Hello,

I want to build something like WEBS.com, WIX.com, Weebly.com type of offering. Two things are important for users:
a) As user creates an account, they choose to start from a design template. Using scripts it will get them a user-site-id@mywebbuilder.com and the corresponding sourcefiles/db are cloned from a template
b) Users may increase hosting package as they grow with a click, and it should be easy to provision the updated resources just for their site.


My question is:
1. Is Linode appropriate for that kind of business in general? I.e provide end-user hosting for ready-made sites, which they can upgrade in future?
2. Say if I had 1000 clients with basic usage only! Is is better to scale the hardware resources? Or rather scale the numbers of Linodes?

Many say Rackspace/Amazon is best to build this with, but I'm checking if anyone at Linode has done this as I have heart many good reviews from technical folks? Thanks a ton

The nature of cloud applications is that they should be designed to scale horizontally (in number of nodes) rather than vertically (in the size of nodes). You should size your individual nodes so that they function well with your application, but design your application to scale by adding additional nodes as required.