I don't know if your referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795 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.
Thanks--that looks better than the thread from 148 days ago I had bookmarked (whatever date that happens to be):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011
Is there a search function here I'm missing? I did search for search to parse prior posts but withdrew without the words of the most.