[Chicago] Dedicated Server Hosting Recommendations?

[Brian Herman]

You have to tell us which one you picked.
The suspense is killing us.
Thanks,
Brian Herman

brianjherman.com
brianherman at acm.org








On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Malcolm Newsome
<malcolm.newsome at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you all for the recommendations!
>
> Malcolm
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> ____________________________________________________________________________
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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
> >
> >    - 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
> >
> >
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> > 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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