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Loopt is self hosted? Is that actually cost effective? I can understand a company like justin.tv being self hosted, but loopt makes less sense to me.

• seiji 16y ago
  As far as I know, Loopt is a 100% Microsoft shop. When they started, large scale hosted Windows subletting wasn't wide spread.
  • kogir 16y ago
    It still isn't if you want to be using the latest and greatest. Even Amazon only offer Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. We're using the R2 editions of both.
    • PonyGumbo 16y ago
      I've been really curious about this - how do you like it? I've got a couple of Win2k8 cloud servers at Rackspace right now, but I'm entertaining other options.
• kogir 16y ago
  We're not 100% Microsoft. Probably 80% though. We do it for security and privacy reasons. It matters less now, but for getting early carrier deals it was key, and now those agreements still bind us. I use Amazon EC2 personally and would love to use it for more at Loopt, but can't.
  • c2 16y ago
    Ah interesting, that makes sense. I'm sure carriers threw a bunch of inane capital intensive requirements at you. Frame relay anyone?
  • pbreit 16y ago
    No wonder Loopt got left in the dust.