[Chicago] Dedicated Server Hosting Recommendations?
Brian Herman
brianherman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 21:58:39 CET 2011
linode?
Storage
*48GB
Ram
**1536MB
Transfer
**600GB
**$59.95*
http://www.linode.com/features.cfm
- Deploy multiple Linux distributions
- Create Configuration Profiles which associate disk images and device
nodes
- Boot between configuration profiles
- Share disk images between configuration profiles
- Resize disk images
- Network and CPU usage graphs
- Multiple IP address support
- Managed/hosted DNS service with slave support
- Custom reverse DNS (rdns)
- Access Out of band console access using Lish
- Lish menu system to issue jobs to your Linode
- Lish access via SSH keys
- Support for booting into single user mode, init=/bin/bash
- Support for booting with a custom "root=" kernel parameter
- Support for booting with an initrd
- Bootable recovery distribution (Finnix)
- Add and remove extra resources to and from your Linode
- Shutdown Watchdog will automatically reboot your Linode in case of a
crash
- Clone a Linode to another
- Move IPs from one Linode to another
- IP address fail over support for high availability setups
Thanks,
Brian Herman
brianjherman.com
brianherman at acm.org
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Malcolm> I'm on the hunt for the "best" price/performance for dedicated
> Malcolm> (non-managed) server hosting. Does anyone have any
> Malcolm> recommendations?
>
> I use tummy.com. I'm sure they are not the cheapest, and my virtual host
> was created several years ago and probably doesn't run on state-of-the-art
> hardware anymore, but they do a bang-up job keeping my OS up-to-date and
> squashing network problems. They also offer dedicated hosting if that's
> what you want.
>
> On top of that, Sean Reifschneider, co-founder and CTO, is involved in the
> Python community generally, and more specifically, he keeps many parts of
> the python.org hardware infrastructure coherent and up-to-date. (I think
> he
> almost single-handedly rescued the wireless network at PyCon 2008.) This
> being open source, he does all that for free, so I like to think I'm paying
> him back in some small way for his largesse.
>
> I should also point out that my son works for Gigenet in Arlington Heights.
> I'm sure I could get a better deal there (maybe even free), but I consider
> my money well-spent at tummy.com.
>
> Here's /proc/cpuinfo from my virtual server:
>
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 23
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
> stepping : 7
> cpu MHz : 2826.250
> cache size : 6144 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 10
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm constant_tsc
> up
> arch_perfmon pebs bts pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 lahf_lm
> bogomips : 5652.50
> clflush size : 64
> power management:
>
> Malcolm> Also, does anyone have experience using dedicated servers
> Malcolm> overseas for hosting? Is this something I should consider or
> Malcolm> absolutely stay away from (given that most traffic will be
> Malcolm> coming from the US)?
>
> The python.org servers (except for bugs.python.org) are hosted at
> XS4ALL.net
> in the Netherlands. I don't know if they offer retail hosting (I don't
> read
> Dutch), but if they do, they obviously have the capability to host busy
> servers which have large amounts of US-based traffic.
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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