Hello,<p>Can anyone recommend good hosting services for a new startup?<p>An older post here mentioned Rackspace and Serverbeach. Are they still recommended?<p>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.<p>Thanks!
The canonical place to find hosting recommendations is <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.webhostingtalk.com</a> .<p>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:<p><pre><code> 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
</code></pre>
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?<p>Anyway... it all depends on what your req's are...
Heard about this at a meet-up in SF;
<a href="http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/hosting.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/hosting.jsp</a>
I don't know if your referring to <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795</a> 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.
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.<p>