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Ask HN: Hosting - Self, Co-Lo, or Rackspace
My new site is taking off reasonable well. It is a video streaming site and runs on CentOS 5.5, 2x1tb enterpise level drives with 12gb of RAM. The totals about 300gb in size with more being added everyday. I am not sure how much bandwidth it sucks down every month.
My wife has been complaining that the internet is cutting out and performance is suffering due to this site running.
I have a 22/5 Comcast circuit now and I can upgrade to 50/10 for an additional $50 per month totaling $180 a month, no bandwidth limitations and 5 static IP's
Or I could get a dedicated server at GoDaddy or similar. However for a comparable box to what I have now it ranged from $299/mo to $540/mo. Unaffordable.
Rackspace Cloud seems unaffordable too. The virtual machines are expensive and the bandwidth alone will kill me every month.
Does anyone have thoughts?
- trevelyan 16y agoFind out how much bandwidth you're using and how much you need going forward?
- jason_slack 16y agoWhile I agree bandwidth is important. The cost without it included is still significant to do it right. Take the RackSpace Cloud: 1. Firewall - Linux, 1gb RAM - $43.60/mo 2. Web-Server - Linux, 8gb RAM, 320gb HD - $350/mo (and this is not even enough drive space) Already $400/mo + bandwidth and I don't have enough HD nor redundancy of the data. To do it right I should be adding in here a MySQL Server, another web-server at the least.
- ecaroth 16y agoim not sure what kind of video streaming you are doing, but for the ammount of data you have you may be better off hosting your site on a low end VM like slice host and then streaming your videos off s3