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Poll: How many servers is your startup running on?

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I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything. It depends what stage they are in. We are a startup, bootstrapping with our own money, and went private beta about 2 weeks back, so we are on one VPS, where db, 2 RoR apps, transcoding, blog, mail, queueing server, storage, everything on it. Its far from real scenario, where (hopefully) some day we'll be serving thousands, if not millions, of users.

I am not sure what your purpose with this poll, but I don't think the results are indicative of anything.

The poll results, being voluntary response convenience sample results, would of course tell us nothing reliable about what most start-ups, or the typical start-up, does for hosting its services.

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...

But the poll gets us talking, and the forced choice among the responses gets me thinking about what other choices I have. And your response about what issues a person has to think about when making these choices is a very helpful response to the poll.

We have 10 EC2 servers. We use a front end proxy for traffic management, and multiple App servers behind it. We have 2 db servers (master and slave), a couple memcached servers, and a mail server.

"“Slicehost” and “slice” are trademarks of Slicehost, LLC" -- Slicehost.com website footer.

I run off of VPS accounts hosted with various VPS providers (vpsfarm and linode.)

Hey, thats good to know another person on vpsfarm. We are on it too. And I think they provide excellent value for money, esp we spending from our own pocket, definitely its a service I would recommend any DIY kinda guy to bootstrap. If anyone needs to learn more, send me a mail from my profile, will be happy to tell you what I know. (disclaimer: I don't get paid by vpsfarm for these stmt).

3 slices. 1 for the main site, 1 for the blogs (largely separate just so that failures can't cost me money), 1 for development projects.

I use dedicated servers located at colo4dallas.com and cloud computing with Amazon Web Services.

Shared hosting for now. I have Bluehost but we will be getting 1 dedicated server soon.

Slicehost. 1 slice for production DB, 1 slice for web, and 1 slice for testing.

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