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[{"user_id": 17654, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305122301.841289, "message": "I'm currently evaluating different hosting solutions for my django project and I was wondering if anyone ever deploy on linode. Obviously it needs to be able to scale.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1007468}, {"user_id": 17654, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305122392.825552, "message": "Or should I forget linode, bite the bullet and deploy right away on AWS(or equivalent)?", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1007474}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305133260.893512, "message": "They're both virtualization platforms.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1010305}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140478.211071, "message": "And flexibility is really nice; want to test out a change to your app? Spin up a perfect clone of your production instance with a different IP, test stuff out, nuke it when you're done, and you've only spent a few cents and never had to file a support ticket", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012296}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305159010.5143981, "user_id": 141}], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140349.995749, "message": "er...difference between *AWS*/etc and \"traditional\" VPS systems (including Linode)...", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012261}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140539.442786, "message": "But as mentioned, one could argue that you'll have more uptime problems with AWS/Rackspace Cloud/etc, and a smaller traditional host like Linode or Rimuhosting will \"care more\" about having your individual instance always running.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012312}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140560.4502549, "message": "/huge rant", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012320}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140557.8349659, "message": "That said, I and many others have had long running AWS/RSC instances with no serious problems, so it's not like they have a built in Chaos Monkey (yet)", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012318}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140440.8630459, "message": "\"Cloud\" providers are going to be more useful job-wise because they require at least a little bit of additional skill set on top of just administering a remote Unix box, and thus you'd have a new marketable skill", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012289}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140332.5582919, "message": "The difference between Linode and \"traditional\" VPS systems is that they tend to charge you per month for long-running instances (though Linode and its competitors are increasingly being more flexible about spinning up/shutting down/modifying instances, due to pressure from the cloud)", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012255}, {"user_id": 4156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305140399.661962, "message": "AWS/etc, \"cloud\", providers charge by the minute and are way more flexible about how/when you create/destroy/modify instances, at the (occasional) loss of availability due to immense scale and the assumption your app is going to be resistant to individual node failure", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1012274}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305150358.378089, "message": "@juliengrenier however, if you want the scalability without having to engineer that yourself, you might want to try out DjangoZoom which is a deployment and hosting platform built specifically with the needs of Django developers in mind.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1015005}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305150310.643683, "message": "@juliengrenier I've used Linode in the past and they were very reliable and good performance for the price.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1014989}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305150391.6219759, "message": "@juliengrenier Mention that you started this thread, and I'll send you a beta invite. http://djangozoom.com", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1015018}, {"user_id": 8391, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34743, "date_created": 1305177703.5374279, "message": "@juliengrenier @natea http://ep.io", "group_id": 5283, "id": 1020249}]