Funny that we'd run into each other here again - Hivelocity is super cheap, I still have a massive, single server there and have used them for ~3 years now and actually all those servers I replaced were with them! They usually have really good specials, incredible value. But their live support is useless, the best thing they can do is log tickets on your behalf for the real support. Most of the time that doesn't matter.
SoftLayer have much better support, geographically diverse locations and a wicked suite of offerings. They're also giving startups $1000/month credit for 12 months, I got almost instantly accepted... I was still asking questions and then the rep was all "I made you an account here's the details".
I wasnt aware about that credit, that's actually really nice!
I used to have a really good deal with SL about 2-3 years ago, and when I was looking around for Sentry they were my first stop. Unfortunately the prices had gone up a lot while I was gone, and for a reasonable DB server it was looking to be pretty pricey.
How many nodes did you say you were going to use that you got accepted so fast? I've been using Rackspace Cloud and AWS for small demo deploys, but we are still shopping around for a cloud provider.
It may have helped that we were already on ~12 servers but I don't think they're discriminating, they have terms like unused credit not rolling over so they can't be expecting everyone to use it all.
SoftLayer have much better support, geographically diverse locations and a wicked suite of offerings. They're also giving startups $1000/month credit for 12 months, I got almost instantly accepted... I was still asking questions and then the rep was all "I made you an account here's the details".
https://www.softlayer.com/partners/catalyst