Re:Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon an...
by swombat on Monday July 14, 2008 @03:07AM
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We're with EngineYard. I consider them to be cheap, for what they offer. I've never had a better host, ever. They are extremely responsive, 24x7. All communications are with expert geeks (no dumb first-line support). They know their stuff inside out.
EngineYard are cheap if you compare it to the other available options of that calibre:
1) Do it all yourself.. to set up a similar set-up, with the performance, scalability and redundancy of their infrastructure, would cost much, much more both in hardware and in time.
2) Other comparable offerings from non-rails specialists like Rackspace actually added up to a whopping £6k/m - that was for the smallest possible solution for Rackspace.
So yeah, EY are cheap. You don't use them for hosting your blog, you use them for hosting rails apps like kongregate or scribd - in that context, a few hundred bucks a month is peanuts.
EngineYard are cheap if you compare it to the other available options of that calibre:
1) Do it all yourself.. to set up a similar set-up, with the performance, scalability and redundancy of their infrastructure, would cost much, much more both in hardware and in time.
2) Other comparable offerings from non-rails specialists like Rackspace actually added up to a whopping £6k/m - that was for the smallest possible solution for Rackspace.
So yeah, EY are cheap. You don't use them for hosting your blog, you use them for hosting rails apps like kongregate or scribd - in that context, a few hundred bucks a month is peanuts.