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£15,000 of Free Hosting for a Year - UK Only! (4)

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Hi fellow STM-ers!

I'm heading up a startup initiative in London at the moment and have access to a hosting scheme where you can get up to £15,000 worth of cloud hosting for a year with a well known hosting company.

My team is using it for all our campaigns and it's serving us very well indeed.

This offer is open to anyone with a registered UK limited company. Please PM me if you want in and I'll do my best to hook you up.

Cheers,
risingchamp!

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Can you explain more about this?

E.g. why would someone consider this hosting as opposed to using Ramnode/Linode/DigitalOcean?

If you're running enough volume to have $1000+ per month server costs then it's likely that $1000/mo is not a big expense (hence the pertinent question: what advantage does this cloud hosting offer?).

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Can you post some more details about this?

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- to be honest, simply because it's free. Also if you're like me and like playing around with new technology, it's pretty fun spinning up different servers and installing different apps and running them on fast servers, etc. Btw the company is Rackspace Cloud and they have a load of different cloud services similar to AWS (SSD instances, CDN, and if you're into all that stuff they have Hadoop, message queues etc etc).

- I suppose what's in it for the hosting company is that they want to attract startup businesses and encourage them to use their cloud instances. The aim being that after the first year they're successful enough where they'll keep their sites on the same infrastructure and start spending bigger. And as you rightly pointed out, hosting spend should be the last of their worries by then. So in answer to your question - id say this is more for newbies and starters if you're already at the point where hosting costs are negligible.

Hope that helps!

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