW that's cheap. You don't say anything about service/support though?

The competition in this market is quite strong in germany, there are 5 major companys offering basically the identical dedicated server service. The servers are not virtualized, therefor you usually have to commit to longer running contracts or higher setup fees.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by binarymax »

DrJokepu wrote: post #45

I wonder if anyone could recommend a VPS service that runs Windows (too)?

Dare I say it, but if you need to run Microsoft in the cloud then Azure is probably a good bet these days. Also, if you don't already have MSDN and want to run a Microsoft stack you can get a BizSpark license and that comes with some good freebies.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

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Post by xyzzyb »

I'm on Dreamhost and it's been fine for my limited sites. They're cheap, give me ssh access, and I can install whatever I need. I let them handle my registration as well, nice and easy.

I've used my primary domain to variously host standard HTML/php, a perl-based wiki/blog, a ruby on rails blog, and most recently a django blog.

I've also use it to host a private git repository, do ssh tunneling, etc.

Not bad for $8 a month.

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