Rails - Jun 2006 - OT: Anyone have experience with completelydedicated.com?

Guys,

I''m in the market for a reliable, trustworthy dedicated server
solution.
I''ve been running my own servers internally on a Speakeasy Static IP
DSL
connection, but recent problems with my local loop has caused me to  
reconsider this solution.

completelydedicated.com offers a value Sempron for $59/monthly...a bit  
higher than I wish to go but I have no choice. Can anyone weigh in on  
this company or any competitively priced companies, and, additionally,  
on a Sempron for a server? I can''t imagine it would be a step down...my
current server is a 900Mhz AMD Athlon.

Thanks!

B.A.
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Or serverpronto.com, as an alternative. They seem to be competitively  
priced and "look" to be reputable. Still would love to hear opinions.

Thanks!

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:05 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
> Or serverpronto.com, as an alternative. They seem to be competitively
> priced and "look" to be reputable. Still would love to hear
opinions.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Hey-

	I have had very good luck with http://layeredtech.com and I know  
many others on the list have as well. They have very good pricing and  
a comparable deal to what you are looking at is:

Base System Configuration:



AMD Sempron 2600
80GB IDE Hard Drive
512MB DDR RAM
Bandwidth: 1000GB
IP Addresses: 8 (5 usable)
Private VLAN
Basic Resource Monitoring
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows*
100% Self Managed and Dedicated
Monthly Fee Options:
$65 | $19 Setup





-Ezra
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On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz
wrote:
>	I have had very good luck with http://layeredtech.com and I know
>many others on the list have as well. They have very good pricing
>and a comparable deal to what you are looking at is:
Ezra,

I have indeed read a few posts from you stating that they''ve provided  
good and reliable service. Can I assume you are a shareholder or part  
owner? ;-)

Seriously...my one concern with them is that they are in New  
Zealand...not a U.S. company (where I am) and I assume servers are not  
stateside as well (but admittedly need to review their site more to find  
out).

How long have they been around? How long have you been with them?

Thanks,

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:19 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> 	I have had very good luck with http://layeredtech.com and I know
>> many others on the list have as well. They have very good pricing
>> and a comparable deal to what you are looking at is:
>
> Ezra,
>
> I have indeed read a few posts from you stating that they''ve
provided
> good and reliable service. Can I assume you are a shareholder or part
> owner? ;-)
>
> Seriously...my one concern with them is that they are in New
> Zealand...not a U.S. company (where I am) and I assume servers are not
> stateside as well (but admittedly need to review their site more to  
> find
> out).
>
> How long have they been around? How long have you been with them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> B.A.
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	Nope I don''t work for them. And layeredtech is in texas, rimuhosting  
is in new zealand but with data centers in texas. I admin 7 boxes  
with layered for the last year or so and I have not had any down time  
yet. Notice I didn''t give you a referral link? I have nothing to gain  
by recommending them.

-Ezra

On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz
wrote:
>	Nope I don''t work for them. And layeredtech is in texas,
>rimuhosting is in new zealand but with data centers in texas.
You are right...my mistake. I think I had looked up Rimu at the same  
time and gotten the two confused.
>I admin 7 boxes with layered for the last year or so and I have not
>had any down time yet.
Are you running on Semprons? How has your performance been? Any idea for  
cost for overages? I can''t seem to find that.

Additionally, what Linux are you running? I wish they offered  
Ubuntu...it appears Debian is the closest they have, unforunately.
> Notice I didn''t give you a referral link? I
>have nothing to gain by recommending them.
Just giving you a hard time...please don''t take away any hard feelings
;-)

Thanks for the input.

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:28 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> 	Nope I don''t work for them. And layeredtech is in texas,
>> rimuhosting is in new zealand but with data centers in texas.
>
> You are right...my mistake. I think I had looked up Rimu at the same
> time and gotten the two confused.
>
>> I admin 7 boxes with layered for the last year or so and I have not
>> had any down time yet.
>
> Are you running on Semprons? How has your performance been? Any  
> idea for
> cost for overages? I can''t seem to find that.
>
> Additionally, what Linux are you running? I wish they offered
> Ubuntu...it appears Debian is the closest they have, unforunately.
>
>> Notice I didn''t give you a referral link? I
>> have nothing to gain by recommending them.
>
> Just giving you a hard time...please don''t take away any hard  
> feelings ;-)
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> B.A.
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	Actually I haven''t used the semprons there but i have used them  
elsewhere and they definitely pack enough punch to do the trick. For  
$65 its a pretty good deal and can run quite a few apps. I run debian  
on there and it works great. But I guess it depends on what you want  
to run on the box. If your just serving normal rails apps that aren''t  
doing tons of cAlculations and stuff then the sempron is plenty. Ram  
is what you want to get the most of. Rails is not that computationaly  
intensive but it eats ram for breakfast. I recommend you spend the  
extra $10/month for 1 gig ram.

	No worries man, no offense taken ;)

-Ezra

I got a server at layeredtech, and so far so good. The AMD 3000+. FC4. 
And yeah, get a gig of RAM. And backup (ftp, extra drive, ...). Had my 
primary drive die recently and my backups largely saved my ass.

Joe

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On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz
wrote:
>Base System Configuration:
>
>AMD Sempron 2600
>80GB IDE Hard Drive
>512MB DDR RAM
>Bandwidth: 1000GB
>IP Addresses: 8 (5 usable)
>Private VLAN
>Basic Resource Monitoring
>FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows*
>100% Self Managed and Dedicated
>Monthly Fee Options:
>$65 | $19 Setup
They have another deal currently for a Celeron 2.0 Ghz, 1024M RAM and  
1500GB bandwidth for $5 more a month. I wonder if the boost in RAM and  
bandwidth would be worth going for the Celeron instead of the Sempron.

Also, have you tried running Xen on any of their servers at all?

Thanks Ezra.

B.A.

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On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:11 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> Base System Configuration:
>>
>> AMD Sempron 2600
>> 80GB IDE Hard Drive
>> 512MB DDR RAM
>> Bandwidth: 1000GB
>> IP Addresses: 8 (5 usable)
>> Private VLAN
>> Basic Resource Monitoring
>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows*
>> 100% Self Managed and Dedicated
>> Monthly Fee Options:
>> $65 | $19 Setup
>
> They have another deal currently for a Celeron 2.0 Ghz, 1024M RAM and
> 1500GB bandwidth for $5 more a month. I wonder if the boost in RAM and
> bandwidth would be worth going for the Celeron instead of the Sempron.
>
> Also, have you tried running Xen on any of their servers at all?
>
> Thanks Ezra.
>
> B.A.
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	Hmmm. I haven''t used celerons so I can''t attest to the
performance
but its nice to have a gig of ram. ANd yeah I have one server there  
that is all Xen''ed out. It wokrs fine. You just need to make sure you  
do everything very carefully. Especially after you compile the Xen  
kernel and have to reboot. The first time I did that my box didn''t  
come back up ;/ but that was my own fault. I put in a ticket asking  
them to move the Xen kernel and put the old on back in and they did  
it within a few hours.


Cheers-
-EZra

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> 	Hmmm. I haven''t used celerons so I can''t attest to the
performance
> but its nice to have a gig of ram. ANd yeah I have one server there
> that is all Xen''ed out. It wokrs fine. You just need to make sure
you
> do everything very carefully. Especially after you compile the Xen
> kernel and have to reboot. The first time I did that my box didn''t
> come back up ;/ but that was my own fault. I put in a ticket asking
> them to move the Xen kernel and put the old on back in and they did
> it within a few hours.
Hey Ezra - why/how do you use Xen? Is there any reason to use it on a 
single server? My knowledge of Xen is vague, but I was under the 
impression that it was used for managing multiple boxes.

Joe

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On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Joe Ruby wrote:
> Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>
>> 	Hmmm. I haven''t used celerons so I can''t attest to
the performance
>> but its nice to have a gig of ram. ANd yeah I have one server there
>> that is all Xen''ed out. It wokrs fine. You just need to make
sure you
>> do everything very carefully. Especially after you compile the Xen
>> kernel and have to reboot. The first time I did that my box
didn''t
>> come back up ;/ but that was my own fault. I put in a ticket asking
>> them to move the Xen kernel and put the old on back in and they did
>> it within a few hours.
>
> Hey Ezra - why/how do you use Xen? Is there any reason to use it on a
> single server? My knowledge of Xen is vague, but I was under the
> impression that it was used for managing multiple boxes.
>
> Joe
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Joe-

	Xen is actually a virtualization technology. It allows you to divide  
one physical server into multiple virtual servers. This way I can  
have 10 debian servers on one 2gig physical server. Each running one  
or two related apps. THis way you partition the resources so the apps  
or accounts don''t step on each other. Its also makes it so you can  
take snapshots of a running install and if anything gets fuxored you  
can restore from an image. It really is quite nice to use.

-Ezra