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By: peter

peter — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:31:11 +0000

Justin,

You’re right about the collocation of course, however this is solvable if you’re dealing with decent hardware and Support. For collocation I deal with for affiliated companies we use Dell hardware with onsite support.

Over two years for about 40 servers we had few hard drives, one memory and one RAID controller failure in all cases Dell technician would come or send hot swap hard drive for replacement and you’re good to go.

The only thing is you should be OK with boxes being dead for few days… though if you’re designing your system without single point of failure it is not the issue.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:48:50 +0000

If you look at http://www.webhostingtalk.com they have a great resource listing many hosts, feedback, etc. I have used ServInt (dedicated server) in the past, and they worked well and responded very quickly to support questions.

With a colo, consider the risk if your server has a hardware failure. It’s then your responsibility to fix it, which may be tough if you’re not in the same city as your colo. With a dedicate server, if a hard drive or something else fails, it is the responsiblity of the provider to fix it.

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By: Chris Mospaw

Chris Mospaw — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:13:30 +0000

I had a run-in with 1 and 1 a few years ago. They suck so hard I thought they were a vacuum company as well as a “hosting” provider. If they were the last hosting company on Earth, I would have to go back to the analog internet.

By: Alt

Alt — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:42:13 +0000

I recently helped move some servers for a couple of companies over to Amazon EC2. It’s nice to have near-instant scaling if needed and you pay for the bandwidth you use (at fairly reasonable prices) which means they won’t cut you off if you use too much.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
Let me know if you want more info on how we did it or how it all works.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:06:23 +0000

I’d recommend ServerBeach… its’ what we use at Tailrank. By default you’ll get 2TB of transfer and they basically won’t play games.

I wrote up a review of ServerBeach if you’re interested.

By: Matthew Montgomery

Matthew Montgomery — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:21:06 +0000

Also, you might investigate ServerBeach (http://serverbeach.com/). They have solid network and very reasonable, straight forward pricing. It was stared by a founder of and funded by Rackspace. They even hosted YouTube’s video content prior to the Google acquisition so large bandwidth customers are not a problem.

By: Cameron Watters

Cameron Watters — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:18:48 +0000

If you haven’t already, take a look at Joyent. If your app can run on Solaris, their Accelerator product might be adequate, and they seem to be fairly generous with the bandwidth and they’re specifically targeting high-traffic customers.

By: anonymous :P

anonymous :P — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:44:14 +0000

Try http://www.rh-tec.de excellent support, fair prices.