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Ask HN: Best cloud host?

11 points by ltamake ↗ HN
I'm in the process of launching a startup and I've decided on cloud hosting. I tried out AWS and I really like it so far, but I was wondering if anyone had any better choices. Cost isn't too much of a problem but I'm most worried about reliability.

Thanks in advance!

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goshakkk
If project is written in Ruby, take a look at Engine Yard and Heroku (it also supports node.js, Clojure and Java).
detour
We've been using dotcloud (https://www.dotcloud.com/) and are quite happy with the results in testing. Haven't gone to production yet though so we'll see how they pan out in the long run.
AdamGibbins
You need to define your interpretation of "cloud host". It varies a lot. Are you looking for a virtual machine host with a decent API? Or are you looking for someone to manage the stack of your software? In which case, what is your stack?
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masonhensley
We've been trying out pagodabox and love it. (PHP)
fuzzythinker
Trying out ep.io now. Docs are lacking a bit, but support seems superb. Ask again or contact me in a few weeks, I should have more to say then.
nesbot
I have had a great experience with https://www.stormondemand.com/ so far. They offer both shared and bare-metal dedicated and they always seem to be cheap compared to others. They were rated quite high by the cloudharmony benchmarks. Not to mention their support twitter account, when needed, are really responsive.
planetjoe
It should be noted that many of the services that have been mentioned (heroku, dotcloud) are built on top of AWS, so they'll be no more reliable than AWS.

Other big players in the cloud space are MS Azure and Rackspace.

sktrdie
App Engine has a real solid infrastructure. I find it that it's extremely good at hiding implementation details - I don't care whether my database is Mongo or MySQL, I just want it to work and scale. The APIs never break and it's really cheap.