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You could use something like Rackspace cloud sites: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sites http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_produ

by ArtemD 17y ago

You could use something like Rackspace cloud sites: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sites http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sites They claim to offer automatic scalability and server redundancy out of the box. I have no personal experience with this product thou.

thaumaturgy 17y ago
Rackspace made headlines recently for having multiple outages.
- paulsingh 17y ago
  Any hosting company with an outage is going to get headlines these days. My first startup was a hosting company -- my partner still runs it and I exited a few years ago. Having "been there and done that," I have a lot of respect for anyone that can stay in the hosting business -- when everything is running just fine, your customers are complaining about why things can't be cheaper. As soon as the network blips for even a second, everyone's talking about how crappy the network is, why they pay so much (even on $10/mo accounts), etc. In other news: it's early, I can't sleep and I might be a little cranky. :)
  - thaumaturgy 17y ago
    No worries. FWIW, I've worked for an ISP, and now offer (really cheap) domain mail hosting services too. So, yeah. That said: my point wasn't so much that Rackspace is a bad hosting company, but rather that the original question was looking for a solution that would offer really close to zero downtime for their customers, and given that, "put it all on Rackspace" isn't a viable answer.
brk 17y ago
My personal experience with Rackspace is pretty horrible. I'd probably recommend running a site off of a mini-itx server using bandwidth leeched from your neighbors unsecured wifi connection before I'd recommend Rackspace.
midnightmonster 17y ago
Service may or may not pass basic PCI scan. Probably should see if it would pass any required scans before you go. If you're storing credit card data yourself, it's Definitely not PCI compliant. OTOH, you're already not PCI compliant in that case. I have this service but don't use it for anything serious. The primary win is that I don't have to maintain the servers, and the email service is very solid with a good webmail. Downsides are I can't make them switch to PHP 5.3, the filesystem is NFS, and there's no API for the control panel stuff. (Most hosts don't have an API for control panel actions, but it would be nice if I could automate creating sites.)

by ArtemD 17y ago

thaumaturgy 17y ago

Rackspace made headlines recently for having multiple outages.

paulsingh 17y ago
Any hosting company with an outage is going to get headlines these days. My first startup was a hosting company -- my partner still runs it and I exited a few years ago. Having "been there and done that," I have a lot of respect for anyone that can stay in the hosting business -- when everything is running just fine, your customers are complaining about why things can't be cheaper. As soon as the network blips for even a second, everyone's talking about how crappy the network is, why they pay so much (even on $10/mo accounts), etc. In other news: it's early, I can't sleep and I might be a little cranky. :)
- thaumaturgy 17y ago
  No worries. FWIW, I've worked for an ISP, and now offer (really cheap) domain mail hosting services too. So, yeah. That said: my point wasn't so much that Rackspace is a bad hosting company, but rather that the original question was looking for a solution that would offer really close to zero downtime for their customers, and given that, "put it all on Rackspace" isn't a viable answer.

brk 17y ago

My personal experience with Rackspace is pretty horrible. I'd probably recommend running a site off of a mini-itx server using bandwidth leeched from your neighbors unsecured wifi connection before I'd recommend Rackspace.

midnightmonster 17y ago

Service may or may not pass basic PCI scan. Probably should see if it would pass any required scans before you go. If you're storing credit card data yourself, it's Definitely not PCI compliant. OTOH, you're already not PCI compliant in that case. I have this service but don't use it for anything serious. The primary win is that I don't have to maintain the servers, and the email service is very solid with a good webmail. Downsides are I can't make them switch to PHP 5.3, the filesystem is NFS, and there's no API for the control panel stuff. (Most hosts don't have an API for control panel actions, but it would be nice if I could automate creating sites.)