[Chicago] Dedicated Server Hosting Recommendations?

[Malcolm Newsome]

Thank you all for the recommendations!  

Malcolm



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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/