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[{"user_id": 22386, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300826749.9464359, "message": "we were looking at linode, slicehost, rackspace, etc. but it still looks like Amazon EC2 give you the most machine for the dollar", "group_id": 81, "id": 411614}, {"user_id": 22386, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300826712.1838839, "message": "What cloud platforms have you guys used that give you the most bang for the buck for a nginx, gunicorn, django, postgresql, memcached deployment?", "group_id": 81, "id": 411601}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300827961.773962, "message": "Amazon, probably for sure, but there ARE other costs.  They charge for bandwidth, for example.  You almost certainly need to have elastic storage to go along with the EC2 instance as well.  The costs CAN be negligible, but they can also add up.", "group_id": 81, "id": 411806}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300828024.2600291, "message": "If you max out a linode instance and use all 16Gb of storage, and all 200Gb of transfer, then  you're getting a better bang for the buck than you would if you were paying for the equivalent on EC2 with a micro instance... I think.", "group_id": 81, "id": 411817}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300834015.4114299, "message": "If you don't have a known, server crunching workload: which ever one requires the least sysadmin time", "group_id": 81, "id": 412554}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300834379.922543, "message": "@acdha And if you are using Chef they should all be the same ;-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 412590}, {"user_id": 1992, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300849775.040606, "message": "if you need [and you almost certainly don't] to spin up lots of instances all the time, go EC2", "group_id": 81, "id": 413683}, {"user_id": 1992, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300919120.635942, "user_id": 141}, {"date_created": 1300944998.543344, "user_id": 214}], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300849835.118386, "message": "otherwise, Linode is great- excellent AND predictable performance, dead simple, out of band diagnostics if you need them", "group_id": 81, "id": 413685}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300894656.9335721, "message": "@coderanger Well, kind of, but I was thinking of situations where you might either use e.g. CloudFront or have to build your own. The easiest Chef recipes are the ones you don't have to use ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 418300}, {"user_id": 3617, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1300920179.3566239, "message": "I'd say Linode is your best bet for starters. You can always expand if you find you have too, but Linode gives you a great deal out the gate.", "group_id": 81, "id": 421463}, {"user_id": 5367, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1301571749.1686139, "message": "I 'm also on linode. Cheapest to get started is rackspace with their 256 MB instance but for me being in Europe the performance diff when switching to linode / London was noticeable.", "group_id": 81, "id": 490811}, {"user_id": 22109, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1301580554.3590679, "message": "Nobody's mentioned WebFaction yet, so I will. While you don't get root access, you can still run whatever you want from your home folder, and the support team is super helpful. I dare say that they're the best shared host out there.", "group_id": 81, "id": 492137}, {"user_id": 22109, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1301580627.6179509, "message": "Yeah, it starts out at $10 a month, but you don't have to do any of the extra system administration, which is worth it in my opinion.", "group_id": 81, "id": 492153}, {"user_id": 141, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1301592517.047848, "message": "it is nice that you don't have to admin as much on webfaction, but the way they have you set up your python path (several additional lib directories) is a bit more annoying than throwing down a virtualenv", "group_id": 81, "id": 493973}, {"user_id": 141, "stars": [], "topic_id": 14542, "date_created": 1301592640.2535391, "message": "also for the app I have there, we keep hitting memory limits trying to run a celery worker, even after getting extra memory allowance for the account", "group_id": 81, "id": 493987}]