[Chicago] Dedicated Server Hosting Recommendations?
Brian Herman
brianherman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 22:01:32 CET 2011
I have personally used http://www.rapidxen.net/ and Amazon web services. I
love both of those.
Thanks,
Brian Herman
brianjherman.com
brianherman at acm.org
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Brian Herman <brianherman at gmail.com> wrote:
> linode?
> Storage
> *48GB
> Ram
> **1536MB
> Transfer
> **600GB
> **$59.95*
> http://www.linode.com/features.cfm
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> - 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
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> Thanks,
> Brian Herman
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> brianjherman.com
> brianherman at acm.org
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>
>> 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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