Ask HN: Recommended hosting service that scales well

1 points by akristofcak 13y ago ↗ HN

Apologies if this is sort of basic but does anyone have a good recommendation of hosting services for a small but growing webapp. I know if we throw enough money at this we can solve this problem very quickly but I want to be prudent and not break the bank unnecessarily while at the same time make sure the site doesn't crash every time we get a few thousand hits. I'm having a hard time finding a solid middle ground just by searching around the internet.

Thanks much for any pointers.

Best, A

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byoung2 13y ago ↗

At the startup where I work, we use Amazon. Start with a small or micro instance and put Cloudfront in front of it. As you grow, add more instances behind a load balancer and switch your databse to a master/slave setup. Add memcache to cache queries, and use Varnish as a caching proxy. That's how we started, and after a year we hit 200+ instances and growing (you'll have to request an increase from the 20 instance cap, or split them across accounts).

EDIT: we are working on a big data app, so most of the horsepower is for crawling and number crunching. 10 instances are client facing