By kae on
We are looking into dedicated hosting. (most importantly for security reasons). I'm looking at node 44173 which mentions site5 (automatic upgrade if slashdotted), and highland. We'd be interested to hear about these and additional companies people has used, and liked or not liked. one person didn't recommend sevage because it lacked shell access. We do want shell access. If you could share info regarding traffic volume, RAM, and prices at that volume and other relevant info such as response time and expertise of customer service, that would be appreciated. Thank you.
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self-hosting
We are also considering self-hosting.
How much budget and staff time would that require initially and monthly? (Just to maintain the servers, not the Drupal code) How much training would a C programmer need to set up and maintain servers? would 2 or 3 weeks be enough?
(again, security would be the reason we go this route.)
On the one hand, there is the argument that a professional hosting firm would have more expertise with keeping the info secure. On the other hand, we have screened our employees to our standards.
others
i also read 37332, which mentions lunarpages at $100/mo for Intel Celeron 2.0GHz, 512mB memory, $150/mo for Pentium CPU and 1 gig memory.
siteground vps hosting $89/mo, $49 setup
39427 cpu usage; upset hosts
49365. unixshell.
dakotahosting ($40/mo) it's unmanaged
http://drupal.org/node/49365#comment-97044
dreamhost okay up to 3000 people a day, not bigger
http://drupal.org/node/49365#comment-98727
dreamhost down a lot
70748
chx likes modwest
http://drupal.org/node/40748#comment-75202 site5 problem
jaguarpc +1 (but ruined someone else's site, I forget which one)
42316 saw negative reviews of site5
Ber likes linode
vikram likes siteground
27519
rimu +2
linode +1
rosehosting, terrible
spry, +1, bad, bad
rackspace
godaddy
boris uses firebright
What are your security
What are your security concerns?
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data
the data is confidential, and if stolen could lead to identity theft and other problems.
What about virtual hosting?
Places like Rimu Hosting offer good prices and support.
Rimu uses Xen for their virtualisation - no real security worries with Xen.
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vps
Anton,
thank you very much. I didn't know about VPS. For those who don't know, it means you have your own copy of Apache installed. this also improves performance. westhost has a plan starting at $4! Are you using rimu?
Not with Rimu yet
We actually have our servers inhouse, but I am looking into Rimu for a backup DNS/SMTP solution. So we don't actually use them yet.
With a Xen virtual host, you can basically get a base Debian install to yourself that you can do whatever you like with except for stuff like replacing the kernel or setting the system time etc. We have used Xen internally for virtual development servers and it works well.
Rimu have a very good support and customer service reputation though, and can even offer good support for your own installed apps like Apache, BIND, Tomcat etc.
If you can afford it, a dedicated server is still better in most cases. But virtual servers are a nice middle ground between shared hosting and a dedicated server.
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vps
searching on vps, i found node 49365. It's an interesting discussion of vps, but does not mention too many hosts by name.
VPS hosting
I am using RimuHosting and I am quite happy. When I was looking for a VPS it was down to UnixShell and RimuHosting. I chose Rimu because they were using Xen which is supposedly faster than other virtualizatin software like UML. There aren't too many VPS hosting around. You can also check linode.com.
I also asked a similar question about self-hosting and using a virtual private server (dedicated is too expensive for me) a while ago and then decided VPS was the best option for me:
http://drupal.org/node/20053
FYI, UnixShell has been
FYI, UnixShell has been using Xen for quite some time. (I have a VPS instance running on one of their boxes under Xen)
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self
rimu does sound like the best one so far.
your self-hosting thread got great replies! thank you
westhost
i just got off the phone with westhost
vps starting at $4 and up
24/7 tollfree tech support
install php and mysql via control panel
no managed vps
data servers in utah (no redundancy)
no free backups
dedicated at $150 and up
vps servers have 4GB of RAM
dedicated servers have 512k RAM, upgrade to 1GB for $23/mo
running redhat and spyra.
about 99.0% uptime, so higher downtime than others.
Dedicated Hosting with linux
I hope to be relevant to my comment, I post this link: http://www.dedicated-hosting.linux.com as describing the url already, this is a site that deals specifically dedicated hosting linux environment, there is therefore very safe, with a shell access very convenient, quick and easy, there are three types of VPS. The first VPS has the following features: Hard Disk 10 GB, 1 TB Bandwidth, 512 MB RAM Guaranteed, the characteristics of the second are: Hard Disk 20 GB, 1 TB Bandwidth, 512 MB RAM Guaranteed, and those of third VPS are: Hard 30 GB Disk, 2TB Bandwidth, 1024 MB Guaranteed RAM, both the three vps have also included the following tools: cPanel (Simply Complete Administration Tool), Pomme (Autoresponder and Mail Manager). I hope I have been of help. Hello everyone. Have a good evening.