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Actually, its Amazon EC2, and it's a service they provide where you rent virtual machines by the hour. You can run any software you want on them.
It's hard to be sure, but I'd guess that we'd spend less per month on that than on our dedicated server.
I'll have to plug our numbers into their calculator and see where we fall. Looks very fancy.
For the startups it's particularly attractive, since money they spend on their own hardware is money wasted if they end up being acquired by a bigger company with it's own server farms. They also have the option to ramp up and down fairly quickly in case they get slashdotted.
I keep hearing really good things about A Small Orange. The prices on this page are per year.
They have no PostgreSQL. What's with the hating?
Though MySQL may have caught up.
Remind me of the particular reasons for the MySQL hate-on, again? A lot of things have changed in the most recent versions.
(also, noting that "hate-on" is an exaggeration for not-very-humorous effect -- but what particular features are you looking for from a switch to Postgresql?)
The specific issue I'd had with MySQL no longer exists--they have caught up on the stored procedure front, for example. At the last inspection the only thing is that I'd started to re-architect the systm in PostgreSQL and used some features that it had that MySQL didn't. It's not a real investment, since the rearchitecture is mostly paperware at this point.
I am left with a residual "Hmm?" when PostgreSQL is excluded, though. Just on principle.
Spoiler font leakage in Spoilers lite.
Seriously? I checked and I used the short-cutty "s" command instead of the other thing.
PostgreSQL is generally lacking from web hosts, in a similar fashion to Ruby. A majority of hosts are either LAMP or IIS with MS SQL server.