YC W12 startups' hosting decisions

[ojiikun]

I am floored that so many supposedly top-notch hackers would use GoDaddy. Iff the data are correct, this certainly colours my perception of YC-generation folk.

[Udo]

Apparently they only use it for DNS stuff though, the number of people using it for actual web hosting seems small.

[waterlesscloud]

Or it might be a sign of prioritizing the allocation of decision-making energy.

[zumda]

I'm surprised that none of them use Heroku. It seemed to be the darling of the startup community for some time.

[olalonde]

It is included within Amazon. I'm not sure how I could extract that information (does Heroku have a known static IP range?). Right now, the script uses the following command and looks up under OrgName: whois -h whois.arin.net 'n ip-address-here'.

[chriseidhof]

Me too. But I suspect that they might be, it's probably contained within the Amazon sector.

[adityar]

How did you generate the graphs?

[iaskwhy]

Not sure if this is exactly what you were asking but it's using Google Chart Tool: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/index