My friend Per Jonsson started http://www.startawebbhotell.se/ just recently.

Here’s how it works:

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I recently started joining classes on Startup School and it is very good. They are using Adobe’s Connect Pro Meeting, so you get a video feed from the lecturer and you get to interact either by typing or speaking/asking questions. See you in class!

Load Impact gives you the opportunity to see whether your website will be able to stand different loads. By registering you can test your website for free and save the results from up to 5 runs.

They also have different plans for different loads and different tools.

When you think about it, there are a lot of web services and software that just never gets out of “beta”. Even though they at times charge the same amount that was going to be charged when it’s released. It’s like everyone is scared of saying it’s a live 1st version. “What if it crashes or won’t work and we call it v.1?” Big deal.

It’s like if Volvo would start selling a new car, calling it V90 Beta. Then when the journalist asks them why they would say something like “Yeah, we’re not sure yet if the breaks are completely ok, but let’s see.”

I just think that either you release something and charge for it, or you stick with beta until you are comfortable with the service/software and then start charging. If you need money, then ask people to donate and give something back to them.

Bob Warfield, executive vice president of products at Helpstream, blogged about their success using Amazon Web Services.

Meanwhile, I can’t imagine why startups are fooling around with their own data centers. Easy for me to say, we were too just one short week ago!

Read his post on:
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/one-week-later-on-amazon-web-services/

ZDNet features their migration in an article here: Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint.

The biggest pop is clearly hardware costs. Helpstream reckons it will deliver savings of 59 percent overall by moving to Amazon. Anecdotally, Warfield noted that customers have seen a performance improvement.

Loopia is running a Christmas Special on .se domains. 9 SEK per domain.

https://www.loopia.se/