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$500k of Azure credit for YC startups
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Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#92Microsoft is also giving YC startups three years of Office 365, access to Microsoft developer staff, and one year of free CloudFlare and DataStax enterprise services. Free Office365 and CloudFlare are probably the best part of this announcement, since they are "easily migrate-able" by most startups. Migrating from DO/AWS/Linode isn't fun and productive. Even though they are negligible (in terms of money and value) th…
"Migrating from DO/AWS/Linode isn't fun and productive." Huh? You can run more or less the same type of services on Azure that you can on AWS. I wouldn't even consider DO due to lack of load balancers and file backup services.
> 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 ...
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#93Is there anything in the fineprint to stop the startups from reselling those credits? Passing them on at a 20% discount would make for a sweet ~$400k runway extension.
Interesting question.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#94Microsoft is also giving YC startups three years of Office 365, access to Microsoft developer staff, and one year of free CloudFlare and DataStax enterprise services. Free Office365 and CloudFlare are probably the best part of this announcement, since they are "easily migrate-able" by most startups. Migrating from DO/AWS/Linode isn't fun and productive. Even though they are negligible (in terms of money and value) th…
I'm not very keen on office365. Our new ceo force migrated us to office365 from gmail and our experience so far is not par with gmail. Very lacking or even unusable ui, not working or frustrating filters, very bad experience with imap clients unread email appearing read. And the very best part; there is no select all :) And the shameless plug: Also your idea about selling migration services is very interesting. If an…
Having used both from an admin and a user perspective, Gmail is definitely better all-around.
Gmail is not flaky the way O365 is. Random outages with no explanation/contact from support until days after remedy...are no fun.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
3 years of technical investment is pretty much enough to stop you leaving unless something goes very wrong. This $500k is a small price to pay for a client who goes on to be the next AirBNB or Dropbox. Even just the prestige of having a company like that to draw on for testimonials would justify the spend. However... For a startup to choose to build on Azure they'll need staff with MSFT stack experience. 5 or 6 of th…
You can run Linux on Azure.
Does the Linux image run virtualized over an MS kernel? I often laugh running MS code in a VM over __nix because when the Guest crashed, my host OS is still running. I cant imagine running a __nix Guest over a MS Host though.
I dont have much experience with MS servers, as I like to get things done, but how are they when it comes to stability?
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#96Bitcoin mining startups?
What a colossal waste of electricity though, think about the impact mining leaves on the world, is it worth the digital gold?
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#97I'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…
I compared mid-size VM on Azure and AWS, and I got almost 50% better hdd and cpu perf on azure.
And with Win Server, I run ASP.NET and PHP and Node, it works nice. Db (pg) is on linux.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#98Company scrip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#99I'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?
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#100I hope all startups are made aware of Microsoft BizSpark. You get a pretty spectacular line up of freebies. And freebies that stay free even after you graduate. Free copes of Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Office, etc. It's damn near everything. A++++ would recommend.