Any VPS or cheap dedi recommendations?

[James-A]

I'm sure this has been covered before but the search is being gay (won't recognise VPS as it's only 3 characters - even with other words - and no results for "VPS hosting").

I'm looking for a VPS or budget dedi box, ideally with cPanel. (managemybox .com looks good price-wise, anyone used them?)

Also, I've got no fuckin idea what spec I'll need really. Guessing that php/mysql is gonna be the most resource-intensive stuff I'll be using. How do Intel and AMD compare for LAMP setups? Are Celerons ok or not worth even bothering with?

Cheers.

What is your budget for the VPS or the dedicated server?

 

[che1959]

I like Tektonic.net for their unmanaged plans. If you can manage a server, you get great up time and a cheap price.

 

[oziman]

but then the basic dedi's at managemybox (sounds like they should be pimps or something!) aren't much more - more space and bandwidth for the cash, ram about the same, but guessing a slower cpu and (relatively) a lot more cash for cPanel... hmmm

The reason you pay more at LW is because you get what you pay for - someone in Michigan who will pick up the phone 24/7. I've had them work on problems for 3 hours and them email me back telling me it was fixed.. can't beat that.

This is the only company I evangelize for - it's the only online company I'm genuinely excited to recommend..

g'luck.

 

[LazyHippy]

What is your budget for the VPS or the dedicated server?

$100/£50 per month max. Which seems fine for a VPS, but not a managed dedi. Ideally less - I'd rather get 2 x $50/month setups to keep some stuff separate.

A couple of people on the SQUIRT forum have suggest a min. of 2Gb RAM - not something that seems common on a VPS...

Anyone got any thoughts on processors? They seem to go from 2GHz celerons upwards..

Also, which version of Linux? So much fuckin choice!

 

[scnxga]

I'm sure this has been covered before but the search is being gay (won't recognise VPS as it's only 3 characters - even with other words - and no results for "VPS hosting").

I'm looking for a VPS or budget dedi box, ideally with cPanel. (managemybox .com looks good price-wise, anyone used them?)

Also, I've got no fuckin idea what spec I'll need really. Guessing that php/mysql is gonna be the most resource-intensive stuff I'll be using. How do Intel and AMD compare for LAMP setups? Are Celerons ok or not worth even bothering with?

Cheers.

For VPS, I have been with powervps for 2 years. Very good, don't give me much problem. Others vps I have used before are liquidweb, servint, steadfast networks, dehe.com. All not bad.

For dedicated, I use softlayer. Not the cheapest but stable servers.