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That's not true. For low traffic sites, NFSN and Webfaction are more than capable.
by mtogo 15y ago
That's not true. For low traffic sites, NFSN and Webfaction are more than capable.
- _delirium 15y agoYeah, I'd be surprised if a typical DIY VPS webserver can beat nearlyfreespeech.net's uptimes and resilience to burst traffic.
- davidandgoliath 15y agoDoubtful. Largely in part due to the average 'vps' user not managing things properly -- or knowing how much they need to scale, etc. Entities that have been doing it for years have things optimized quite a bit to handle the spikes. I suspect the average shared hosting kicks the ass of the average VPS -- particularly in the IO department.
- dasil003 15y agoAre you guys serious? No doubt there is good shared hosting, but most of it is oversold to shit. "Average shared hosting" is a race to the bottom. The reason I say VPS is because that way you have guaranteed resources and the ability to debug and fix problems yourself. I guess if you know the right shared host you can get some good value there, but it still seems like a terrible risk to me due to undisclosed limits, or vulnerability to neighbors traffic spikes. When I said "startup" I thought it was implicit that it would not be expected to be a low traffic site, at least not for long.
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- krobertson 15y agoSure, "low traffic" sites. But if you are running a startup (as in, a business, and not a little hobby project), you should never use shared hosting. If your "startup" is really just a hobby, then you shouldn't be making generalizations like "startups should...".