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Decent Co-Location or Virtual Server Hosting?

Posted by Cliff on from the assure-your-place-on-the-internet dept.

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?"

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  1. That really depends. by the+unbeliever · · Score: 2, Informative

    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!

  2. EV1Servers.Net by JLester · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:EV1Servers.Net by walt-sjc · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yeah, but didn't ev1 buy a license from SCO, basically helping to fund SCO's assault against Linux? Then after the fact (due to customer / industry reaction) decided that they made a bad move? I'm still waiting for them to do the right thing and sue SCO for fraud (selling a license for IP they didn't own.)

  3. Personal Colo by miller60 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Paul Vixie maintains a directory of services providing personal colo for power users. You might find something there to fit your needs.

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  4. WebHostingTalk.com by pci · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

  5. VPSLand by extremescholar · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:VPSLand by amorsen · · Score: 2, Informative

      Why no IRC? It seems interesting that IRC would be the only thing they would disallow. Is there something about the traffic patterns or legality of IRC that would make it a problem? What about a server that does the same function, but isn't specifically IRC?

      IRC servers attract DOS attacks. It's better or worse depending on which particular IRC network they connect to, but it's no wonder that the providers find it easier to just blanket ban IRC.

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  6. Linode.com by Smitty825 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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!

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