This might be a little bit off topic, but I've always thought that it could make some sense to have a YC colocation. With enough companies, it could be more cost-effective than everyone getting their own slicehost. Of course, there would be a ton of other headaches involved like backups, outages, etc, but a lot of YC companies seem to be doing just fine administering their own boxes in a colo. I know it wouldn't be for everyone, but maybe a standard stack of software/configuations could be readily available for new YC companies. We all seem to have had the same frustrations with configuring webservers, mail servers (ouch!), tweaking database servers, etc. It could be yet another benefit of joining the YC mafia =)
Thanks for compiling that list. I didn't know about SoftLayer.<p>I noticed the list mentions Justin.tv hosts itself. Aren't they built on Amazon EC2 and S3?
Not a YC company but I have sites on Slicehost and FDC Servers. Slicehost was nice for setting up my first Linux server - now that I've done it, I'll be using FDC as it's hard to beat FDC for the price/bandwidth.<p>If you can stay under 3 TB/month 1and1 also has some decent servers for the money.
Does Mosso cloud mix into Rackspace? I've been quite happy with my Mosso Xen VPS.<p>I pay like $26/mo. for my 512MB VPS. It's $0.03/hr which is $21.90/mo. but you pay $0.22/GB out, and $0.08/GB in. I don't use a whole lot of bandwidth though.
Interesting reviews at Web Hosting Geeks:
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