

Hosting recommendations for startup - optimal

Hello,<p>Can anyone recommend good hosting services for a new startup?<p>An older post here mentioned Rackspace and Serverbeach. Are they still recommended?<p>I've actually had good experience with GoDaddy as an economical service in the past, but am interested in current opinions on hosts suitable for a startup.<p>Thanks!
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cperciva
The canonical place to find hosting recommendations is
<http://www.webhostingtalk.com> .

If you're looking for information about where YC-funded startups are hosted,
here's the latest numbers from wikipedia's list of non-acquired, non-defunct
YC companies:

    
    
       4     SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
       3     Layered Technologies, Inc.
       3     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
       2     NoZone, Inc.
       2     Rackspace.com, Ltd.
       1     Amazon.com, Inc.
       1     BitPusher, LLC
       1     Carnegie Mellon University
       1     Columbus Network Access Point, Inc.
       1     Global Netoptex, Inc
       1     ServePath, LLC
       1     Simpli Hosting, Inc
    

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nickb
What kind of a stack are you running? What are your memory/CPU requirements?
How much bandwidth will you need? Are you serving video or just text/images?

Anyway... it all depends on what your req's are...

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optimal
Hi nickb,

Thanks for your response. I was going to get into details, but figured my
requirements are so typical it wouldn't be worth the extra description.

This is for a standard LAMP-based app with a minimum of graphics. I expect
traffic volume to be low for the near future and have no heavy-duty
requirements for video and such.

Basically I'd like to find an economical service that can scale with my user
base.

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brlewis
<http://linode.com/>

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juanpablo
Excellent. I was looking for something like that. Thank you!

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upper
<http://vr.org/>

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donna
Heard about this at a meet-up in SF;
<http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/hosting.jsp>

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foodawg
I don't know if your referring to <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795>
as the older post, but it is only a month old. The web hosting industry is
pretty cyclical, but within a month, the data should still be relevant.

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optimal
foodawg,

Thanks--that looks better than the thread from 148 days ago I had bookmarked
(whatever date that happens to be):

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011>

Is there a search function here I'm missing? I did search for search to parse
prior posts but withdrew without the words of the most.

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herdrick
Rackspace's offerings start at $400 a month. And they have no prices on their
site, so you have to talk to a 'sales associate'... God I hate it when you
can't get a price off a website. Can't believe I wasted two minutes on that.
Learn from my error.

