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Poll: How many servers is your startup running on?

5 points by vaksel 18y ago

mcav 18y ago
Slicehost. 1 slice for production DB, 1 slice for web, and 1 slice for testing.
mahmud 18y ago
"“Slicehost” and “slice” are trademarks of Slicehost, LLC" -- Slicehost.com website footer. I run off of VPS accounts hosted with various VPS providers (vpsfarm and linode.)
- satyajit 18y ago
  Hey, thats good to know another person on vpsfarm. We are on it too. And I think they provide excellent value for money, esp we spending from our own pocket, definitely its a service I would recommend any DIY kinda guy to bootstrap. If anyone needs to learn more, send me a mail from my profile, will be happy to tell you what I know. (disclaimer: I don't get paid by vpsfarm for these stmt).
jerry951 18y ago
Shared hosting for now. I have Bluehost but we will be getting 1 dedicated server soon.
patio11 18y ago
3 slices. 1 for the main site, 1 for the blogs (largely separate just so that failures can't cost me money), 1 for development projects.
satyajit 18y ago
I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything. It depends what stage they are in. We are a startup, bootstrapping with our own money, and went private beta about 2 weeks back, so we are on one VPS, where db, 2 RoR apps, transcoding, blog, mail, queueing server, storage, everything on it. Its far from real scenario, where (hopefully) some day we'll be serving thousands, if not millions, of users.
- tokenadult 18y ago
  I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything. The poll results, being voluntary response convenience sample results, would of course tell us nothing reliable about what most start-ups, or the typical start-up, does for hosting its services. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tstart=36420 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta... But the poll gets us talking, and the forced choice among the responses gets me thinking about what other choices I have. And your response about what issues a person has to think about when making these choices is a very helpful response to the poll.
quellhorst 18y ago
I use dedicated servers located at colo4dallas.com and cloud computing with Amazon Web Services.
justin 18y ago
100
cwitr329 18y ago
We have 10 EC2 servers. We use a front end proxy for traffic management, and multiple App servers behind it. We have 2 db servers (master and slave), a couple memcached servers, and a mail server.

5 points by vaksel 18y ago

mcav 18y ago

Slicehost. 1 slice for production DB, 1 slice for web, and 1 slice for testing.

"“Slicehost” and “slice” are trademarks of Slicehost, LLC" -- Slicehost.com website footer. I run off of VPS accounts hosted with various VPS providers (vpsfarm and linode.)

satyajit 18y ago
Hey, thats good to know another person on vpsfarm. We are on it too. And I think they provide excellent value for money, esp we spending from our own pocket, definitely its a service I would recommend any DIY kinda guy to bootstrap. If anyone needs to learn more, send me a mail from my profile, will be happy to tell you what I know. (disclaimer: I don't get paid by vpsfarm for these stmt).

jerry951 18y ago

Shared hosting for now. I have Bluehost but we will be getting 1 dedicated server soon.

patio11 18y ago

3 slices. 1 for the main site, 1 for the blogs (largely separate just so that failures can't cost me money), 1 for development projects.

satyajit 18y ago

I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything. It depends what stage they are in. We are a startup, bootstrapping with our own money, and went private beta about 2 weeks back, so we are on one VPS, where db, 2 RoR apps, transcoding, blog, mail, queueing server, storage, everything on it. Its far from real scenario, where (hopefully) some day we'll be serving thousands, if not millions, of users.

tokenadult 18y ago
I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything. The poll results, being voluntary response convenience sample results, would of course tell us nothing reliable about what most start-ups, or the typical start-up, does for hosting its services. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tstart=36420 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta... But the poll gets us talking, and the forced choice among the responses gets me thinking about what other choices I have. And your response about what issues a person has to think about when making these choices is a very helpful response to the poll.

quellhorst 18y ago

I use dedicated servers located at colo4dallas.com and cloud computing with Amazon Web Services.

justin 18y ago

100

cwitr329 18y ago

We have 10 EC2 servers. We use a front end proxy for traffic management, and multiple App servers behind it. We have 2 db servers (master and slave), a couple memcached servers, and a mail server.