1&1 dedicated servers

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 20, 2005, at 21:22, Greg Rundlett wrote:

> Of course YMMV
>
> I wrote about it on my blog:
> (Don't) Get your VPS
> http://freephile.homelinux.org/blog/archives/24-Dont-Get-your-VPS.html
>
> quoting myself:
>
> The second point I wish to make is that VPS still works through a
> control panel. If you like the idea of having root on a box, and also
> enjoy the prospects of playing root in a blindfolded labyrinth of
> quicksand, then VPS could be great for you.

As far as I've seen VPS's are uniformly awful.  I have clients who pay 
more for VPS's than I do for a raw-iron box from 1&1 and everything is 
slow and you can't configure half of what you need to.  It's worth 
noting even raw iron boxes from 1&1 come loaded with Plesk - a piece of 
software apparently aimed at making Linux miserable and confusing.  I 
can't say I really understand it but it seems to be Webmin done wrong.  
I'm sure I'm missing the point, but rm -rf /usr/local/plesk seems to 
solve those problems.

I should elaborate on my earlier recommendation and say my experience 
only applies to their raw hardware ('root server') offering.

-Bill
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