Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

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Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by guzzul » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 12:57 AM UTC

Any hosting suggestions, feedbacks would be very much appreciated.

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by cperciva » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 2:31 AM UTC

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.

Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html:

$ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com jamglue.com shoutfit.com scribd.com weebly.com virtualmin.com buxfer.com octopart.com heysan.com justin.tv iminlikewithyou.com socialmoth.com xobni.com versionate.com adpinion.com anywhere.fm fuzzwich.com bountii.com auctomatic.com disqus.com draftmix.com webmynd.com rescuetime.com reble.fm heroku.com tipjoy.com addher.com 8aweek.com | xargs -n 1 | lam -s 'www.' - | xargs -n 1 host -t a | grep 'has address' | cut -f 4 -d ' ' | xargs -n 1 whois | grep OrgName | sort | uniq -c | sort -srn | sed -e 's/OrgName://'

   8     Amazon.com, Inc.
   6     SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
   4     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
   2     NoZone, Inc.
   1     BitPusher, LLC
   1     Columbus Network Access Point, Inc.
   1     Global Netoptex, Inc
   1     Layered Technologies, Inc.
   1     Performance Systems International Inc.
   1     RackForce Hosting Inc.
   1     ServePath, LLC
   1     Slicehost LLC
   1     Time Warner Telecom, Inc.

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by boucher » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 2:39 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #2

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html : $ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com…

This is a poor list of YC Companies.

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by cperciva » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 2:40 AM UTC

boucher wrote: post #3

cperciva wrote: post #2

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html : $ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com…

This is a poor list of YC Companies.

Tell PG to update the YC FAQ, then. :-)

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by danielha » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 3:34 AM UTC

softlayer ftw (most of the time)

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by brianr » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 3:40 AM UTC

If you're looking to scale (as in, you need at least one dedicated machine and will likely be adding more), I highly recommend Softlayer. Their pricing is reasonable and support is pretty good, but more importantly (for my startup) their setup time is incredible. Adding a low-end machine usually takes about 2 hours and higher-end machines take 4-6 hours. That kind of agility has really been invaluable.

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by rms » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 3:42 AM UTC

boucher wrote: post #3

cperciva wrote: post #2

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html : $ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com…

This is a poor list of YC Companies.

There's the wikipedia list also, which used to have all of them, them several wikipedians insisted on "notability" so it's much less complete than it once was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by brett » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 3:47 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #2

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html : $ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com…

I made a little bit more robust version. Some of the whois calls (like heroku.com) have 2 OrgName lines and some don't have one at all (like weebly.com).

  Amazon.com, Inc.                           7
  	youos.com
  	jamglue.com
  	shoutfit.com
  	socialmoth.com
  	webmynd.com
  	heroku.com
  	8aweek.com
  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.                5
  	scribd.com
  	xobni.com
  	anywhere.fm
  	bountii.com
  	disqus.com
  ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.      5
  	snipshot.com
  	virtualmin.com
  	heysan.com
  	adpinion.com
  	reble.fm
  Hurricane Electric                         3
  	weebly.com
  	octopart.com
  	auctomatic.com
  Internap Network Services                  2
  	loopt.com
  	likebetter.com
  NoZone, Inc.                               2
  	flagr.com
  	thinkature.com
  Peer 1 Network Inc.                        2
  	rescuetime.com
  	addher.com
  ServePath, LLC                             1
  	reddit.com
  American Digital Network                   1
  	fuzzwich.com
  Columbus Network Access Point, Inc.        1
  	versionate.com
  Performance Systems International Inc.     1
  	justin.tv
  Global Netoptex, Inc                       1
  	clickfacts.com
  RackForce Hosting Inc.                     1
  	draftmix.com
  Time Warner Telecom, Inc.                  1
  	textpayme.com
  Logicworks Corporation                     1
  	inklingmarkets.com
  Layered Technologies, Inc.                 1
  	buxfer.com
  Rackspace.com, Ltd.                        1
  	iminlikewithyou.com
  BitPusher, LLC                             1
  	wufoo.com
  Slicehost LLC                              1
  	tipjoy.com

Re: Ask YC: Where is YC News hosted?

Post by brett » Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 3:49 AM UTC

brett wrote: post #8

cperciva wrote: post #2

According to DNS and WHOIS, news.ycombinator.com is hosted at ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. Since "where are YC funded companies hosted" is a common question, I'll answer that too, based on the list of YC-funded companies at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html : $ echo reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com…

I made a little bit more robust version. Some of the whois calls (like heroku.com) have 2 OrgName lines and some don't have one at all (like weebly.com). Amazon.com, Inc. 7 youos.com jamglue.com shoutfit.com socialmoth.com webmynd.com heroku.com 8aweek.com SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 5 scribd.com xobni.com anywhere.fm bountii.com disqus.com ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 5 snipshot.com virtualmin.com heysan.co…

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  domains = %w{reddit.com loopt.com clickfacts.com
               textpayme.com snipshot.com inklingmarkets.com flagr.com wufoo.com 
               youos.com likebetter.com thinkature.com jamglue.com shoutfit.com scribd.com 
               weebly.com virtualmin.com buxfer.com octopart.com heysan.com justin.tv 
               iminlikewithyou.com socialmoth.com xobni.com versionate.com adpinion.com anywhere.fm 
               fuzzwich.com bountii.com auctomatic.com disqus.com draftmix.com webmynd.com 
               rescuetime.com reble.fm heroku.com tipjoy.com addher.com 8aweek.com}

  orgs = {}
  domains.each do |c|
    whois = `host -t a #{c} | grep 'has address' | cut -f 4 -d ' ' | xargs -n 1 whois`
    if org = whois.grep(/OrgName/).first
      org = org.sub(/OrgName:\s/, '').strip
    else
      org = whois.split("\n").first.split("(")[0].strip.sub(/\s+[A-Z\-\d]+$/, '')
    end
    orgs[org] ||= []
    orgs[org]


    
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      I would suggest Linode for hosting and Virtualmin (YC backed) for the panel.
      
    
    
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