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Ask HN: What paid services do you use now for your startup?

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I was looking around for server setups, and I ran into an old HN post about what paid services people use.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229

Now that it's more than a year later, has consensus changed? Or is it mostly still the same? What paid services do you use?

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This is for my business education course / consulting business:

Slicehost (website hosting) Aweber (autoresponder/broadcast e-mail) Amazon S3/Cloudfront (media server) Google Apps (e-mail) Skype (international calling) Dropbox (backup) Chartbeat (analytics) Powerpay (merchant account) Backpack (reference / reminders) Evernote (database)

I'm seriously considering Ruby Receptionists (callruby.com) for in-bound call handling - I'm on the phone a lot, and it'd be much better than letting incoming calls go to voicemail. (I use Google Voice currently.)

At Airbnb we're using Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, Cloudfront), Dropbox, Cloudkick, Pingdom, Twilio, Clickatell, ZenDesk, RingCentral, BrainTree, MaxMind, MailChimp ...

and more I can't think of right now :)

I'm looking into twilo (I always forget the name and have to google it). I use phonebooth and google apps. For hosting I'm using host gator til my sites or apps need a dedicated server. When that time comes I have a business partner to front hardware and hosting. For office space when it comes to that time I have made a few connections that I will barter services for.

1. Voip.ms for phones, IVR, voicemail 2. Dreamhost for small sites, pgrmr for large sites 3. SendGrid for email delivery 4. Bittorrent for everything else

For RestBackup.com, I'm using:

- Amazon EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS

- Sendgrid.com for mail delivery

- Pingdom.com for monitoring and alarm notification

- Google Apps Premium for email hosting

- Linode.com for DNS hosting

- Namecheap.com for DNS registration and SSL certs (putting off buying from Verisign)

- JungleDisk.com for backups

- T-Mobile prepaid mobile phone

Hosting: Slicehost, Amazon AWS (EC2), Time Warner Cable (a couple of servers sitting in the spare room in my apartment)

And, er, um, that's about it right now. We're really not far along enough to need much more.

Rackspace Cloud for Windows (app hosting)

ASmallOrange (wordpress hosting)

Fotolia

MailChimp

MailboxForwarding

GoDaddy (domains only)

DropBox

Google Apps

Google Voice

Intervals for project management, Backpack for quick notes, MailChimp for email, AT&T :( for telephone, Verizon for DSL, and SBWH for VPS.

  Linode (VPS)
  MSNI (merchant)
  Twilio
  Pingdom
  AWS
  MailChimp
  Comcast (build server resides in garage)

Google App Engine, Amazon S3, Google Apps Premium, Second Life Premium, Skype, Carbonite, Squarespace

Google Apps, Basecamp, Dropbox, Google AppEngine, Nearlyfreespeech for cheap hosting

A few we use for a variety of things are.

Mailchimp Google Apps SurveyMonkey

  google apps

  dnspark
  
  maxcdn
  
  evernote

Dropbox. Currently in trial and considering: Performable, SnapABug, SendGrid

Hi this is Justin from Performable. We want to provide the best service possible for startups. Please let us know how we can help in any way.

Evernote, dropbox, slichost, google apps, basecamp, lessacounting

Amazon, Rackspace cloud, encoding.com, google apps..

Harvest for time and expense tracking.

Curdbee.com

dropbox

Skype

Dropbox Github

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