I definitely don't want to be the cause of any email thread related deaths! I'll definitely report back once I've checked out your recommendations and made a selection :-) <br><br>Malcolm<br><br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">From: Brian Herman <<a href="mailto:brianherman@gmail.com">brianherman@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br>You have to tell us which one you picked.<div>The suspense is killing us.<br clear="all">Thanks,<br>Brian Herman<br><br><a href="http://brianjherman.com" target="_blank">brianjherman.com</a><br><a href="mailto:brianherman@acm.org" target="_blank">brianherman@acm.org</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Malcolm Newsome <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malcolm.newsome@gmail.com" target="_blank">malcolm.newsome@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thank you all for the recommendations!<br>
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Malcolm<br>
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I have personally used <a href="http://www.rapidxen.net/" target="_blank">http://www.rapidxen.net/</a> and Amazon web services. I<br>
love both of those.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Brian Herman<br>
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<a href="http://brianjherman.com" target="_blank">brianjherman.com</a><br>
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Brian Herman <brianherman at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>><br>
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> linode?<br>
> Storage<br>
> *48GB<br>
> Ram<br>
> **1536MB<br>
> Transfer<br>
> **600GB<br>
> **$59.95*<br>
> <a href="http://www.linode.com/features.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.linode.com/features.cfm</a><br>
><br>
> - Deploy multiple Linux distributions<br>
> - Create Configuration Profiles which associate disk images and device<br>
> nodes<br>
> - Boot between configuration profiles<br>
> - Share disk images between configuration profiles<br>
> - Resize disk images<br>
> - Network and CPU usage graphs<br>
> - Multiple IP address support<br>
> - Managed/hosted DNS service with slave support<br>
> - Custom reverse DNS (rdns)<br>
> - Access Out of band console access using Lish<br>
> - Lish menu system to issue jobs to your Linode<br>
> - Lish access via SSH keys<br>
> - Support for booting into single user mode, init=/bin/bash<br>
> - Support for booting with a custom "root=" kernel parameter<br>
> - Support for booting with an initrd<br>
> - Bootable recovery distribution (Finnix)<br>
> - Add and remove extra resources to and from your Linode<br>
> - Shutdown Watchdog will automatically reboot your Linode in case of a<br>
> crash<br>
> - Clone a Linode to another<br>
> - Move IPs from one Linode to another<br>
> - IP address fail over support for high availability setups<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Brian Herman<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://brianjherman.com" target="_blank">brianjherman.com</a><br>
</div></div>> brianherman at <a href="http://acm.org" target="_blank">acm.org</a><br>
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, <skip at <a href="http://pobox.com" target="_blank">pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>><br>
>> Malcolm> I'm on the hunt for the "best" price/performance for<br>
dedicated<br>
<div><div></div><div>>> Malcolm> (non-managed) server hosting. Does anyone have any<br>
>> Malcolm> recommendations?<br>
>><br>
>> I use <a href="http://tummy.com" target="_blank">tummy.com</a>. I'm sure they are not the cheapest, and my virtual host<br>
>> was created several years ago and probably doesn't run on<br>
state-of-the-art<br>
>> hardware anymore, but they do a bang-up job keeping my OS up-to-date and<br>
>> squashing network problems. They also offer dedicated hosting if that's<br>
>> what you want.<br>
>><br>
>> On top of that, Sean Reifschneider, co-founder and CTO, is involved in<br>
the<br>
>> Python community generally, and more specifically, he keeps many parts of<br>
>> the <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a> hardware infrastructure coherent and up-to-date. (I think<br>
>> he<br>
>> almost single-handedly rescued the wireless network at PyCon 2008.) This<br>
>> being open source, he does all that for free, so I like to think I'm<br>
>> paying<br>
>> him back in some small way for his largesse.<br>
>><br>
>> I should also point out that my son works for Gigenet in Arlington<br>
>> Heights.<br>
>> I'm sure I could get a better deal there (maybe even free), but I<br>
consider<br>
>> my money well-spent at <a href="http://tummy.com" target="_blank">tummy.com</a>.<br>
>><br>
>> Here's /proc/cpuinfo from my virtual server:<br>
>><br>
>> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo<br>
>> processor : 0<br>
>> vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>
>> cpu family : 6<br>
>> model : 23<br>
>> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz<br>
>> stepping : 7<br>
>> cpu MHz : 2826.250<br>
>> cache size : 6144 KB<br>
>> fdiv_bug : no<br>
>> hlt_bug : no<br>
>> f00f_bug : no<br>
>> coma_bug : no<br>
>> fpu : yes<br>
>> fpu_exception : yes<br>
>> cpuid level : 10<br>
>> wp : yes<br>
>> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge<br>
>> mca<br>
>> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm<br>
constant_tsc<br>
>> up<br>
>> arch_perfmon pebs bts pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 lahf_lm<br>
>> bogomips : 5652.50<br>
>> clflush size : 64<br>
>> power management:<br>
>><br>
>> Malcolm> Also, does anyone have experience using dedicated servers<br>
>> Malcolm> overseas for hosting? Is this something I should consider or<br>
>> Malcolm> absolutely stay away from (given that most traffic will be<br>
>> Malcolm> coming from the US)?<br>
>><br>
>> The <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a> servers (except for <a href="http://bugs.python.org" target="_blank">bugs.python.org</a>) are hosted at<br>
>> XS4ALL.net<br>
>> in the Netherlands. I don't know if they offer retail hosting (I don't<br>
>> read<br>
>> Dutch), but if they do, they obviously have the capability to host busy<br>
>> servers which have large amounts of US-based traffic.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
</div></div>>> Skip Montanaro - skip at <a href="http://pobox.com" target="_blank">pobox.com</a> - <a href="http://www.smontanaro.net/" target="_blank">http://www.smontanaro.net/</a><br>
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