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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.)