Re:As a startup where would you host stuff? Dreamhost looks ...
by RyanGWU82 on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:23PM
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I was a Tektonic customer for about a year but I started to have significant problems with them, both technical and billing issues. Email me for the gory details. It was about 2 years ago, so they might have gotten their act together since then.
Once you see a growth pattern, though, you'll want to consider VPS or dedicated hosting. VPS should work well if the ISP can guarantee host performance (CPU, disk, etc).
A few options:
- Amazon EC2. This is cool because you only pay for what you use -- your bandwidth is measured and you're charged for what you actually use, not for a fixed limit. For disk space, it uses Amazon S3, where you also pay for what you use. The Xen machine specs are good enough for most of us. And, Amazon just lowered prices on S3 and EC2. Bad news, though: EC2 is still in limited beta. And who knows when they'll be out of that. :-(
- Sun's deal with startups, which was posted here the other day, looks pretty good, especially the Joyant hosting deal @ http://www.joyent.com/partners/sun/sse. Only "problem" is that you're using Solaris. For some people that is not a problem.
- actual VPS hosting: in my cursory search, I think Teknet unmanaged (http://www.tektonic.net/unmanaged.html) looks pretty good, as long as you're technical enough to handle the virtual server yourself. (And you should be.) Their most expensive pkg gives you more disk space than other providers seem to (80G), and more bandwidth (800Gb) -- to me those are big issues. That's for $100/mo, which is a good deal IMHO. Unix-only, CentOS, Fedora Core, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu.