1) Most problems can, but shouldn't necessarily be, solved with adding more servers.
2) SYS & Kimsufi are just OVH resellers. Same datacenters just the last generation of hardware under a different brand.
3) Hetzner is great for if you want to serve up content from the EU. Great ping times all across there. (Your friends over the pond will thank you)
4) OVH is a huge, and very reliable, hosting company. I don't think there's anything wrong with them. They also do supply such an auto-scaling API.
5) You don't necesarily need to run mission-critical systems on a traditional hosting solution to see big savings. Move your high-compute/high-bandwith programs onto a dedicated server and save big. This is really great for batch analytics type systems where after a day of operation, you dump a backup file and want to pull some data out of it for the morning. It's great for dev systems and thousands of other non-mission-critical systems.
1) Most problems can, but shouldn't necessarily be, solved with adding more servers.
2) SYS & Kimsufi are just OVH resellers. Same datacenters just the last generation of hardware under a different brand.
3) Hetzner is great for if you want to serve up content from the EU. Great ping times all across there. (Your friends over the pond will thank you)
4) OVH is a huge, and very reliable, hosting company. I don't think there's anything wrong with them. They also do supply such an auto-scaling API.
5) You don't necesarily need to run mission-critical systems on a traditional hosting solution to see big savings. Move your high-compute/high-bandwith programs onto a dedicated server and save big. This is really great for batch analytics type systems where after a day of operation, you dump a backup file and want to pull some data out of it for the morning. It's great for dev systems and thousands of other non-mission-critical systems.