Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP

My initial thoughts (literally - written as I'm browsing the site and things pop into my head):

It's a tad more expensive than Linode, although offering slightly different plans, and a tad less expensive than Slicehost for many plans.

The ReadyStack is neat, but I'd have to see if it's how I'd want my stack. I guess I shouldn't gripe about having to spend a few dollars to get a ready-made stack as long as it's the stack I'd want (which would be Ubuntu based). Also, why do I have to have phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin? That means that I have a walking security vulnerability on my server as well as having to have PHP on my box even if I'm not using it.

There's no information about high availability IP failover situations. Not important for a lot of people, but still.

No Amex acceptance? My company only gives us Amex charge cards. If I recommend this, it would mean putting it on my personal card and filing for reimbursements each month. Not what I want to do.

Location? Slicehost is St Louis and now Dallas-Ft Worth via Rackspace's data center. It's nice to know. Linode even lets you choose where which can be neat, if not that functional for many.

Why should I go with a new company when Linode and Slicehost are so well established with a long track record? No great answer.

No backups yet. It's a huge selling point for my IT director on Slicehost and Linode has it in beta now.

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Well, that was my impression browsing the site. It looks really slick, but is there a reason to cause me to change? prgmr.com offers significantly cheaper prices which gives me some reason (even if they have drawbacks). That's really where I am. There's no big reason to choose Webbynode over alternative providers because I'm comfortable installing my own stack. But there might be lots of people who would want that ease.

Looks slick. Looks like great work done. Looks like it will be good for people, but not what I need. Good luck! Always nice to see more competition in this space!

I love innovation in a market that doesn't see enough of it. It is great to have options of medium complexity between Slicehost & etc "In the beginning, there was an Ubuntu install. Then God looked upon the bare server and said, sudo apt-get rubygems, and it was good." and Heroku & company managed environment cloud solutions.

One bit of friendly advice: you'll see a lot of people here attach great importance to the difference between $15 and $20. It is very difficult to build a business on this kind of customer, since they will also attach great importance to the difference between $12 and $15 when somebody comes along and offers it next week.

Slightly cheaper than Slicehost ...

Sadly they don't have a detailed description on what you get (ie. which linux distros are available, their ReadyStack(TM), fix IP, backup).

Wish them good luck, might check back later.

Hey guys,

Our servers are located in Miami, FL. We've received some great feedback from your comments. If you have any questions please email me at carlos at webbynode or @cartab

Thanks!

One thing they seem to do that is different is a less than 20$/month low end. Maybe that will help with impulse, "hey I'd love a slice to mess with" purchases.

We're intending to launch our hosting service targeted at Django users shortly.

Highlights of our service include a separate MySQL cluster (databases on a VPS don't perform so well) and a proper SLA.

More info at http://kutoken.com/

I clicked around a bit and couldn't see where their servers are located. I assume they don't (yet) offer multiple locations like Linode and Slicehost.