jameshk

I have tried stuff like that and want HN's opinion.

If these are cheap enough (someone said $200 a pop with bulk discounts) then cloud providers will get a big boost.

Thanks!

The next step is highways!

What's your email?

Anyone else?

That's actually not a horrible idea!

I will in just a sec.

Hmm...This post just disappeared from the front page and the ask section, any ideas why?

I have experience with more high-end systems, but my budget is small.

I'll be host VPS's so it would be inefficient, thanks though.

I am planning on hosting VPS's, so should I get my own server(s)?

Also, would it not be inefficient to virtualize a virtual machine on a virtual machine?

To host user's sites?

I'm creating a hosting company, like Heroku and can't be hosting my customers stuff on another company's servers, thanks for the advice though. Also there are some cheap $99 servers that might get the job done.

Sub-question for everyone: on some of the links people posted there were great deals, but the server's had DDR2 RAM, would performance be decreased significantly?

A nice option, thanks!

Useful info, thanks.

Thanks, but I prefer small, cheap 1U's because this first server is just a test run/demo, and also because it's easier to scale.

I'll check them out, thanks.

I'm trying to start a hosting startup, and feel it would be out of the question to use a provider for my use-case.

I have tried to configure a server on newegg, but the price with the lowest end AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon was too high, and if I go consumer-grade the mobo's quality goes down allot.

I'm ok with used, and the current suggestions have been more than helpful, although I took your advice and changed the price range to $700-1000.

I mean real physical hardware, like an HP server you buy and setup yourself.

Want to start a startup, got rejected or accepted to YC, read this yet again. The advice will be priceless.

I also meant easter eggs like changing the Y logo to something else once you have enough karma.

I know there are others, like changing the header color.

For everyone who get rejected: don't give up. keep working on your startup and apply next batch, even Drew Houston got rejected the first time.

They should at least give us some more info, like which openssl version their running (if they use openssl)

Can YC company's get office hours with Patrick?