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4 points by optimal ↗ HN
Hello,

Can anyone recommend good hosting services for a new startup?

An older post here mentioned Rackspace and Serverbeach. Are they still recommended?

I've actually had good experience with GoDaddy as an economical service in the past, but am interested in current opinions on hosts suitable for a startup.

Thanks!

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nickb
What kind of a stack are you running? What are your memory/CPU requirements? How much bandwidth will you need? Are you serving video or just text/images?

Anyway... it all depends on what your req's are...

optimal
Hi nickb,

Thanks for your response. I was going to get into details, but figured my requirements are so typical it wouldn't be worth the extra description.

This is for a standard LAMP-based app with a minimum of graphics. I expect traffic volume to be low for the near future and have no heavy-duty requirements for video and such.

Basically I'd like to find an economical service that can scale with my user base.

foodawg
I don't know if your referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795 as the older post, but it is only a month old. The web hosting industry is pretty cyclical, but within a month, the data should still be relevant.
optimal
foodawg,

Thanks--that looks better than the thread from 148 days ago I had bookmarked (whatever date that happens to be):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011

Is there a search function here I'm missing? I did search for search to parse prior posts but withdrew without the words of the most.

cperciva
The canonical place to find hosting recommendations is http://www.webhostingtalk.com .

If you're looking for information about where YC-funded startups are hosted, here's the latest numbers from wikipedia's list of non-acquired, non-defunct YC companies:

   4     SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
   3     Layered Technologies, Inc.
   3     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
   2     NoZone, Inc.
   2     Rackspace.com, Ltd.
   1     Amazon.com, Inc.
   1     BitPusher, LLC
   1     Carnegie Mellon University
   1     Columbus Network Access Point, Inc.
   1     Global Netoptex, Inc
   1     ServePath, LLC
   1     Simpli Hosting, Inc
herdrick
Rackspace's offerings start at $400 a month. And they have no prices on their site, so you have to talk to a 'sales associate'... God I hate it when you can't get a price off a website. Can't believe I wasted two minutes on that. Learn from my error.