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MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel
- benologist 15y agoAwesome work guys, congratulations! Anyone who wants to leverage MongoDB without the massive headache of learning all the intricacies yourself (in addition to actually running and developing your startup) should check them out, we've been using them for a long time for all of our player data like leaderboards and user created levels, can't recommend them enough.
- vyrotek 15y agoOff topic, but I some how knew I'd find a comment from you here. It sounds like you're still happy with their service. That's good to hear. :)
- benologist 15y agoYup, still loving them. The gigabytes keep coming in too, our main database there is ~20 gig now.
- kennystone 15y agoNot saying MongoHQ isn't a nice service, but Mongo is about the easiest database I've ever used...
- benologist 15y agoUsing it is not the hard bit. The hard bit is when it falls over, they know what they're doing and can fix it before I even find the right terms to google. We have 6 servers, a bunch of software spread across them, an immense volume of data arriving every second of every day, and a couple thousand users to take care of. It is really nice to "just use" MongoDB and enjoy all the benefits of it without adding their job to my own.
- MPiccinato 15y agoCongrats MongoHQ! Been using their service for my app and have been completely happy with them. Great support also.
- mrkurt 15y agoOh nice. I've been super happy using MongoHQ for bunches of apps. Everything from big Ars projects to crazy little side experiments.
- fraserharris 15y agoGeneral question: these reports often state that YC took part in the funding. Does this refer to small investment as part of YCombinator, or some follow-on money?
- thedob 15y agoCongrats to MongoHQ. I often wonder why the hosted Mongo services aren't offering dedicated servers yet. It seems like an easy opportunity to provide service, automation, and monitoring value add at a high price point. Is the thinking that most customers who would opt for the dedicated instance would just run it themselves to save money?
- dblock 15y agoMonogoHQ is already doing this, not yet at scale. We're using one of those systems right now and have been nothing but pleased with MongoHQ - we've had occasional technical issues, but their team seems to be learning fast from these.
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- martinciu 15y agoCongrats MongoHQ! I am about to use your service.
- daniel_levine 15y agoCongrats, I'm a big fan! Careful on the 100% uptime though
- jasonmccay 15y agoAdmittedly, I think that something was lost in translation during the conversation. We are working with the writer to update that phrasing.
- daniel_levine 15y agoI figured that might have happened :)
- sgrove 15y agoThese guys are really on the ball, and have great empathy for their users/customers. I'd certainly bet money on them.
- wunderfool 15y agosorry, i need my dbs to be close to my middle tier, at worst on the LAN if noton the same switch. i just can't see what is compelling about a db on the WAN.
- meghan 15y agoCongrats Jason & Ben. This is great for the MongoDB ecosystem.
- nodesocket 15y agoCongratulations Jason and Ben!
- _pius 15y agoThese guys are awesome ... great service and nice people. Congrats!
- jwang815 15y agoCongrats guys!
- sim0n 15y agoCongrats guys! We switched over to you a couple of months back and the service has been great so far :)
- becomevocal 15y agoCongrats! Just signed up for the free plan to dabble. Looks great so far. Very easy to manage.
- tgandrews 15y agoI use their heroku addon. I had an issue on a Sunday evening and was not expecting it to be fixed until Monday. I went to watch a TV programme and come back 15 minutes later (ad break) to find that they had already fixed it! Congrats guys, you are awesome.