looking for host advice (no host people)

whitey · 2004-01-11, 02:50 AM

Alpha:

National-net, which GG mentioned is excellent for mission critical stuff. One of the highest service providers around.

But I am curious as to why you would run a window server for free site service (just curious as you usually need more server power, and cost, to accomplish many of the thing unix boxes will do). Maybe you can substitute or do without some of those .NET apps? Just a thought.

Those xxxadulthost prices seem damn good which is important for a free site. It appears that they are a colocated provider with above.net as their primary connectivity (above.net is good). The servers are in NY and have good ping times from both the westcoast and Europe...

Also keep in mind that their prices on dedicated appear to be unmanaged as they only mention server monitoring on their site (those prices are compatible with a wide variety of unmanaged providers). If you feel comfortable with sever and dns admin, you may also want to check out servermatrix.com. We are colocated at their facility - thePlanet - and that facility has some of the most premier bw providers around coming into it. The ping times to Europe will beat most East Coast dcs and to Asia most west coast dcs.

Also, if you go unmanaged, make certain that you are familiar with the webserver management routines or there is a WHM interface such as Windows Server or cpanel for unix - I don't see these things mentioned in the xxxadulthost.com materials.

We have unix and apache skills on staff (allowing us to operate a shell server) so we may give xxxadulthost.com a try as the prices for a 3.75 Mbs line are good and we have a new project coming up.

As far as unmetered vs. a fixed pipeline, it all depends on managing your bw. I prefer 10Mbs pipelines burstable to 100Mbs. I am sure that xxxadulthost.com operates similarly (which means similarly to webair's definition of unmetered), so you should check the bw overage costs. We are slowly moving away from shared pipe plans to fixed pipe arrangements as there is more control over the business and costs. But you have to manage carefully as you do not want your site to be slow or unreachable.

2004-01-11, 02:50 AM	#13
whitey Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 186	Alpha: National-net, which GG mentioned is excellent for mission critical stuff. One of the highest service providers around. But I am curious as to why you would run a window server for free site service (just curious as you usually need more server power, and cost, to accomplish many of the thing unix boxes will do). Maybe you can substitute or do without some of those .NET apps? Just a thought. Those xxxadulthost prices seem damn good which is important for a free site. It appears that they are a colocated provider with above.net as their primary connectivity (above.net is good). The servers are in NY and have good ping times from both the westcoast and Europe... Also keep in mind that their prices on dedicated appear to be unmanaged as they only mention server monitoring on their site (those prices are compatible with a wide variety of unmanaged providers). If you feel comfortable with sever and dns admin, you may also want to check out servermatrix.com. We are colocated at their facility - thePlanet - and that facility has some of the most premier bw providers around coming into it. The ping times to Europe will beat most East Coast dcs and to Asia most west coast dcs. Also, if you go unmanaged, make certain that you are familiar with the webserver management routines or there is a WHM interface such as Windows Server or cpanel for unix - I don't see these things mentioned in the xxxadulthost.com materials. We have unix and apache skills on staff (allowing us to operate a shell server) so we may give xxxadulthost.com a try as the prices for a 3.75 Mbs line are good and we have a new project coming up. As far as unmetered vs. a fixed pipeline, it all depends on managing your bw. I prefer 10Mbs pipelines burstable to 100Mbs. I am sure that xxxadulthost.com operates similarly (which means similarly to webair's definition of unmetered), so you should check the bw overage costs. We are slowly moving away from shared pipe plans to fixed pipe arrangements as there is more control over the business and costs. But you have to manage carefully as you do not want your site to be slow or unreachable.