Where do YC applicants host their projects?

Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by cperciva on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:02PM (#64846)

Taking the list of YC-funded companies from wikipedia, excluding those marked as defunct or sold, resolving www.${domain} to an IP address, and then looking that up via whois, I see:

Amazon.com (presumably EC2?) -- 2

Layered Technologies, Inc. -- 2

NoZone, Inc. -- 2

Rackspace.com, Ltd. -- 2

Software Technologies Inc. -- 2

BitPusher, LLC -- 1

Carnegie Mellon University -- 1

Columbus Network Access Point, Inc. -- 1

Global Netoptex, Inc -- 1

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. -- 1

So it looks like YC-funded companies usually have dedicated servers, but there's no single place where they tend to congregate.

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by breck on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:53PM (#64892)

Now that's a great reply that adds value. Unlike this one.

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by brlewis on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @03:22PM (#65412)

I've been using layeredtech for about two years. For a while I was concerned because of their APEWS blacklisting, but no longer am, since APEWS has lost credibility:

http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/08/apews-news-and-commentary-round...

I had one hardware issue during that time -- bad memory. They responded quickly.

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by iamyoohoo on Monday October 08, 2007 @07:00PM (#65021)

Next time try whoishostingthis.com instead of whois - quicker for knowing who's hosting them.

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by cperciva on Monday October 08, 2007 @07:03PM (#65022)

I could query whois for a list of IP addresses by piping the list through "xargs -n 1 whois". It would have been rather more complicated if I wanted to query a website.

EDIT: Here's the code in case anyone's curious -- note that most of it is just a list of domain names:

echo anywhere.fm adpinion.com fuzzwich.com slapvid.com versionate.com auctomatic.com buxfer.com heysan.com octopart.com socialmoth.com virtualmin.com weebly.com whitenoisenetworks.com writewith.com xobni.com iilwy.com jamglue.com scribd.com thinkature.com justin.tv audiobeta.com flagr.com inklingmarkets.com snipshot.com sproutsys.com wufoo.com clickfacts.com loopt.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

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by zurla on Monday October 08, 2007 @08:23PM (#65043)

there are a couple at Softlayer.com too

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Re:Where do YC applicants host their projects? by cperciva on Monday October 08, 2007 @11:12PM (#65101)

Oops -- the "Software Technologies" above was a subconscious mental correction from "SoftLAYER Technologies".

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