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Originally Posted by doublec
I'm considering AWS - I use them already in another project. I'm not sure how they react to a DDOS (in terms of support) and their handling of Wikileaks is a point against them - Wikileaks recently tweeted about namecoin and bitcoin being important and it would be sad to have AWS shut down bitcoin/namecoin related activities by association.
That is something I hadn't considered with AWS, but I think wikileaks is a pretty extreme case. I haven't heard of other cases of AWS shutting down sites without a clear TOS violation.
That being said you'll need reliable off site backups and possible DR options available with any host you choose.
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Originally Posted by ChazDazzle
FWIW, as someone who was also new to sysadmin stuff, I've found Rackspace to be very user friendly.
Rackspace is top notch and has been that way for at least 6-7 years. Great management and support. Also, it's probably worthwhile at this point to pay for someone with greater sysadmin abilities than yourself.
Your exchange and pool are both the standard right now, so attacks on either will start to decrease confidence in them. You can be both Tycho and Tux of the namecoin world if you play it smart
Those guys are both making pretty good money off this.