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Ask HN: What cloud provider do you use?
After the incidences experienced by reddit (http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html) related to the reliability of EBD I'm wondering what are alternatives and which one do you have experience with/recommend. Maybe it's just EBD that has to be avoided?
(I've used AWS for some batch work but never for hosting a webapp, but now I was planning to use it for hosting a webapp (either directly or via heroku))
- selectnull 16y agohttp://www.rackspace.com/cloud/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/
- ryanfitz 16y agoLinode has great prices for 64bit instances. For all of my own projects I use mongoDB, which requires a 64bit os and amazon really doesn't compare price wise, at least for small 64bit instances. My servers have run there without issue and I've found their customer support to be great.
- rmoriz 16y agoHere in Europe dedicated machines are so cheap (100$/month for QuadCore CPU, 24GB RAM, 2x1.5TB SATA) that most startups and companies just order a bunch of dedicated servers [1][2]. Hetzner[1] e.g. has pre-provisioned servers running that get delivered within 10 minutes (24/7) (if you're a customer). You can also cancel every server every month. And they have an API [3]), too (I made a Ruby gem for that[4]) This pretty much kills all needs to use AWS or any other cloud provider for 98% of all startups/projects. Ah, btw, they've 10 times [5] the connection of e.g. AWS Europe and provide native IPv6. [1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq8 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq8 [2] http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml [3] http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Robot_Webservice_en http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Robot_Webservice_en [4] http://github.com/rmoriz/hetzner-api http://github.com/rmoriz/hetzner-api [5] check on http://bgp.he.net/ http://bgp.he.net/
- edu 16y agothanks! hetzner was already in my list of options, and I think I'll go with them :)
- parasubvert 16y agoThe issue with Reddit was that they designed their application for a single, on-premise data centre, with multiple layers of redundancy at the infrastructure layer. They didn't design for failure. If you design your application such that single-availability-zone EBS must be as reliable as a hardened triple mirror EMC SAN, you're going to be disappointed. If you treat EBS as what it is - commodity virtualized disk storage with moderate performance - you'll be fine. In other words, ensure you have replication of data across availability zones.
- bmelton 16y agoThere's another thread round here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337313 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337313) where shykes is allowing more people into the dotcloud beta. It's a brilliant product, and if you're lucky, you can get in. I believe its backend is EC2, and it's completely normalized deployment for a variety of different projects - similar to Heroku, but for almost any language or platform. The only downfall I've seen in using it for complete deployment is that it doesn't yet support naked domains, but it DOES support www.domainname.com, so I have a static page that just redirects from domainname.com to www.domainname.com where necessary.
- slig 16y agoLinode, hands down. I've never experienced downtime there in more than 2 years.
- JoshKalkbrenner 16y agoRackSpace
- kposehn 16y agoHeroku all the way.