What webhost do you use for your startup?

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by rami • 19 years ago

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zaidf3• 19 years ago

Softlayer

theoutlander2• 19 years ago

As recommended by iJigg....Softlayer ... and they are just beautiful!!!

zaidf3• 19 years ago

Dude these guys should gift me free servers. I've referred at least a dozen people to them since our launch. Until their great service continues I won't complain.

ivan• 19 years ago

site5

semigeek• 19 years ago

http://www.webair.com/ - I've got a few servers with them, great service and prices. I can get you custom prices that aren't listed on the site; for example I've got a quad xeon 3ghz with dual SCSI 120gb drives, 4gb ram and 10mbps unmetered for 249/month.

keven• 19 years ago

for projects written using Rails, i would suggest engine yard or railsmachine

madmotive• 19 years ago

I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a production RoR environment up and running too. They're probably the best bet for bootstrapers and students.

abahgat• 19 years ago

We use slicehost too for our web app. Even if most of their customers appear to use RoR, we didn't have any issue in setting up Apache and MySql and getting our Java/Tomcat/Struts/Hibernate web application up & running even on a VPS with 256MB of Ram.

jamongkad• 19 years ago

Checked out the rest and Slicehost seems to appeal to me the most. I love their pricing plan! very simple and straight forward. Though how do they compare to RailsMachine etc. in terms of scaling Rails apps?

RyanGWU82• 19 years ago

madmotive, could you drop me an email? I've got a question for you about this. My email address is on my user page. Thanks.

melhorn2• 19 years ago

we use joyent.com - at least we try to... The portfolio is impressive, and we mainly chose them because they offer horizontally scalable rails solutions, something that many providers are still missing.

We requested the new server 2 weeks before. Still no server...

Do you know of alternatives we might be looking for?

melhorn2• 19 years ago

Well, it turned out their mails got caught in the spam filter and we managed to overlook them :-( What a shame...

robertgaal• 19 years ago

I'd recommend Railsmachine. I wrote a post about it here: http://blog.wakoopa.com/archives/how-we-got-hosted-the-rails-way

jmw• 19 years ago

I'd definitely recommend http://rimuhosting.com

I know of at least 1 YComb startup that has used it in the past - and we're using it now. I've personally been hosting with them for 2 or 3 years now and it's hands down the best virtual hosting I've used (compared with 4 others I've tried).

Other friends are using Amazon EC2+S3 for scaling needs (on the fly load-balancing). Haven't used it myself, but I only hear great things.

mgiles• 19 years ago

I'd second that vote for Rimu. I used them when I started Furl and I continue to use them for my new projects. They are truly fantastic when it comes to support.

jmtame• 19 years ago

For simplicity and affordability, you can't go wrong with GoDaddy.

henryw• 19 years ago

I've been on godaddy dedicated for over a year now, and there's been no problems at all.

pistoriusp• 19 years ago

Really?

http://nodaddy.com/

nostrademons• 19 years ago

We're also on GoDaddy, and haven't had any problems so far (granted, we're pre-launch, so we haven't had a chance for any of the really taxing stuff to occur). We haven't ruled out switching services if there's a problem, but we might as well start simple.

You have to take into account company size when weighing complaints. The bigger hosting providers - GoDaddy and DreamHost - will necessarily have more negative opinions, simply because of sheer numbers. But there are many, many satisfied customers of them.

inklesspen• 19 years ago

I like Linode: http://www.linode.com

They may be a little more expensive than other VPS hosts, but they make up for it with awesome, rapid service turnaround. I've been using them for three years, and I don't think I'd switch to anything except maybe EC2.

juwo• 19 years ago

Geoff Brozny at http://www.glorb.com He is fantastic at customer support. Send him an email anytime and he will respond within an hour - usually, within a few minutes.

What webhost do you use for your startup?

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