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Decent Co-Location or Virtual Server Hosting?
gclef writes "Speakeasy announced recently that they're being bought by Best Buy. Despite all the promises to the contrary, I suspect my ability to host servers in my home is going away soon. Does anyone have hints as to where I can get a reasonable co-lo space or virtual hosting? I don't want to outsource the management of my domains entirely, nor will 'webhosting' be good enough, since I like having control of my own stuff (and like running my own DNS, IMAPS, and other assorted network services). Is there some place that will give me a blank box with an unfiltered connection to the net?"
How much are you willing to pay?
A lot of places are running "Specials" right now, giving you a relatively decent piece of iron but very little bandwidth for ~$100/mo
Other places give you less impressive hardware but more bandwidth for about the same price.
I personally host with Cyberwurx, a p4 3.0, 512mb ram, 80gb hd and 500gb bandwidth for $95/mo, and they'll install your choice of Linux on it, or even boot you into a gentoo live cd so you can roll your own.
If you go that route, put "vanamar" in your referral code!
EV1Servers has done a good job on mine so far. They have lots of options available depending on how much storage space, bandwidth, etc. that you need. You have full root control over your server. They recently merged with ThePlanet, but it does not seem to have affected anything.
Jason
"FORMAT C:" - Kills bugs dead!
waveform.net
When I was recently looking, I found these guys and discovered that they are in my back yard (Troy, Michigan).
$50/month to colo 1U (or a mid tower) and that includes 1000GB of transfer. If you are going to be using more than that, then you might want to look further into the unit cost per GB.
More
Paul Vixie maintains a directory of services providing personal colo for power users. You might find something there to fit your needs.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
I'd recommend reading a site like http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ since it has forums dedicated to this kind of question.
Or you could just google for "vps hosting" or "dedicated hosting" and start working through the plethora of results
Why are you even asking /.? There are places all over the country that do this.
I use Netriplex. They have racks across the country and they will rent you full
or half racks. You need to supply the computers and a switch but you'll have full control.
They provide redundant pipe and power.
VPSLand will give you a VPS Linux Box (w/Debian! or something else if you're inclined) or a windows box for fairly cheap. I used mine for a number of things that SBC or AT&T or whatever they are this month won't let me do. Their terms say that you can do anything but run IRC.
Using the Freedom of Speech while I still have it.
http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/
It started from a thread on the NANOG list, and seems like a good starting point.
$70/month, up to 50 hosts, root access.
details here.
Protector of Capitalist views,
Meorah
If you consider Virtual hosting - I use KnownHost VPS and really like it - you get full access to a Linux instance (albeit on shared hardware) and it's been very stable, customer service is great too.
I'm personally really happy with my Linode For $20/month, I get a UML-based system with 256MB of Ram and a bunch of hard drive space. Granted, it can be a bit slow at times, especially if other users are heavily using your node at the same time. It's perfect for Web/Mail hosting, plus you do have root access, so you can get it to do whatever you want!
Doh!
They were perfect since 2003, without a glitch. They merged with ev1servers, some support latency problems issued. but it appears that they are fixing these matters. reliable - www.theplanet.com
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There's lots of hosting providers and I actually work for one. We provide managed servers, unmanaged servers, VPS, and colo services, send me a message if you need more details.
I moved all of my server stuff to a virtual linux image at linode.com.
The cheapest plans are under $20/mo. and provide plenty of what I need for a box that hosts light web, email and ssh trafic. Connectivity is good and the customer service is great for such a cheap option. The only thing I had to do was get over the mental block of sharing hardware, but over the years they keep raising the amount of memory and other resources (and not the cost) so it performs pretty well. Their remote management tools are pretty slick as well. You get X amount of space, and if you want to use that for 5 different distro images that you swap in and out you can.
One caveat though: linode does not back up your server image, so it's up to you to handle backing up your data. I got burned by being lazy in this regard when my host machine suffered a multiple drive failure hosing the raid set with all of the server images (My plan is 16 to 1 contention, so it was at most 16 people affected). I keep hoping they'll offer a backup service as an add-on where they just snapshot my image every night or something, but nothing so far.
But if you just need a well connected linux box (that you have full root control over), linode is a pretty cost effective solution.
For the important stuff, I use Rackspace. Starts at about $300/month for a decently-specced linux/freebsd box. Network, reliability, and support are top-notch. In the case of major problems like hard drive failures (which are going to happen eventually when you have enough boxes for enough time), they have been incredibly responsive and done everything I could have hoped for in order to get me back up and running ASAP.
For everything else, I use 1and1. Starts at about $100/month for a decent linux/freebsd box. I haven't had any real problems (network outages or hardware failures) in all the years I've been with them, but their support is pretty slow to respond to minor stuff so I'm not sure how they'd be with major issues. They provide remote serial console connections so you can even reboot your machine and run it in single-user mode, nice for doing upgrades and recovering from stupid firewall misconfigurations.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
I use RimuHosting. They are a bit pricey, but they have been unbelievably reliable and their support is actually competent, quick and knowledgeable.
I highly recommend "John Companies" (http://www.johncompanies.com/). I had a FreeBSD virtual private server with them for nearly a year. Reasonable price, excellent service, and no outages. With the VPS, you have root inside a FreeBSD jail. You have full control over your jail.
I used cooplabs.net for quite awhile in San Jose and would probably use them again. I paid a little under $100/mo for a 1U rack with 1mbps. They even went out of their way to drive into the colo facilities and check my server when my hardware was toasted (both of my N+1 hot swappable PSUs died at the same damn time!). And when I shipped them a pair of replacements, they had no problem replacing them for me. In fact, I don't think they even charged me for the time and trouble.
The things I require of a colo are that they don't limit my bandwidth. I want to pay for dedicated bandwidth and no transfer limit. Period. I'm not interest in their hardware or their servers or their operating systems. Just slide my chassis into your rack, plug it in and leave it alone.
Sadly, finding such services -- and reliable ones at that -- are very difficult. Everyone wants you to use their servers in their configurations and pay through the nose to do it. Then they want you to share bandwidth with everyone else and pay per gig transferred. Hell, they even charge for how much storage space you use. As if hard drives are at a premium these days or something.
And if you go it alone. Well. You can't. Usually the smallest unit you can rent from HE.net or similar is a half standing locker apartment. That's usually 16U. Sometimes they require a full 32U or more. That's fine if you have $1,000 or more to spend a month just on the space (not counting the bandwidth), but not so much if you just need place for one or two servers.
I have been using PowerVPS for close to two years. In that time, I have not had a price increase, but the specs of my server have gone up. Last year, the hardware node I was on had some stability issues where it would crash every few days. Rather than leave customers on an unstable box, they moved us to a new server with only a few minutes of downtime. When I decided to switch from Fedora as my OS to CentOS, they built a new VPS for me and gave me a week to move. Their Tech Support has been very helpful. When Cpanel gave me some errors when I tried to rebuild Apache, they helped me almost immediately. Am I satisfied with their service? Absolutely.
Honestly? Think about it; Speakeasy made their market and sold their services based upon their "geek friendly" attitude. Now, I know that Best Buy really screwed up Geek Squad... but first of all that was a different business model, and secondly Best Buy are AWARE of how badly they screwed it up and I doubt they want to do it again any time soon. Of course, I get a lot of my business as an independent consultant from small businesses who tried Geek Squad and need someone to clean up the mess, so I'm a little biased :D
Seriously though, I host on Speakeasy as well... have done for 7 years. I have always loved their service, and even though I get a 3mb/512kbit connection for free through work, I retain my service with Speakeasy because their service is just that good. It's slower than the 3Mb connection (though my upstream on Speakeasy is better), but it's more than good enough for the light web/mail hosting I do on that connection and it allows me to run an NX server so I can get into my home systems if I need to.
Now, I could be wrong about Best Buy not screwing things up... but I for one am willing to give them a shot. If I'm down for a couple of weeks while I move to a colo facility then it'll have little or no impact to me personally... hell I've done that before and had a redirect that sent all email to my GMail account for a week while I rebuilt my server recently. I'm quite happy to play the "wait and see" game, but I am hopeful that the deal with Best Buy will give Speakeasy the money to keep their lights on while at the same time improving their service... not losing focus.
Maybe give them a chance to surprise you?
I've used pair Networks for several domains for years. (I should say I've used their shared hosting, but they'll give you your own box and I've talked to many in the community who have that service).
They are a smaller, discount hosting company, but certainly not the cheapest. You get what you pay for, of course. They own their facilities, unlike much of their competition which resells space in bigger hosting facilities, and run all BSD and mostly FOSS.
On the upside: They have a long track record (over 10 yrs), an excellent reputation (google around), and run their own facilities. Uptime, including their upstream Internet, is excellent; I've never seen it go down. Servers are well maintained; few problems there either. There's also a knowledgeable, helpful, user community, with newsgroups, websites, etc. And they are very geek friendly, and support the FOSS community with donations, mirrors, etc.
On the downside: Live support is only during business hours; they say they monitor an 'urgent' mailbox 24/7, but thankfully I've never had to use it. They are slow with upgrades, often lagging behind the rest of the industry (e.g., system-wide spam filters (which you may not use anyway)), and just as slow fixing bugs. Support technicians always begin with the 'blame the user'/'we don't support that' approaches; if you push them and jump through hoops though, they have more skill than most phone support (e.g., one was running command line MySQL commands) but are overall not impressive and not a good experience. Finally, their smtp servers often end up blocked as spam relays.
In total, I've stuck with them because I have not found anyone better. For my purposes, uptime is most essential, and their uptime is exceptional. If I could a host find who matched the uptime, and offered better support or faster upgrades, I'd move but for the price, I'm not sure there's anyone better. You do get what you pay for.
I highly suggest that you do NOT host with them. The company is corrupt to the core and all the good seasoned technical staff have jumped from this sinking ship.
I've had some dedicated servers with Cari.net for about two years now. While I think some of their setup fees are a little excessive for new hardware (it's reasonable for the initial server setup), their monthly costs are reasonable ($60-$100/month for most machines, though they have other options after that), they have pretty decent support, and they'll install any OS you want for a bit extra in the initial setup cost. After just checking their site, it seems if you'd rather pay more monthly in lieu of setup fees, they're offering that as well.
:)
Anyway, just thought I'd offer my experiences as advice.
They're great. They offer the choice of Linux VMs with RedHat or Debian, or FreeBSD VMs. They also support the open source tools that run their stuff by giving discounts to contributors.
Even through I am no longer with them (decided I didn't need a full VHost anymore so I am just with dreamhost.com) I highly recommend them.
http://www.johncompanies.com
I'm a satisfied Slicehost customer. Their hosting is Xen based, screaming fast, and more affordable than anything else I've seen. They don't do any hand holding, but if you know what you're doing they get out of your way.
This is kind of a silly Slashdot question, just given the fact that you're going to get about a million different answers. Regardless, I'll toss in my vote for Superb[1]. I've had a box coloed there for years without any issues. They have given me a surprising amount of help, even going so far as to connect a KVM-over-IP to one of my servers without me even asking for it after they had exhausted their knowledge of the problem.
p hp
Take a look at their network. It is amazingly good:
http://nsssc.superb.net/information/corenet-info.
robert
[1] http://www.superbhosting.net/
I've been using Colo4Jax, a Jacksonville, Fla. company run by guys who really know what they're doing. I'm using a $30/mo Ubuntu VPS, but they have dedicated hosting as well as a $20/mo CentOS VPS package. I couldn't be happier with the service. I've also almost zero downtime, and when I've noticed that it was down, one email and about a half-an-hour was all it took to get it back up. Read the blurb on its home page, and I'm sure you'll be delighted.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
There are tons of offers and advice at www.webhostingtalk.com , your question has been asked a million times there already.
If you're looking for servers in the NY Metro area I'd recommend www.voxel.net. I've been with Voxel for a few years now, and the experience has been nothing short of stellar. With regard to colocation, they recently opened up another NYC facility just for colocation, and it's sitting on their 10Gbit fiber ring. They don't really have pricing on the site other than their wholesale stuff, but I called and a quick quote yesterday for a half rack and a full rack with 10 amps of power and 10Mbit that was *really* competitive. I have a few servers in their SOHO facility, and my pingtimes and transfer rates from California are seriously comparable to local California vendors.
I've always loved Tera-Byte. A hosting company out of Edmonton, AB, they'll build you a server to taste, or you can send them your own hardware to co-locate. http://web.tera-byte.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=serv ices.colocated
They have a very good reputation, match your specs, and very knowledgeable people answering the phones. They've always been on my shortlist whenever I've had to research hosts (but it's important to say: I've never used them for one reason or another, so my experience is limited). Worth a look, at least: http://he.net/
Fuss & O'Neil Technologies is a good service in CT.
Eapps.com has plans starting at $10 USD a month. What you get is a VPS, with CentOS as the OS. You have root access, and so have full control. They are pretty quick on the Customer Service side, but its rare that you need Customer Service.
The very best of all of these was EV1Servers if you want top notch support. I ended up going with Vaultnetworks due to price. They had a better piece of hardware with more bandwidth, but they're much more "hands off" when it comes to management. This suited me just fine because I'm comfortable rolling out my own patches and fixes (I used cPanel so much of this was done for me anyway).
I've recently "downscaled" my webhosting business to friends-family only, and I was in need of something smaller with the same power. I chose JaguarPC's VPS solution. So far I can say that I'm completely impressed. I ditched cPanel and I signed up earlier in the year for a 1MB unmetered solution and I must say that I "feel" like the server is just as good as the one I paid $130/mo for with VaultNetworks (I'm paying $20/mo with Jag).
Best Support:
EV1: http://www.ev1servers.net/
Better Value:
Vault: http://www.vaultnetworks.com/
Best Cost/Value for what I do:
Jag: http://www.jaguarpc.com/vps-hosting/index.php
I'm also a John Companies customer and am very pleased. I've had 2 other VPS experiences, and I think JC did the best job. They offer email support which is prompt and helpful. They have also gone out of their way on a few occasions to help me with system administration stuff that they really didn't have to do. While I'm at it, I should sing praises to rsync.net, a sister company that does remote file backup space. Having reasonably fast remote backup location has been a godsend...
For a VPS I suggest Slicehost. Xen for 20$/month. AJAX-ified management of your account, console access, DNS, great choice of distributions.
Also a great community on the forums and chat.
I'm with GrokThis.net which offers dedicated, colo, and (xen) vps hosting. We also have a no-frills VPS brand, VPS Village. VPS Village offers accounts starting from $5/mo. Prices for a VPS from GrokThis start from $20/mo.
The difference is that VPS Village lacks the RAID and backups that provides the reliability and assurance that GrokThis.net customers enjoy. GrokThis.net's VPS plans also provide optionally-hosted DNS and email services, useful for customers simply looking to manage their web services. Both services utilize Xen, which means that memory resources are dedicated, not shared, as they are with many non-Xen providers.
Another option that many customers opt for are our Advanced accounts, from $15/mo. We're one of very few providers that provide dedicated web server processes. Customers get their own managed Apache, LigHTTPD, or Zope instance, with their own private configuration file. This is best for customers that are not looking to manage a server, but simply get their complex web configurations online, quickly and easily.
My company does that - Mi-Connect.com - cheap colocation with good service. $49.95 a month with a 400 gig a month transfer limit for a 1u. $89.95 a month for a 4u. I can also do a dedicated server (my equipment, your control) starting at $89.95 a month. And no, I don't do "VSP" type hosting - too much potential for performance hits by having a single "host" getting popular.
My connectivity is good: 1 gig to level-3, OC-12 (620 meg) to Saavis and OC-3 (155 meg) to UUNet.
Ron Gage - Westland, MI
http://www.layeredtech.com/
Rock solid for me. I've got a dual Xeon 2.8 / 2g ram / 2x500g SATA (RAID1). 10mb internet connection with 2(something) terabytes of transfer.
Check out their specials.
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I've used Linode for a few years now. Can't recall any downtime, fast response to one or two questions very early on, IRC 24x7 that always seems to have one of "them" around. But best of all is checking in from time to time and finding my plan now includes "more"; more memory, more disk space, more bandwidth. It's the only reason they give me to reboot.
I just started with a company called cari.net and their service has been exemplary so far. I have really enjoyed working with them.
I was working with a company called valueweb.net and their DNS took a huge hit, and they came out with the statement "DNS is not a guaranteed service" My opinion of them took a hit.
The cari.net server I just turned up was on an IP address that wasn't on any black lists, but I've been getting bounces like this:
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host mx.west.cox.net [68.6.19.3]: 554 fed1rmimpi01.cox.net IMP X1.X.1XX.XX7 is locally blacklisted (Xs inserted by me)
from Cox.net and a similar message from sbcglobal.com. At least SBC has a way off the list, though I haven't had a reply yet. Tom a manager in the Northern Virginia Cox.net call center told me that my domain was on a CIA Domain Black list. Yeah, whatever. I'm still trying to get cox to unblacklist the domain.
--Brett
Reasonable pricing, pretty reliable.
m5hosting.com is great if you don't mind spending $105/mo. Good service, good connectivity, no discernible botnet traffic.
Unless the Colo facility is nearby, I wouldn't go that route. How are you going to troubleshoot a hardware problem or what do you do in case of hardware failure?
/month range. I have a dedicated server at $50/month, myself.
Anyway, I would go for high end VPS or an entry-level dedicated server. You should be able to get something in the $40-$80
I too am a speakeasy customer (for now) but I only host secondary dns/mx on my speakeasy line. I'll drop some names now... some of these places I've used myself, some I have not.
serverbeach.com
1and1.com
vpslink.com
sonic.net/sales/colo/1u/
ev1servers.net / theplanet.com
rackmounted.com
gate.com
superbhosting.net
sevenl.net
hostrocket.com
So I listed mostly ded. providers... for more vps hosts, google "vps hosting" and be overwhelmed.
Try rackmounted.com. For $50/month, this is what I get:
I don't think they offer this configuration anymore, it looks like the cheapest now is $64/month. They do offer colocation for $55/month. You can get any flavor of Linux or BSD and they have very competent techs. You can even have them host a mac mini or xserve for you. Checkout their network setup and facility details. I've had a good experience with them.
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
Anyone have a good resource link for larger scale than this question is covering? Looking for several (up to dozens) of cabinets in multiple locations. Must have multiple gigabit internet access links available. Concerned about cooling and power - cabinets will be dense and I understand some colo sites have had problems in those areas. Cabinet, power and bandwidth pricing are important as well. Not so concerned about location (though U.S. to start), remote hands and so on.
You should check out Mosso, its a really neat platform. www.mosso.com
My website is hosted with linuxvps.org. Gentoo or Debian based vservers. They don't use UML or Xen - they use some paravirtualisation stuff, so you don't have access to kernel functions, and hence no iptables, but it is faster than UML or Xen. And there's always tcpd for restricting access to services via IP.
Get your own free personal location tracker
I've been admiring their prices on partial and full racks, I've toured their data center, but was generally uninimpressed with their setup. Wondering about their uptime and congestion on their network pipes...
As per the subject, both these companies offer virtual machine instances at close to hosting company prices. You get root access to your own dedicated box, static IPs, a rnage of distros (Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD etc.) and an unfiltered net connection.
I have been a happy Bytemark customer for almost 2 years now - I use their basic VM package and run successfully run qmail, tinydns, pureftpd and apache from it. I have heard good things about slicehost and if I was in the market for an additional VM I would try them as their offerings are based around Xen rather than User-Mode Linux.
www.bytemark.co.uk
www.slicehost.com
John Companies http://www.johncompanies.com/ and Tektonic http://www.tektonic.net/ for unmanaged VPS, ServInt http://www.servint.net/ for managed VPS and NetAccess http://www.nac.net/ for colo.
When It Counts.
About six months ago I had a dedicated server with Layeredtech. Apparently AOL didn't like some of the posts on a forum I was hosting - so they complained to SAVVIS, calling the forum a "phishing" site. Even the rep who was checking into the complaint saw that it was not a phishing site, and decided to change the complaint to "Other" - filling in "Hacking site" on the report. Now just to clarify, the content they were complaining about was one thread with people discussing social engineering in general, but mostly just bragging about suspending or unsuspending AOL screennames.
This was apparently enough for layeredtech to label the entire forum as a hacking site, and insist that I remove the domain or have my entire server turned off. I didn't even see the email until they had shut off the server (they only gave me a few hours). Keep in mind this is a thread posted on a forum in the ARCHIVE section - threads that hadn't been posted on in months...
Long and short of it, I complained but they refused to change their stance or even be reasonable about it, so I moved my server out of the country to avoid more issues with AOL making unreasonable demands of my hosting providers. I now colo with PRQ in Sweden - and I've had a very good experience with them.
Please don't comment that I must have had illegal stuff on my forum, because I was very careful about removing warez and porn - file uploads weren't even allowed. It was a blatant quashing of free speech because they were asked to by a large corporation.
... but the last time I checked, they were out of space and weren't selling any more virtual servers.
I found a place a few years ago that was like $20 for a year, but I lost the info I had on them. It was a minimal account-based hosting setup, but it did the job.
I wish domains were cheaper, as it seems like on the really low end of hosting, the domain name seems to be most expensive part.
Method of processing duck feet
Let me add another vote for tektonic.net. I have been using them for a year for my personal mail/web/shoutcast server, and have been very happy.
I have a plan that they no longer offer (128MB Ram for $8/month).
The cheapest I've ever seen is vpsvillage.com, where you can get a low-powered VPS for $5. I haven't used them, so I have no idea how good they are.
Try browsing the VPS forums at webhostingtalk.com, and you'll be able to quickly learn who the players in the game are.
Have you called around locally?
I have been colocating my personal server for nine years. At first, it was just a desktop on steroids. When the ISP went from charging by the network port/device to space, I got a 1U server to keep my costs low. (Colos generally bill by the U.)
In every town I have resided, I went to my phone book and started calling local ISPs. Never have I been disappointed. In every case, the local shop has been less expensive or at least competitive with the national players. Best of all, in the rare case that I had to replace or upgrade hardware (yearly or less often), I was able to do it myself. Service has generally been better than expected.
Granted, a local shop isn't going to be as redundant or as plump in the bandwidth department as a national colocation palace, but it is good enough for me. (And, quite frankly, if you're hositng on your home connection, it'll be good enough for you and substantially better that what you have now.) For those who don't think local ISPs exist anymore, check your phone book. I think you'll be surprised.
Matt
Two missing options so far are
* The Amazon Compute Cluster -- rents you instances of rather high end virtual machines very affordably. A nice feature is that you can run many virtual machines there if you need more capacity; and do this on hourly basis rather than yearly contracts some hosts want you to use. If I recall, Chicago Crime hosts on those.
* Server4You offers a nice cheap dedicated box for $50/month (60G hard drive; 700GB/month bandwidth; some cheap CPU (celeron?)). I use one of these and run 5 virtual servers inside it for 5 of my friends so it works out to $10/month each.
Personally, I've had great luck with GuaranteedVPS -- I have both my personal accounts and my business accounts there, and they give you *complete* control of your box. They have a very large variety of hosting slices, from .5mb/s starter ranging all the way up to 9mb/s (if you need that sort of thing), and cheaper than I've seen elsewhere. Their thing seems to be instead of offering "speeds up to..." they guarantee the minimum speed instead. It's actually a much more accurate way of buying hosting.
Guaranteed bandwidth transfers (no cap), complete control of your box, competitive prices. http://www.guaranteedvps.com
I've had a virtual box on Tummy.com for several years now, iirc. It's hard to be sure since it's been so trouble-free. $25/month.
It's very Linux friendly -- it's the source of Linux Weekly News (lwn) and highly knowledgable if you have questions.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
I should point out that I run a small VPS company called "guaranteed VPS." It's just starting up, but the premise is simple: I don't oversell boxes, ever. I guarantee all five major resources as either minimums or fixed amounts, and I give details that not many companies seem to give regarding the system's configuration. The prices are cheap, there are good discounts for pre-pay, and the bandwidth is awesome.
:D
On the downside, it's a two-man operation, and we both have day-jobs, so the tech support is pretty poor. The actual MegaPOP is awesome, and all the disks are RAID1 pair mirrors, so we're not going to have any downtime because someone didn't hot-swap a dead drive, or whatever, but this is really a service made for people who know how to run their own stuff.
Anyway, it's 21 bucks a month for root and a guaranteed 100k/s at all times, and twelve bucks a month for 50k/s, if you pay a long time up-front. Plans get bigger, too, and discounts get pretty big pretty quick; that 100k/s is called a slice, and if you want to stack slices, I'll give you every third for half off.
Anyway, it's hosting, so there's a million options, and I don't really need to break it down here. Just look at the price chart. My customers seem to be happy with what they're getting. Since you've got root, you can take down Apache and put up something else, if you want (lightstreamer and YAWS come to mind.) Need six million weird programming languages? That's cool, just download and compile them; you've got GCC, perl, whatever you need. 'Course, if it's in RPM or Yum, it's prolly dead simple anyway.
But seriously, it's cheaper than the alternative, namely a dedicated box, if you need funky stuff like Erlang or Rails or Twisted Python or whatever, and I'd like to think my prices are more than competitive with the other VPS vendors out there. Give us a look. You can't go wrong when you know exactly what you're getting.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
http://www.m5hosting.com/ supports OpenBSD, FreeBSD, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. No control panels, will partition the disk the way you want it, they have KVM over IP. I have been very happy with server with them. I think they colo your box too if you want too.
Chuck
Jumpline provides a virtual dedicated server, their uptime is excellent and the application management system and accessibility is usable to good. The site is way over engineered and quite slow, and its hard to find stuff. Their customer service guys are helpful, mostly.
Their prices seem reasonable and response times acceptable.
I like em, and have used em for a couple of years, despite their dumb-ass website.
There is no god; get over it already! Never exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage.
iWeb is great and they're in Montreal.
Prices are good, i think they'll price match too.
Ugh... Terrible company. Former employee.
If someone was only going to use 1000Gigs, then why would they need that type of machine?
I currently do 500GB+/month on a 2.4Ghz Celeron with 512Mb RAM and a regular IDE drive. And it has worked well for the past two years, but I have started having some annoying outages and am shopping around for other possibilities.
Also, reading the TOS on those things, you can say "shit" or "fuck" on your own box, or you can't link to sites that contain nudity? WTF?
If I want to link to a shit of Britney's twat on my blog, should I not be able to? Sure, I know it's in poor taste, but this is from 1 & 1's TOS:
You agree and warrant that all data, visual materials, advertising and other matter you store on or allow to be transmitted by 1&1's Equipment shall not violate any Laws concerning obscenity and shall not contain or link to any nudity, pornography, or depictions of bestiality, incest, rape, sexual assault, actual physical violence, torture or disfigurement, or other content deemed objectionable by 1&1, in its sole discretion.
IN IT'S SOLE DISCRETION??!!
Fuck!
Seems like I could make a cottage industry out of charging setup fees, then kicking people off because in my "sole discretion" the content they upload is objectionable. I could do this with only one or two servers and make $200/day. Sweet.
It's really hard looking for a provider, because once you dig into those terms and conditions, they pretty much tell you to go shit in your hat and that you have zero rights or recourse, and it's hard to plunk down a $100 setup fee when people are telling you that.
I guess the only true freedom is getting your own box and sticking it on an expensive high-speed connection, but then again, your upstream provider could drop you.
When you think about it, there really isn't as much freedom on the Internet as people think there is. You can only host what your provider agrees with.
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Would Jaguar be good to host also a postfix service ? I never tried to install a mail server ...
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?