Hosting for Your Startup, Side Project, or Big Dollar App

We all know hosting options are more diverse now than ever before. Get a download of the latest providers and solutions for your project of any size. Consider:

*IaaS (by the virtual machine) or PaaS (by the application) models*

Implications for entry cost, scaling, maintenance, caveats.

*Building or Buying on a Per-Feature Basis*

Considerations when determining whether to use public cloud higher-order services vs. building and maintaining your own. Consider databases, queues, load balancers, storage, and more.

*Hosting Provider Review*

From the big cloud providers to some small niche players that may be new to you, evaluate their performance, pricing, and capabilities.

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1. HOSTING FOR YOUR STARTUP, SIDE PROJECT, OR BIG DOLLAR APP MY JOURNEY ACROSS HOSTING PROVIDERS AS A CONSUMER AND IN SALES Keith Resar @KeithResar
2. @KeithResar Keith Resar: Bio Wear many hats @KeithResar Keith.Resar@RedHat.com Coder Open Source Contributor and Advocate Infrastructure Architect
3. BUILD VS. BUY Always comes down to trading money for time (this will be a common theme today) • Your Technical Capability • Vendor Portability • The Eventual Corner Cases @KeithResar
4. IAAS VS. PAAS The ultimate build vs. buy @KeithResar
5. USE CASES FOR OUR SESSION myblog.com Low resource consumption Dozens of posts, Dozens of readers @KeithResar
6. USE CASES FOR OUR SESSION appointment.one SaaS app Web and API Front-end Variable traffic Large real-time data backend Cyclic batch workload Revenue impacting outages @KeithResar
7. USE CASES FOR OUR SESSION email-format.com Large data app Web and API Front-end Variable traffic Large real-time data backend Cyclic batch workload Revenue impacting outages @KeithResar
8. IAAS
9. WHAT COMES WITH IAAS @KeithResar
10. VENDOR SELECTION CRITERIA @KeithResar BIG PUBLIC CLOUD LITTLE PUBLIC CLOUD (VPS) PHYSICAL HOSTING
11. IAAS VENDOR ANALYSIS @KeithResar Cloud VPS Server Core Services Compute, Storage, IO, Network Metered Fixed Fixed Higher Order Services Data, LTM/GTM, Metered Some No Integrations Marketplace, API Support Deep Some No
12. IAAS USE CASE ANALYSIS VPS - $5/mo Cloud - $15 @KeithResar VPS - $25 Cloud - $50 VPS - $80 Cloud - $500 Server - $100 The Blog SaaS App High-Traffic Site
13. PAAS
14. WHAT COMES WITH PAAS @KeithResar
15. VENDOR SELECTION CRITERIA @KeithResar BIG PUBLIC CLOUD DEDICATED
16. PAAS USE CASE ANALYSIS Free Tier Eligible @KeithResar Hosted - $100 Private - $100 Hosted - $500 +Externalized processing The Blog SaaS App High-Traffic Site
17. @KeithResar @KeithResar THANKS!