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Get yourself a decent no-name 1U box ($900-$1500), stick it into a friendly colocation service near you. $120-200/mo your mileage may vary. This should be enoug
by tx 19y ago
Get yourself a decent no-name 1U box ($900-$1500), stick it into a friendly colocation service near you. $120-200/mo your mileage may vary. This should be enough to test the waters.
- gerry 19y agoThat's a crazy idea when you can same performance from a VPS with no capital costs and cheaper hosting AND better reliability. Read my findings here: http://www.productcriticblog.com/2007/02/startup-lessons-from-productcritic-save.html http://www.productcriticblog.com/2007/02/startup-lessons-from-productcritic-save.html
- tx 19y agoI disagree with your findings. Sure it's cheap, but hosting companies tend to oversell this virtual boxes to people and performance is not the same, especially when it comes to disk I/O (any kind of I/O) and handling sudden CPU usage spikes. $1,200-$1,600 for a server is not expensive. If you are trying to start up a company and you're an engineer yourself, that money is what? Your half week salary? Or we're talking about running things from a dorm room here? You make very good point about reliability though.