1&1 dedicated servers

[Greg Rundlett]

> As far as I've seen VPS's are uniformly awful.
[snip]
 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.

You and I share the same assessment.  Webmin can run circles around
Plesk, and not simply because webmin has more 'features' but actually
because plesk doesn't even seem to know what it's purpose in life is.

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

I forgot that they offer 'regular' hosting packages.  I'm sure that
their regular hosting is just fine, on par with Pair.com or others. 
My only experience was with Virtual Private Servers --  "All the power
of root, with the cost of a traditional hosting service"