My server is currently co-located in Redbus Meridian Gate, but my current colo company has put up their prices.
Anyone got any recommendations of a cheap colocation provider in Redbus for a 2u rackmount server, dual P4 Xeons, with about 10gb of bandwidth a month, preferably with remote reboot.
I'm looking to put my server in a datacenter. Its my first server and one of many hopefully as i want to start a webhosting business. Any suggestions?
View 12 Replies View RelatedIm thinking of buying my own server, i need a cheap mid range spec server, where can i get a decent priced one? or maybe a empty chassis..
then id like a decent priced colo, i looked at 49pence there cheap give 3000gb bw and unlimited IP on ripe justification. but there support isnt for me. they dont seem to listen. if anyone has any ideas on where i can find these 2 things please let me know.
Anyone have any recommendations for 100-200 sf cages with semi dense power for 10-15$/sf? (no transit is needed just space and power)
View 5 Replies View Relatedwe have a broadcast network for about 200 tvs and 1300 radio stations and looking for a datacenter to get cheap dedicated bandwidth and space for our servers.
* 1 to 4 gbit bw
* 1 full secure cabinet
* 20 amp power
* c class ip
* non tech help
* 2 years contract
* north america or europe
He.net, uberbandwidth and fdc are lowest rates as i have found on the net. what would you recommend? any reviews about those (and other) dcs?
I got into a discussion today on "Out of London" Data Centres. I have been thinking about it today. Could anyone advise of any data Centres that are on the outskirts on London, (30 - 50 Miles max for travel reasons) as I have customers who request Co-Lo out of London (FSA regulations etc) but I only seem to know of one.
The rest as far as I know are either full or pretty old and cannot deliver the power or the connectivity. I know if I go to East London there are a few - but they are rather close to London - if I go west I then am still in London but on the Heathrow flight paths etc.
If I want to get out of London and don't want to go to Manchester or Milton Keynes - where do I go? The Data Centre at Buncefield bit the dust- so is there anything available? - I am talking, on-net with atleast 2 major carriers and decent security. I had to laugh about two "so-called" 'out of London data' centres that I called - they are basically square rooms with an aircon unit in the corner, not even a battery backup and a 10Mbps Telewest connection to THE!
With all the price hikes in London, are there any companies still offering sustainable pricing on tower colocation?
View 12 Replies View RelatedMy question obviously is what do you think of colocation in Ontario outside of Toronto? I'm doing preliminary research and would appreciate any feedback.
Please assume ping times and speeds are comparable to Toronto, with similar pricing. Same backup power, bandwidth restrictions etc.
I'm after some recommendations for dedicated hosts in London, UK.
My budget is reasonable (about £400 / month). I don't want a reseller, I would sooner go direct to a main host, someone reasonably large. Like The Planet but in London.
I want a very good reliable service (don't we all!).
I'm aware of Rackspace, but aside from that any recommendations welcomed!
This is probably a dumb question, but I've been curious about something. While shopping around for either a cheap dedicated server (less than $75/mo) or a cheap colo for a 1u server, I have noticed that the cheap dedicated servers are often less than a cheap colo, which seems odd to me since with a colo you bring your own machine.
For example, Sago Networks has cheap dedicateds for $50, $59, $79 etc. yet their cheapest colo option is $99. For Sago's $50 dedicated you get 1000GB transfer and 2 IP's, and with their $99 colo you get only get 100 GB transfer and 1 IP.
And Sago is not unusual in this respect. I've priced other providers that fall into this category and they have similar differences.
So why is colo more expensive than dedicated for similar, if not lower, features?
with the unfortunate loss of the last few months there's a need for reviews of hosts given that many things can happen, good hosts turn to bad and fortunately vice versa (ie the positive LeaseWeb thread that was posted the other day in Dedicated, I believe. It's great to hear those stories.)
So, for anyone expecting anything other than the standard 'FastHosting have been great for me' tale, then prepare to be disappointed. This is, as of today, a 1 month review for a London based 2x c2quad 2.00ghz VPS, with 1.5gb SLM RAM, 50gb HDD, 1.5tb transfer at $46/mo. Whilst this isn't my first host, it's my first VPS.
Background - I originally hosted my site on a server owned by the main admin of a site I moderated, free space for doing the work. I decided I wanted to put up a fair chunk of multimedia work, and it was 2001 so I moved to an unmanaged box at managed.com (now EV1 I believe?) Bad mistake. I wasn't ready for that kind of freedom, and a few months later I moved over to a small reseller account with cPanel which I got used to easily enough (having used Plesk originally on the 1st box). Against, constraints meant I decided to move my personal site to DreamHost whilst I resold the reseller space to pay for my overall costs. The DreamHost space simply isn't of high enough quality to resell, and the $200 a year I was paying felt like a decent enough deal as I was lucky enough to not suffer huge amounts.
Roll on to 09, my DH site is acting poorly over the space of a few weeks, users are moaning and my Reseller deal hasn't improved since I took it out about 4 years ago. I browsed WHM for a few days to find 'the right host' and nearly settled on one.. I did more research and found out whilst they offered what seemed a good service in general, a few major problems occurred late last year and I simply couldn't put my money down based on that. I shant name them as I'm sure it was a one-off, and unfair for someone who is not a customer to tarnish their reputation.
FH seemed to combine the specs I wanted, I was very eager to move hosting to the UK where virtually all my users are, and see if geographical location was all it cracked up to be. It works in online gaming afterall. Whilst I could beat the promises of space elsewhere, the enthusiasm that FH customers posted with convinced me that if I had a problem, these guys would sort it.
I had a bit of confusion with their signup process (it looks as if you can register a domain with them, but then it denies you when you try. This might be different now.) so I passed on a ticket enquiring about the process, as live chat was down due to the time (about 11pm GMT). A few minutes later I had a reply telling me what I needed to do, and an apology for the confusion. Whilst I can understand tech support being 24/7, I was pleasantly surprised that the sales team were still around to respond to requests.
I signed up and went to bed, hoping to hear something in the morning as they didn't make promises about set up times when using vouchers. This was fine. I woke up about 7am, to find emails in my inbox at around 4am welcoming me to the service and providing me with all the URLs I needed. I logged in to Virtuozzo, everything looked good and it was nice to see the overall panel for the first time. Now to log into WHM for the first time.. access denied. Argh! It was late when I did signup and I must've typed something incorrect into the root password field.. so amateur! I fired off an apology to tech support around midday hoping they could reset. They verified my details, escalated it to a senior (fantastic! I was kinda expecting a phone call at this point to prove I wasn't a scammer! I'm glad they take security seriously) and then I had my password reset within the space of about 30 minutes or so.
WHM VPS was a real eye opener, on a reseller box it's pretty limited, but on a VPS it's such a fantastic tool as you really feel like you're in control over the operating system without the complexity of command line if you're not used to setting things up.
Ping rates from Cardiff to London have been constantly good (<30ms, and pingdom's London box gives me between 2 and 5ms on the IP), and I'm able to pretty much max out my 10mbit port on my 20mbit Cable line. Perfect. With Dreamhost I was getting maybe 200k/sec, and my reseller account (who were hosted at LiquidWeb) I got about 350-400 at most. Ping rates for both were 100-200ms.
I installed my Invision PowerBoard, which has 3,500 members, 400k posts, about 60 users online and about 3gb or so in content minus any mp3/video links I uploaded separately.
The thing *SNAPS*. I've rarely seen anyones forum load so smoothly, let alone mine.
During the issues at DH, I was used to seeing page gen times of 15secs, this whole month I've barely seen it over 0.05 to 0.08.
Early on, I had a few problems.. I wasn't getting any joy with the nameservers resolving and I had noticed syslogd was down, and I couldn't bring it back up. I fired off a support ticket covering both elements at approximately 12pm GMT (so between 4am and 7am US, depending on the coast). I wasn't expecting this issue to be resolved for a few hours. By 12.30GMT I hadn't had just an email confirming received, I'd had 5. Each email told me who was dealing with the issues (it'd been passed to 2 engineers, 1 for each element) and they kept me informed as to what was going on. The 5th email confirmed my nameservers were running fine and that syslogd was back up and running. I was truly impressed. The only other ticket I've logged has been to sort out the RDNS entries, which I believe cannot be dealt with by myself anyway.
I filled in a questionnaire, because I was truly pleased with the way every query I had asked, regardless of how trivial. I don't know if it's a particular 'gimmick' of the ticket system they used, but the lowest I could flag my tickets was 'Important'. Even that speaks volumes to me. When I filled the questionnaire in, I thought it would be nice to mention by name each person who had helped me. I think I put about 10 names down in total. It's tricky to describe, because my server doesn't cost much in comparison to others, but I feel like my query is critical to their upkeep, and I get treated as if it's a local mom-n-pop store.
Over the last few weeks, I've read a lot of WHM threads, particularly the VPS section to see how other peoples experiences are, not just with my host but in general. A lot of the time people are told that they can't expect the specs they want in their budget, or that VPS can be a tricky scale up to reseller, even when managed. There's a lot of negativity in places, and that's a shame because it means that a lot of customers haven't had the experiences that I have.
Because there has to be some criticism, because the world is not perfect.. I'd just say as polite, speedy and effective the responses to my tickets have been.. they lacked letting me know what they did to fix any problems. I'm still a bit wet behind the ears, and whilst I don't mind playing with options, am wary of breaking things.. I'd like to know 'is this something I should've known how to do, and if so.. how'. But that's not their job, their job is to keep my box running and that's the priority.
It's a clear 5/5 from me, I think that much is obvious. I paid my 2nd months hosting last night despite money being tough... I'm happier with my (small, but important to me) customers and my own site on quality hardware with excellent support and having to eat cheap supermarket noodles for a few weeks, than eat well and suffer the consequences of the $5 'unlimited' hosts out there.
Is London Hosting Centre in any way connected to BlueSquare 1, 2 or 3 in connection terms, for example with BlueSquare went down would London Hosting Centre still be up etc...
As I am wanting to setup a backup site.
This for us (as its not far) seems ideal to colocate several servers in a rack.
Does anyone have any good/bad info about it?
What companies can I ask for quotations to colo there?
I am shopping for servers with 32-64GB of RAM and the typical list price of $10/gbyte is not in line with reality (ie 4GB ECC DDR2 RAM can be bought for 70 bucks). I saw WebNX special offers between 2-300 dollars for 32GB machines, now that's more like it but, I cant really rely on special offers on the long run.
As my application will be frontended by a CDN, network quality is somewhat less of an issue. Reliability and price is. So who be good a choice for machines with lots of RAM? (almost obviously, AMD, Intel uses FB-DIMM and I am not inclined to pay through my nose for that) I guess WebNX is one,
what specs are possible at a few price points.
So, can someone give me an idea about what I'd get for $10/mo, $20/mo, $30/mo and above $40?
I plan on using this for some bandwidth-intensive applications, so factor that in if possible.
I am setting up a paid and free hosting site and looking for a vps to get started.
i am looking for the following spec:-
15gb webspace
200gb bandwidth
384mb ram
fixed ip
burst would be nice
then either cpanel or directadmin, not bothered really but since i really want to keep prices low it will probably end up being direcadmin unless there are any other options?
i am not bother for support really so unmanaged is fine although i do want the ability to do remote reboots from hypervm or something.
server location isn't too bothered but uk or us is preferred.
i have looked at cheapvps but just checking out other options.
Can it be that a VPS costs starting at $17 per month?
A2hosting.com provides 'em. I can't say that I know much about this company activity but the opinion of the community is important for me.
im a webmaster i have 5 site
im having problem with my hosting company ffmpeg dont work etc etc
im searching for a cheap VPS
i have visit keyweb.de but i dont know they bandwidth and thy dont have support
any one tell me a good company
my budget 15 month
I'd like to set up a VPN or something similar between my house and my brother's house so we can easily share data and play games. I do not have any server software on my computer. I'm currently running Win2K and he's running XP. Is there a solution out there that's free or at least reasonably priced ($20.00 or so)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a cheap VPS with the following requirements:
- Based in the EU
- Unlimited monthly bandwidth
- Price under 50 EUR / month, the cheaper the better
- At least 20GB space, at least 10 MBit, other specs do not matter
- Linux distro or FreeBSD, SSH access
- Good reliability, doesn't mean i want a 99% uptime guarantee, but something that doesn't have too many problems
Preferred locations are near Austria, but anywhere in the EU is good. Also it is a plus if they have upgrade options to better packages if i need it at a later time.
I liked Kimsufi, however I cannot rent from my country even though I can pay by credit card or paypal. I am based in Slovenia and i can pay by Visa debit or Paypal (Visa preferred).
Is cheapvps a good provider for cheap vps'?
I searched and didn't find anything.
To cut costs I'm planning on eliminating my VPS and will just host the few sites that I have on my home-office network. However I have 1 site that requires a SSL certificate. Is there an inexpensive solution for doing this that doesn't cost into the thousands per year?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've been using a single VeriSign SSL for years, of course renewing it! Now I need to get SSL on a few other servers for secure WCF services (Windows IIS web sites). I see there are several SSL cert vendors out there from very cheap to very expensive. VeriSign being on the expensive side, then there's geotrust, thawte, etc. Are they all the same in the end, or is there a catch to these cheaper ones?
View 5 Replies View RelatedthePlanet just had a huge accident ( explosion ). Does anyone know any other good/not very expensive web hosting company in US?
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have buy a VPS from swvps ($10) with 300 MB Guarantee memory and 600 MB Burstable and 150GB B/W....
but that provider can not allow dev/ppp or dev/XXX ... only can allow TUN/TAP for OpenVPN...
I need a cheap vps for install PPTP VPN on it....
I'm a client of JaguarPC and I'm very happy with them.
I choosed them as I'm reading WebHostingTalk and I saw good points with them.
Now I got the chance to register and start my communication with you.
I now want to buy a certificate SSL, so anyone connecting will be protected and encrypted.
I dont care for maximum transaction security, just for displaying that this certificate is Trusted by Internet Explorer and most browsers.
how are places such as alphared, fdc, and others able to sell bandwidth for such low prices? sometimes around 4-5$ per mbps.
View 14 Replies View Relatedthere all i want to do is host a say 4 page max .php webite, with possibly a forum and an image upload function
i dont want to pay much and i want to subcribe to a montly cheap payment
also i want an easy and personal host
where is the best?
is there a cheap DDos protection firewall out there? i looked at a couple but the cheapest one i found was $1,399.99
is there any cheaper ones?
I have a reseller account in USA but it seems that atlantic ocean is very big and so I m taking >240ms tracert .
So I need servers in Europe and more speed with VPS and not shared hosting.
I have seen the rackspace.co.uk with 80 ms tracert from Greece but the prices is out of question, something like that more cheaper?
RAM price is so low nowadays that one could buy 8 GB of cheap ram for 300$ (4x2GB) to build a server. I have a server with 2x1GB cheap ram that has been running for 18 months without any issue.
My bet is that ECC ram is not worth it when you can buy normal ram for such low prices.
How many of you would run a server with 8GB of cheap ram?