New home for DBF

[Shockwave]

I have been searching for the last few months for a good place to move this site, the problem is the files we have in storage (about 500mb now), I've looked into lots of companies and this one is favourite with me at the moment;

http://www.liquidweb.com/contract.html

I aml either looking to get the professional shared hosting package or a VPS. There is even a VPS for $60 a month (which we don't need atm).

Was wondering if anybody knew any reason not to use LiquidWeb before I find out more..

[slippy]

Hey shocky,

I think this offer is way too expensive ... here in germany you get a VPS for less money ... I was just looking for some references and found a very interesting website (unfortunately it's in german) ... the average offers of a system with 10GB HD space and an amount of 256-512MB RAM vary between 19,- and 39,- EURs ...

http://www.hostsuche.de

I dunno if there're some similar pages in the UK ... but for $60 you could rent a dedicated root server here ...

Just a suggestion ^^

Laters,
  SLiPPY

[Shockwave]

You can get a dedicated server for $60?!??! !  !   !

Most people had quoted me $200 per month +

I am not worried about price too much, I am concerned with reputation and reliability.. This site is hosted by Petahosting at the moment.

Not the cheapest provider, but we are not tied into any contract and the server response and uptime has been excellent, unfortunately we are out growing them.

We need at least 2gb now to store files for the coming few years...

[Jim]

I'll mention this again just to make sure we don't forget...
While I really like the idea of having the control of a VPS or even our own server, do we have the skills we need to configure and maintain the OS for security and any other issues, or do the hosting company worry about that kind of thing on our behalf?

Jim

[Shockwave]

The answer to that is not yet Jim.
I can research it though.
In the meantime what do you think of that hosting company and the shared hosting plans?

[.:] Druid [:.]

I still vote for one.com www.one.com, that's where Intro-Inferno.com is hosted...I don't have any complain (so far lol) about them.  Good uptime, almost 24/24 tehnical support thru a chat option in admin page etc etc...and no, I don't have any stock options there

[Shockwave]

Thanks Druid I contacted one.com and had a chat with one of the online guys, the only issue I had was with the domain name but the uptime is good and also seem a fast host too.

[slippy]

Hey,

regarding Jims worries ... maintaining a vServer could be easy as long as you always keep an eye on security updates (well, I know, that's exactly what Jim said) ... but even this is easy ...

on a forum vServer there're usually only a few necessary packages

an Apache + mod-php (...)
a MySQL RDBMS
and a SMTP server

there's no need for FTP services as all administrative stuff could be done using SSH/SCP  (which, cleverly configured, is really secure IMHO)

Now if you use a Debian distro as host OS there's quite an easy cronjob (run nightly or even every 6 hours) which takes care of up-to-date security issues

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/sh
apt-get update >> /dev/null
apt-get upgrade -y >> /var/log/nightly_updates.log

apt-get is available on other linux distros too ... so, maintaining a vServer/rootDS, dedicated server this way shouldn't be that hard ...


EDIT: hehe ... should have had a look to www.one.com first well, that shared hosting package with 5GB is really cheap and obviously quite stable ... and has a lot of features which normally could be found on manually installed vServer ... regarding these information I think it's worth a try