Thanks for the tip, I'm not a sysadmin but I have to in order to keep costs reasonnable (and get some new knowledge too).

$229 for a managed server is quite reasonnable, but I'm very surprised to be unable to find decent dedicated server for reasonnable price in the USA.

OVH offers a Core i5 with 8GB, 2*1TB Raid 1 drives for $80, for the same price I've got only 2GB instance in Rackspace Cloud.

Where is the OVH american counter part ? :/

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From: Shai Gluskin

Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:04 AM

Subject: Re: [support] Any dedicated server hosting to recommend ?

It sounds like you might be more of a geek than me and so this might not make sense for you. With inmotionhosting.com they will really hold your hand with everything non-Drupal related. And if you choose to not have the root password, they take responsibility as well.

As I've learned more, I decided that I did want to have root access because I didn't want to wait around and with knowledge one wants more power! When I got root they warned me that they wouldn't take any responsibility anymore. But they have been just as helpful. I think the warning was that they wanted to cover their butts, and I don't blame them. But I have NEVER gotten from them, "You must have screwed something up because you have root access, sorry, no help."

No host is perfect, but I've been very happy with my dedicated server at inmotionhosting.com.

Shai

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Nicolas Tostin <nicolast@logis.com.mx> wrote:

Hi everybody,
I'm currently managing some Drupal sites on a Rackspace cloud and I'm pretty
happy with their service. But as my sites are getting bigger and more
complex, they use quite some RAM. I still haven't been able to cut down the
number of modules but I have implemented different levels of caching to
reduce the load.

However, a 4GB instance on Rackspace cloud cost around 160USD/month, at this
price, I think it may be time to investigate for a dedicated server. In
Europe OVH offer powerfull dedicated server around 80USD/month
(http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml ), but I'd like to find
a similar offer in the USA.
Which dedicated server provider do you use for what cost and what service ?
What would be your recomendation ?
And bonus question, is there an easy way to migrate my system configuration
to a new host.

Thanks a lot.

Nicolas

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