Hi, A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows about a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but ofcourse) as a os choice, and that is very reliable. I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 months. Unacceptable. But yes, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks
Hi Jean, Jean Figarella wrote:> Hi, > > A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows > about a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but > ofcourse) as a os choice, and that is very reliable. > > I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 > months. Unacceptable. > > But yes, any suggestions are greatly appreciated.I too used to use Superb and wouldn't go back there again. I would also recommend against The Planet in Dallas, while they have gotten better in the past year, we had a server down for 5 hours, the reason? "Sorry, one of our techs apparently tripped over the power cord to your server and unplugged it." Stay far away from The Planet. If you have your own box, CIHost.com is pretty good and they often have some pretty good specials. Link a 1U space for $49.00 per month, but it does require prepaying for 1 year in advance, and this is space/bandwidth - you supply your own server. I have rack space in the Dallas data center, from tests some friends and I have done, it appears ping times to their Chicago data center are faster, but I prefer being near my servers and I am in the Dallas area. They also offer dedicated servers, but not sure if they offer CentOS. Dale
Jean Figarella wrote:> Hi, > > A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows about > a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but ofcourse) as a > os choice, and that is very reliable. > > I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 months. > Unacceptable. > > But yes, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. >The *.centos.org network runs off donated dedicated machines by various hosting companies, you could start by looking there to find a potential host ( list at http://www.centos.org/mirrors : look at the banner adverts on the page ) - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Jean Figarella wrote:> A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows > about a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but > ofcourse) as a os choice, and that is very reliable. > > I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 > months. Unacceptable.Check out LiquidWeb at liquidweb.com. I haven't had any unscheduled downtime since Nov. 04 when I switched to them from Superb. We have 4 dedicated servers there. One note of concern though -- I just went to their website and they are promoting Windows servers. Hmm...when I signed up with them they were 95% Linux. Maybe that explains why one of the recent techs I contacted was not as on the ball as when I began. Take care, Kurt Hansen khansen at charityweb.net
Jean Figarella <jfigarella at vecna.com> wrote:> I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 > months. Unacceptable.Interesting. I've been coloed there for years and have never had the slightest issue. In fact, a hurricane flooded the area and I never even noticed. They were supposedly on backup power for days. Do you know what datacenter you're in? robert
Jean Figarella wrote:> Hi, > > A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows about > a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but ofcourse) as a > os choice, and that is very reliable.I have used layeredtech.com for about a year and a half now with no problems at all. Patrick