FWIW, draftmix.com was a product of Blue Frog Gaming, Inc. We are a YC funded company. We don't run draftmix anymore, but we are still very much alive. Our main products do still use Softlayer, but we've got some stuff on Amazon too.
Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
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Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#42Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
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Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#43Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is). It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after so many fled GoDaddy for namecheap a few weeks back.
OK -- the data is definitely out of date for at least one company (ours, custora). I wonder how common this is? Perhaps the cache was not cleared before generating the output?
I forked the repo, ran it on custora.com, and eNom was (correctly) listed as the registrar.
I'm re-running the full ycombinator list now, and will update when finished.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#44Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
I can address two of those points (one for my company and another for YC companies in general): - SSL: We're on that list as HireHive.com, which had a login and used to have an SSL cert, however, we shut it down (i.e., it just redirects now) and now run Hackruiter.com and HackerSchool.com, where our cert is now. We never had logins online without a proper cert. The data from OP is wrong. - So many YC companies use Am…
Aside from being admitted to YC, is there a formal process to request AWS credits for budding startups...?
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#45Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is). It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after so many fled GoDaddy for namecheap a few weeks back.
If you're talking about custora.com from my check (which only a registrar can do) you transferred registrar to namecheap at this time:
2012-01-03T05:16:42.0000Z
So yes the data was run before that date.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can address two of those points (one for my company and another for YC companies in general): - SSL: We're on that list as HireHive.com, which had a login and used to have an SSL cert, however, we shut it down (i.e., it just redirects now) and now run Hackruiter.com and HackerSchool.com, where our cert is now. We never had logins online without a proper cert. The data from OP is wrong. - So many YC companies use Am…
Aside from being admitted to YC, is there a formal process to request AWS credits for budding startups...?
I have no idea, sorry. If you know anyone who works there, I'd try that route. Otherwise, you could try asking for a deal here: http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/aws-sales/
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does business. Just because a company is technically competent doesn't mean people want to do business with them.
ok, point taken, thanks :) any advice for an alternative registrar with free DNS hosting? Preferably one with native IPv6 reachable DNS servers (which is not the case at godaddy)
Gandi http://www.gandi.net/ has a pretty good reputation, with free DNS hosting. No IPv6 reachable nameservers, however. If you want IPv6 reachable DNS servers, Hurricane Electric offers free DNS hosting https://dns.he.net/; they are a big supporter of IPv6 and so offer a variety of free services to help get it off the ground.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
that's quite bad for the company reputation, but I still don't see any argumentation for they were horrible before SOPA
Stories like the following were more common than they should have been:
http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#49Are PaaS providers like Heroku appearing as "Amazon" in the web host column? Would be interesting to see this broken down further if that's the case.
Agreed. I'm working on updating domain-profiler to better detect PaaS providers like Heroku, GAE, and Azure. In the meantime, you can see who's using Heroku by looking for domains that have an SSL certificate with a certificate type of "*.heroku.com"
That's only if they are using the free wildcard ssl addon. If they have their own cert and domain name (most do) then they won't show up like that.
Re: Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition
#50Mind blown that: -Some ~40% (stupid pie chart) don't have an SSL cert, but almost all have login/registration page (4 out of 4 that I randomly picked had a login/registration page) -So many people use GoDaddy as a registrar (they were horrible before SOPA) -That startups use AWS despite its poor cost/performance
what's horrible about GoDaddy? I used them for domain registration and DNS hosting, and everything went smoothly. The only annoying part, is how they try to sell additional goodies along the domain registration. the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)
the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)