Hackers and Founders

Tech Talk: Choosing the Right Infrastructure Provider

November 14, 2012 · 6:30 PM
NextSpace Union Square

New Agenda

6:00-ish to 7:00 PM

If you're in the area, feel free to stop by and hang out
When you arrive, tell the Security guard you're going to NextSpace on the 2nd floor. He has to operate the elevator for you
You could always help me set up chairs ;)

7:00 to 8:15 PM

Presentation - Telemachus Luu, NephoScale
Q&A

8:15 PM

Bring your beer money and head downstairs to the City Pub and Grill with us.
Have one on one time with the presenter
Or just hang and shoot the breeze

NextSpace Union Square is practically on top of the Powell BART station on the corner of 5th and Market at 1 Hallidie Plaza, 2nd Floor, San Francisco.

If you're driving, you might want to park in the 5th and Mission garage.

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TL;DR Tech talk on scalable web infrastructure as a service.

Get $6,000 of free web hosting over 6 months
- H/F Perks Invite here
Talk to Telemachus, if you'd be interested in a pure SSD based scriptable cloud VPS
BTW... H/F doesn't get kickbacks or affiliate fees from NephoScale. We just like the service

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A couple years ago when I was in "build a search engine" mode, I spent a lot of time nerdgasming about high availability infrastructure, scalability, etc...

I've been rolling my own PC's, boxes and servers for a while, and frankly, it's ton of fun.

I was also frustrated at the lack of SSD based offerings with cloud services. AWS and EC2 have painfully low IOPS on their vanilla Elastic Block.

So, I wanted a provider that offered SSD based dedicated servers as well as scriptable cloud VPS as well.

I ended up choosing NephoScale.

Telemachus is the founder and CTO, and we've spent a ton of time talking about these topics. Telemachus has been doing infrastructure stuff for well over a decade. Bruce his co-Founder landed Industrial Light and Magic's ( yeah, that I.L.M. ) network services contract in a past life and is a total baller.

I love what they're doing.

So, we've worked with NephoScale to offer H/F startups that qualify in our community $6k worth of free hosting. ( H/F Perks Invite link here) and asked Telemachus to give a Tech Talk. Hope you learn a lot. -- Jonathan

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nick peterson

Tech Talk was very good! It was great to listen to the CTO of Infrastructure as a Service company talk about what goes on behind the scenes in the hosting industry. Very informative.

0 · November 15
Alan Hannan

Sales talk not even thinly disguised.

0 · November 14
Matthew Martin

The talk had good baseline material which was well organized, but the presentation was a bit dry. I suggest more imagery, diagrams, etc... Also, the speaker read directly from notes. Try to ad-lib a bit more. Try not to read the content on the slides verbatim since people in the audience can read faster than you can speak and you'll start to lose your audience. :-)

0 · November 14