How to host the startup server?

Re:How to host the startup server? by tx on Sunday May 27, 2007 @11:18PM (#25010)

Get yourself a decent no-name 1U box ($900-$1500), stick it into a friendly colocation service near you. $120-200/mo your mileage may vary. This should be enough to test the waters.

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Re:How to host the startup server? by gerry on Monday May 28, 2007 @09:34PM (#25115)

That's a crazy idea when you can same performance from a VPS with no capital costs and cheaper hosting AND better reliability. Read my findings here: http://www.productcriticblog.com/2007/02/startup-lessons-from-productcritic-save.html

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Re:How to host the startup server? by tx on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:29PM (#25505)

I disagree with your findings. Sure it's cheap, but hosting companies tend to oversell this virtual boxes to people and performance is not the same, especially when it comes to disk I/O (any kind of I/O) and handling sudden CPU usage spikes.

$1,200-$1,600 for a server is not expensive. If you are trying to start up a company and you're an engineer yourself, that money is what? Your half week salary? Or we're talking about running things from a dorm room here?

You make very good point about reliability though.

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