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Webbynode
Company blog · webbynode.com/articlessystemsdata
Webbynode is the company blog at webbynode.com, writing about systems and data. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this hosting company's site for its VPS plans with ready-made Rails, Django and Node.js stacks, and for a provider comparison page. The comments discuss the service rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Same VPS plan. Same region. Results don’t always match. 300+ repeated benchmarks across regions — measured over time, not single runs.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-12-20
- Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-11
- Webbynode shutting down at the end of March2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-23
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for your comments! You're most welcomed to give us a try. Is this the video you mentioned: http://www.webbynode.com/screencasts/webbynode-sixreasons.mo... ?
Comment linking /screencasts/webbynode-sixreasons.mov
on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP as a story · 23 points
HN discussionOn my hosting start-up: http://webbynode.com . I am the programmer behind our Manager app. :-) Our main difference is providing ReadyStacks for easy bootstrap of servers: watch the screencast for more info here - http://webbynode.com/railsvimeo .
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Linode's $12 VPS Didn't Outperform Its $5 Plan in Six Fresh Deployments as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBefore Heroku, I used Webbynode ( http://webbynode.com ). It has root access and much more, all you need, and it's not expensive. They're also very good.
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on “Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?”Submitted Hetzner Prices Rose 187–250%. The CPUs Barely Moved: 24 VM Deployments as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's also http://webbynode.com/ They have ready-made stacks with Node.js, Rails and Django.
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on “NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform”Submitted A $6.49 Cloud VM Became One of Our Highest-Ranked Clusters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionwebbynode http://webbynode.com
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on “Ask HN: Which hosting company to use for a small SaaS product?”Submitted We benchmarked Google Cloud's $512 VM – the speed wasn't the interesting part as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey might be cheaper than Slicehost, but they're more expensive than Linode. Also, some of the questions you have are answered (possibly not in the best format): http://webbynode.com/questions#linuxdistro http://webbynode.com/images/readyapp_01.png
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on “Webbynode launches - hosting for Rails, Django or LAMP”Submitted Bang for Buck #4: $18 Exoscale VPS scored 104, yet CPU varied 2.6× as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFREE: appfog - https://www.appfog.com/ dotcloud - http://dotcloud.com CHEAP: webbynode, $15 entry level plan - http://webbynode.com digital ocean, $5 entry level plan - https://www.digitalocean.com/ I've used appfog and it works alright. I am a paying customer for webbynode and like it a lot. Easy to deploy, ssh access, flexibility. $15 might be more than you want to pay, I've not tried digital ocean, but it seems l…
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on “Ask HN: What is a good way to host a Rails app for free? Or very cheap?”Submitted Cloudpylon Compares VPS Prices. Webbynode Measures Actual Performance over Time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and command line to do basic things, but beyond that I have some trouble. After doing research to find a better hosting option I went with Webbynode. http://webbynode.com I use it for my rails based startup padseeker.com. It makes pushing code via git as easy as…
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on “Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?”Submitted Interesting 156% Price Bump Timing on the Hetzner VM We Just Wrote About as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPopular VPS providers (AWS, Azure, Contabo, DigitalOcean, Exoscale, Google Cloud, Hetzner, Ionos, Linode, OCI, ScaleWay, TenCent, Vultr, etc.) comparison: https://webbynode.com/providers
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on “Linode's $12 VPS Didn't Outperform Its $5 Plan in Six Fresh Deployments”Submitted DigitalOcean's NYC region looked fine – until we ran it again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently started using http://www.webbynode.com/ and like it a lot. Plans start at $9.99 for 256 MB, 12 GB of storage, and 150 GB/mo of transfer.
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on “Ask HN: Best+cheapest Linux VPS?”Submitted Bargain? We Tested Scaleway's $8 VPS in Amsterdam and Warsaw as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWebbynode. Competitive plans, Ready Stacks and Community Stacks will be a killer feature. http://www.webbynode.com
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on “Slicehost or Linode”Submitted Webbynode Bang for Buck: Hetzner CPX22 at $23, Still a Bargain? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can a $5 VPS Run an AI Agent 24/7? We Tested Linode's Nanode in LAX Three Times as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same $24 AWS Lightsail VM, Different Bang for Buck by Region as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Bought the Same $20 Vultr VM Six Times. One Was 5× Slower as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A $14.73 VM Outperformed More Expensive Cloud Instances as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Starting To Trust Some Clusters - OCI Has Two Of Them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oracle Cloud's $304 Flex VM: First Observations from Fresh Deployments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seoul: AWS and Google Cloud Kept Failing the Same Network Path? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Testing Reveal: Linode G8 Singapore CPUs Are Great/One Network Path Is Not as a story · 2 points
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