Ask HN: Which Cloud Hosting Solution would you recommend for a Young Start Up?
We're a young European start-up planning to release in a few weeks the alpha version of our idea. Right now, we are looking for an appropriate hosting solution. It seems that the scalability/flexibility/price allowed by cloud hosting would represent a good start but, as always, it is difficult to get a general picture of the market and it is even more difficult to read objective reviews/past experiences about the different providers.
It looks like Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com) and Gandi.net (https://www.gandi.net) both propose interesting cloud hosting solutions. Did you try them or did you try any other company?
As already mentioned, we are based in Europe, our platform will rest on a standard PHP/BackBone.js/MySQL model and we would like to have the possibility to run a fully customizable server (eg, Debian 6 64bit).
Thanks in advance for your input!