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arkitaip on July 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? MixRank (YC S1...

Thank you. Any reason why you didn't go with a VPS, AWS or GAE? Because I'm thinking of creating a web app in Python and hosted solutions seem like a good deal.

smilliken on July 1, 2011 [–]

If it weren't for our high requirements we'd be on a hosted solution. That being said, we're considering a few hosted options for our future infrastructure.

iamelgringo on July 1, 2011 | [–]

Use SSD's on dedicated hardware. Don't use EC2 unless you really, really need to spin up tons of instances.

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