I need to move a bunch of sites away from a server that's due to be decommissioned in the next few weeks, so I'm looking for suggestions on where to host.
My requirements (in order of decreasing importance) are:
Any suggestions?
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Posted by savs at January 21, 2008 4:35 PMI currently use a xen instance from the nice people at bluelinux which covers most needs. For DNS I use mythic beasts who have the DNS control panel from (the sadly dead) Black Cat Networks.
Works fairly well for me, at least.
Posted by: Brett Parker at January 21, 2008 5:17 PMI've been researching Virtual Private Server (VPS) services for work recently. I've been focusing on managed solutions; for an unmanaged cheaper option I think http://www.slicehost.com/ and http://www.linode.com/ would be worth looking in to. Depending on the virtualization used, some VPS providers won't let you choose which OS you can use.
Posted by: Dave Brondsema at January 21, 2008 6:03 PMI can recommend Bytemark. Definitely not cheap but I'm very happy with their support. Price list is here:
http://www.bytemark.co.uk/page/Live/hosting/prices
Posted by: Ugo at January 21, 2008 7:49 PMI have nothing but good stuff to say about http://slicehost.com. Highly committed guys who know their stuff. Ping me for a test login if you want to check bandwith and stuff.
Posted by: Gianugo Rabellino at January 21, 2008 8:03 PMi've been happy with my virtual server at linode.com. the only downtime has been so i can take advantage of the upgraded memory and disk space for my account.
Posted by: jim winstead at January 21, 2008 8:05 PMMy codeconsult.ch server has been running at http://bytemark.co.uk/ for ages, and I'm very happy with the service. Their virtual hosts are not the cheapest and RAM is fairly limited, but the uptimes are excellent, and people have always been helpful.
Posted by: Bertrand Delacretaz at January 21, 2008 9:00 PMSlicehost
Posted by: Brian McCallister at January 21, 2008 9:40 PMI use pair.com, but they're in Pittsburgh, PA.
They're cheap and good. about the only thing you can't do is run a cron every minute on a shared box setup.
Posted by: stega at January 21, 2008 10:33 PMSlicehost came recommended to me by Brian McCallister, and they've impressed me so far.
I use GoDaddy for the DNS still (and email redirecting).
OS is Ubuntu - I don't recall if there was a choice, might have been.
After using GoDaddy for a year, I recommend Slicehost strongly.
Posted by: Hen at January 22, 2008 7:47 AMHetzner - http://www.hetzner.de/rootserver_en.html (real machines too)
Posted by: Thom May at January 22, 2008 2:25 PMOf my current collection of hosts, bytemark are probably the best for your request.
Posted by: MJ Ray at January 23, 2008 12:09 PMI setup an ssh account with Dreamhost ( http://dreamhost.com ) for you to play with if you want to. You'll be able to create HTML and PHP files that are served from here:
Here's the login:
[redacted]
password is [redacted]
Bandwidth: 5TB/month
Disk: 500GB
OS: Debian
DNS Control: seems good, but I don't use it (ability to create DNS records)
Ability-To-Install.... no. (unless you count php, perl, ruby, python stuff?) I don't think ssh users are allowed to open server sockets on any port, but I can't remember.
SSH: Yes! Pretty full-service, too!
Price: $120/year ! (And cheaper if you prepay more years).
I'll probably disable this account in a couple weeks, but have fun in the meantime (if you can be bothered... I won't be offended if you have better things to do with your time).
ps. oh one possible downside for you if you're based in europe: DH's servers are in Los Angeles