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by jread 16y ago
I'm not sure there is any proof Rackspace Cloud is any more secure than EC2. AWS offers a Virtual Private Data Center service (VPC) which is highly secure. Rackspace Cloud has nothing like that. AWS also offers firewall management functiona
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by jread 16y ago
<quote>Amazon has a CDN and servers distributed globally. This is important to Mixpanel as websites all over the world are sending us data. There’s nothing like this on Rackspace.</quote> Actually, Rackspace cloud offers CDN
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by jread 16y ago
CPU is a major bottleneck for Rackspace Cloud. All instance sizes get the same 4 cores and about the same compute resources. CPU performance is roughly the same on a 1GB cloud server as an 8GB cloud server, you are just paying for more memo
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by jread 16y ago
4 kids and 1 year into a startup here. It is not easy. If you don't have the support of your wife (and you want to stay married), don't even try. You have to prioritize very well, and force yourself to take breaks for your family. You don't
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by jread 16y ago
We've been monitoring a heroku instance for the past 8 months. Our current instance uptime is 99.953% (about 200 minutes of downtime). Of the 76 services we monitor, Heroku is #64. http://cloudharmony.com/status
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by jread 16y ago
We've spent about a year collecting data and developing these web services. I'd be very interested in feedback and suggestions from the HN community.
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by jread 16y ago
We tried using SimpleDB initially for a startup. We store a lot of numerical data. When it came time to actually query this data and do anything meaningful with it we ran into a lot of issues because all values are stored as untyped strings
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Latest on Chargify: 12 mo grandfathering clause & Free Customers
5 points by jread 16y ago|0 comments
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by jread 16y ago
You could also try PayPal's website payments standard which offers similar recurring payment functionality and identical transaction pricing. Customer's aren't required to have a PayPal account to purchase through it either. Both of these s
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by jread 16y ago
If you are bootstrapped and need low cost recurring payments capabilities here are a few fully outsourced and PCI compliant services you could consider: PayPal Website Payments Standard: 2.9% + $0.30/trans https://merchant.paypal.com/cgi-b
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by jread 16y ago
Chargify just sent an email offering existing customers a "Bootstrapping" plan. $39/mo for up to 100 customers. http://grasshopper.com/email_assets/chargify-bootstrapper.ht...
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by jread 16y ago
I'll second dynadot. I switched from godaddy a few years ago and could not be happier. Website is lean and fast, domain lookups are super fast, and checkout is a simple 1 minute process.
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by jread 16y ago
I'm having the same dilemma with a SaaS startup. Up until now we've been using Quickbooks online's gateway and recurring payments capabilities, but the process of setting up new payments is manual and tedious and we want to go with more of
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by jread 16y ago
Another option for using a CDN that will let you maintain better control and outage visibility, is to sign up for a paygo CDN account yourself. GoGrid and Speedyrails resell Edgecast CDN and Softlayer resells Internap CDN both of which are
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by jread 16y ago
Correct, these benchmarks are highlighting the performance of an individual cluster compute instance, not a cluster of instances.
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by jread 16y ago
I'm running 4 m1.small EBS-backed LAMP servers in all 4 regions. I pay about $1/mo for EBS IO (8-11 million IO requests per instance per month). The servers get a few thousand hits per day. The cost of EBS IO should be minimal in most cases
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by jread 16y ago
I've had 2 spot instances up for over 6 months. My bid price for those instances is the on-demand price.
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by jread 16y ago
To my knowledge (I've spun up many EC2 m1.small instances in all 4 regions), Opteron 2218s are only in use in us-east. The other 3 regions use E5430s.
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by jread 16y ago
A good strategy I've used with EC2 for the past 6 months is to always purchase spot instances using a bid price that is just slightly above the on-demand price. Generally spot pricing stays around the much lower reserve pricing but will occ
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by jread 16y ago
One of the biggest advantages to using EC2 is its scaling capabilities. EC2 offers 10 different instance sizes from m1.small to cc.4xlarge (with 10 Gbps clustering capabilities), 4 different regions, auto-scaling, load balancing, high avail
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Benchmarking of EC2's new Cluster Compute Instance(blog.cloudharmony.com)
3 points by jread 16y ago|2 comments
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by jread 16y ago
c1.medium is also available only in 32-bit
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by jread 16y ago
Here is a Geekbench benchmark report for one of these new micro instances: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=287891 . It uses the same E5430 processors as the other m1 instances. CPU performance is about 2x m1.small based on t
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by jread 16y ago
This study was sponsored by Rackspace... I think the end results are questionable. Here is a study I wrote comparing AWS, Rackspace and some other cloud providers using some more standard benchmarking methods: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/
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by jread 16y ago
VPS.net sells both highwinds and Akamai. Akamai is $100 for 1 TB. However, they only offer origin pull, so performance will be slightly degraded versus using their NetStorage. http://www.vps.net/forum/public-forums/technical-discussions...
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by jread 16y ago
Thanks this is very helpful information. He introduced himself as an "Investor", but his linkedin profile shows his job title as an analyst. I'm guessing that is probably at or below the associate level.
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Ask HN: A VC wants to talk to us, what to expect?
14 points by jread 16y ago|6 comments
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by jread 16y ago
This new cluster compute instance size is essentially a variation of the m2.4xlarge instance (2xX5550 Nehelem - 27ECUs) with the following changes: 1. Faster X5570 CPUs 2. 10G Network 3. HVM I think the most noteworthy feature is the 10G Ni
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Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 5: Encoding & Encryption(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 16y ago|0 comments
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by jread 16y ago
Also, The Planet has a cloud service in beta with some advanced support options like monitoring and pro-active downtime response

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