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Re:What hosting provider are you using for your startup ? by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @05:54PM (#18501)
The other big downside is that you can't just go in and kill an errant process if your alpha version does something weird.

And you're also in the dark about what those other processes (those not owned by you) might be doing at any given time.

Controlling the entire server as root is just better.

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Re:What hosting provider are you using for your startup ? by jaggederest on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @07:27PM (#18517)
well, to be honest, you get a shell account. I'm hosting stuff on dreamhost, and it's entirely possible to killall my-errant-script when you need to. Just realize that you're a pretty low-priveledge user.

It's a great deal for static file hosting though, if you're a data intensive site as opposed to CPU-intensive site (or even a data-intensive site in addition to cpu-intensive)

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