[Chicago] Dedicated Server Hosting Recommendations?
Steven McGrath
steve at cugnet.net
Thu Mar 24 19:07:24 CET 2011
I ended up just doing it myself with a coloed server, KVM, lvm, and a little
scripting.
Cugnet.net ;)
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:30, Malcolm Newsome <malcolm.newsome at gmail.com>
wrote:
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 :-)
Malcolm
From: Brian Herman <brianherman at gmail.com>
>
> You have to tell us which one you picked.
> The suspense is killing us.
> Thanks,
> Brian Herman
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> brianjherman.com
> brianherman at acm.org
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Malcolm Newsome <
> malcolm.newsome at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Brian Herman <brianherman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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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