Help me find a blog post on web hosting!

May 24, 2009 7:56 PM

Where did I read about a semi-famous blogger and entrepreneur's advice on webhosting?

I feel a bit like an asshole, because I rather to hate self-promotional crap and bloggers / entrepreneurs are precisely that, and this question will only serve to feed that behavior. Still, I forgot to bookmark it and it was semi-helpful.

I can't recall who the author was, but it's some sort of web 2.0 or startup person, who has, you know, done this before.

The thrust of the article was how to conserve capital and build a website; they went through the specific pricing, with specific providers per month for DNS registration and management, network traffic, virtual hosting, etc. The end result was something reasonably affordable and maybe even cheap.

I ran into it bored one day at the various Mindless Link Propagation sites like reddit, hacker news or digg a month or two ago; I can't find it on reddit, hacker news has no search and digg is flooded with spam.

posted by pwnguin to computers & internet (6 answers total)

Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day?
posted by Memo at 8:08 PM on May 24, 2009 [1 favorite]

Hmm. With the correct answer in at 12 minutes, I'm tempted to leave this open to see what else comes in.
posted by pwnguin at 8:15 PM on May 24, 2009

Memo: thanks!
posted by pwnguin at 8:39 PM on May 24, 2009

He doesn't update it much, but Number One has another blog.
posted by theora55 at 9:26 AM on May 25, 2009

I'm not really looking for advice on startups; but the article did feature specific prices which was unusual, and I have some of the same personal needs: root account at a colo/vps site on the cheap for a website and hosting tech demos on something more powerful than my ARM NAS. And if I hit upon a major surge in traffic, it'd be nice to scale up to accommodate it (and maybe cover costs).
posted by pwnguin at 1:33 PM on May 25, 2009

I was a little surprised to see a recommendation for godaddy, when almost nobody clueful on MeFi has a good word to say about them.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 7:14 PM on May 25, 2009