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Why not just co-locate a box of your own? What I did: Assemble random crap box from parts (Athlon 2100+, 512 MB RAM, 80GB HDD) This was free for me, and sh
by kogir 20y ago
Why not just co-locate a box of your own?
What I did:
Assemble random crap box from parts (Athlon 2100+, 512 MB RAM, 80GB HDD) This was free for me, and should be cheap or free for you. It was also two years ago, so you can probably find better hardware now.
Leave box at parents' house using cable modem for 2 months (free, but slow)
Co-locate box at Sprocket Data in Dallas for 6 months ($60/mo for 100 GB traffic, 100 mbps burst)
Then things changed a lot, but my startup has always owned all the equipment.
I like being able to fix problems myself when needed.
- sabat 20y ago"Why not just co-locate a box of your own?" "Co-locate box at Sprocket Data in Dallas for 6 months ($60/mo for 100 GB traffic, 100 mbps burst)" Because it's too expensive when you're just starting out. I could afford $60/mo, for instance (because I'm older and have lots of kizzash) but I'm hosted for $8/mo with 1.5TB of throughput. If your site gets much traffic, you'll be over 60GB before you know it. :-o
- spiralhead 20y agoproblem with the $8/mo-type services is that you're limited as to what sort of tech you can use
- sabat 20y agoTrue, although some providers are more liberal than others. Dreamhost lets you run your own stuff, like ruby, php, rails, etc. But yeah, it's a limited environment, and you're sharing. When you're first starting out, you may not care about that. But eventually ...
- dpapathanasiou 20y agoThe other big downside is that you can't just go in and kill an errant process if your alpha version does something weird. And you're also in the dark about what those other processes (those not owned by you) might be doing at any given time. Controlling the entire server as root is just better.
- jaggederest 20y agowell, to be honest, you get a shell account. I'm hosting stuff on dreamhost, and it's entirely possible to killall my-errant-script when you need to. Just realize that you're a pretty low-priveledge user. It's a great deal for static file hosting though, if you're a data intensive site as opposed to CPU-intensive site (or even a data-intensive site in addition to cpu-intensive)
- scaz 20y agoIf you use FastCGI/Rails with Dreamhost, as soon as you get any traffic they will shut down your account for "Excessive CPU Usage". I've seen it happen to a lot of sites hosted there that are linked from Reddit/Digg.
- sbraford 20y agoI did this a few years ago. Grew a site to 10k+ daily uniques while it was running over a DSL connection at my parents house!