[consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

[Tom Friedhof]

I've been using GoDaddy for my dedicated servers for about a year  
now.  I used Rackpace for about 4 years, but when I finally wanted to  
upgrade my server the cost went from $175 a month to $600 a month.   
Of course they also added a ton of user friendly features to manage  
the server, but I didn't need that much support.  I researched for a  
while and finally went to GoDaddy.  GoDaddy got my server up in a  
day, and initially put Fedora on it.  When I realized it was an old  
build of Fedora, I asked them to put RHEL on it, and they had me on a  
new server within 24 hours.  I've got the basic package with RHEL  
that cost $132 a month.  The packages start at $89 a month with  
Fedora.  Support is very good, anytime I need something done, they're  
on it right away.  They're a pretty big company so I don't think  
they're going anywhere.  Only hoop I have to jump through is  
backups.  You have to handle backups on your own, or GoDaddy needs to  
fully manage the server to do the backups for you.  I needed root  
access, so that wasn't an option for me.  I just rsync the  
directories I need backed up through ssh to my office, and handle  
backups to external media here.

Tom


On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Morbus Iff wrote:

>> If you're looking for a large corporate entity to host with, I've had
>> good luck with clients using PAIR networks (pair.com)
>
> Looked at them earlier today - they're a little outside my price range
> (I'd like to hover around $150, and their nearest is $199 with too  
> many
> restrictions - no reselling, no root access, etc.).
>
> At the moment, I'm thinking:
>
>   http://www.olm.net/dedicated-servers/amd.html
>
> is more what I'm looking for.
>
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