Linux hosting options, pros and cons

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

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> So, what are folks doing, and why?


I don't have any experience with places that do VMs.

As has already been stated, a shared webhosting is not likely to meet a
number of your requirements.

I have shared hosting with Dreamhost (and have for years). They also do
dedicated.
Shared: http://dreamhost.com/hosting.html
Dedicated: http://dreamhost.com/hosting-dedicated.html
(plug: during signup, there's a place to fill in referals, fill in my
domain, eth0.net and I get a free month of service) :)

For aninmeondvd.com, that I do some sysadmin work for, I worked with the
site owner to migrate to local hoster Inet-Services.
http://www.inet-svcs.com/
Their dedicated hosting is incredibly competitive. They run on Dell
hardware. They're headquartered in Natick. They do their dedicated and
colocation out of Boston Data Centers in Charlestown. I've visited BDC, and
it's a quality data center facility. Presales questions to Inet Services
were answered quickly and competently. Tech support questions to thru their
webform/email are very promptly responded to. In fact, we had problems where
our site was massively slow. They got on the phone with me, and pretty
quickly figured out we were pegging our bandwidth. I got the ok from the
site owner to add additional bandwidth to our bill, and the tech upped us
while on the phone, and a minute or so later, problems cleared up. In fact,
we've had more problems with Network Solutions DNS servers going down (we
still have DNS hosted over there), than we have with any
site/hardware/network problems at Inet Services. Their colo is very
reasonably priced as well. Come springtime, I'm probably going to put a 1U
box in with them (85$/mo + bandwidth for 1U).

-Shawn
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