Via Hacker News — Updated YC Company Hosting Stats. A Ruby script was used to extract out all the startups that Y Combinator invested in, get their IP addresses, and then do a WHOIS to find out who owns the IP block. Interesting result:
- SliceHost: 14
- SoftLayer: 14
- Amazon (on EC2): 13
- Rackspace: 4
- ThePlanet: 3
- GoDaddy: 3
- ServerBeach: 2
- Pair Networks: 2
- …
Then the whole HN discussion turns into SliceHost vs. Linode, as there is only 1 YC funded startup on the list that’s hosted on Linode. I am more surprised that there are more start ups using GoDaddy than Linode.

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Most (all?) of them were likely donated/sponsored to YC (with terms).