Poll: Which cloud host do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by axod » Wed, May 06, 2009, 10:01 PM UTC

keefe wrote: post #35

axod wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. >> "...and pay by the hour" If you have money to burn.

Being able to pay by the hour massively, massively reduces the capital expenditure required when launching a public site? You can launch on a relatively cheap $75-$150 a month and then if you get Slashdot/Digg your code can automatically scale and only pay for the extra capacity when you need ... that's kind of the point of the service. Check out Bezos at startup school last year talking about animoto : http://omnisi…

Some languages/frameworks etc scale better than others. Making that choice is very important. $75-$150/mo is quite a lot really unless you're getting lots of traffic.

I can see the case for this sort of scalability if your traffic is wildly unpredictable - eg 1 visit one day, 100,000 visits the next - but I think that's rare.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by Andys » Wed, May 06, 2009, 10:03 PM UTC

jcapote wrote: post #17

I prefer linode over slicehost because they let me run 32 bit systems as well as 64 bit ones.

Why is this important to you?

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by purana » Wed, May 06, 2009, 10:19 PM UTC

Linode.com thumbs up

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by SwellJoe » Wed, May 06, 2009, 10:25 PM UTC

Andys wrote: post #52

jcapote wrote: post #17

I prefer linode over slicehost because they let me run 32 bit systems as well as 64 bit ones.

Why is this important to you?

64 bit binaries consume dramatically more memory, thus, unless you have more than 4GB of available RAM, running a 64 bit system is simply stupid.

Re: Poll: Which cloud host do you use?

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Post by SwellJoe » Wed, May 06, 2009, 10:39 PM UTC

jkrall wrote: post #7

JereCoh wrote: post #4

I use Joyent. I would argue that Media Temple is not cloud hosting (and it's "grid" is always down). If Mosso gave OpenSolaris as an option, I would switch to it.

@Jerecoh: I use Joyent too... and have been very pleased with it. But, I have to admit that we didn't spend a lot of time evaluating all of the other cloud options out there. Why did you choose Joyent?

I think he already told us: "If Mosso gave OpenSolaris as an option, I would switch to it."

I'm surprised to see it, since the majority of folks prefer Linux by some margin (certainly the userland is better on Linux). But Solaris has some killer features in the cloud space, and Joyent are doing a great job taking advantage of them. Solaris Zones are quite a bit more efficient than Xen, and quite a bit more stable than OpenVZ/Virtuozzo and vservers (which use roughly the same model as Solaris Zones).