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trigatch4

trigatch4

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www.eurekadiary.com
My host has effed up for the last time and I'm seeking new hosting.

  • Dedicated Hosting
  • $300/month maximum budget
  • Awesome support
  • CPanel enabled
Recommendations please... and if I use one of the companies posted I'll happily purchase through an affiliate link. Just don't let that influence your recommendation.
 


What did they do to screw up? Just curious if it was too much downtime, or if the server getting trashed from ddos or virus.

I've been happy with mod_security running on Apache, shared hosting with Hostgator. But I don't have the coin yet to move to a dedicated box.
 
check out TechieMedia... their tech support is awesome... if I have a serious problem they are on it within minutes...

earlier this year they rescued over a hundred of my sites from dreamhost... they sorted out all the issues I had with the scripts not working, etc... that's one thing I love about them, they offer support for 3rd party scripts, which has saved me loads of time and aggravation... they're also nice to me when I ask them stupid questions :)
 
Hi dude,

No matter wt hosting company you are going to hire. Just check these points before hireing:

Access to control panel - You should not use a host unless it gives you access to a well defined control panel. What does this do for you? It allows you to control the features of your web site (account) from your web browser. For example, using the menu you should be able to upload files, protect directories, add autoresponders and so on.

Excellent automation - This is perhaps one of the more important features of a good host. Automation. You should be able to access everything you want from a well designed menu and do virtually anything without involving a human being.

Control of creating protected directories - Sometimes it doesn't seem important, but sooner or later you will almost certainly want to create a protected directory. This is a directory (or folder) on your web site which requires a username and password. Any good web host will allow you to do this directly from your account menu.

And the Last but not least.

Domain Parking - It's incredible useful to be able to park a domain on your web site. This can be useful for having several closely related domain names (internet-tips.net and internet-secrets.net for exmaple) as well as to just reserve domains for future use. A good host should be able to allow you to do this for at least a dozen domain names.
 
Mark_anderson said:
Hi dude,

No matter wt hosting company you are going to hire. Just check these points before hireing:

Access to control panel - You should not use a host unless it gives you access to a well defined control panel. What does this do for you? It allows you to control the features of your web site (account) from your web browser. For example, using the menu you should be able to upload files, protect directories, add autoresponders and so on.

Excellent automation - This is perhaps one of the more important features of a good host. Automation. You should be able to access everything you want from a well designed menu and do virtually anything without involving a human being.

Control of creating protected directories - Sometimes it doesn't seem important, but sooner or later you will almost certainly want to create a protected directory. This is a directory (or folder) on your web site which requires a username and password. Any good web host will allow you to do this directly from your account menu.

And the Last but not least.

Domain Parking - It's incredible useful to be able to park a domain on your web site. This can be useful for having several closely related domain names (internet-tips.net and internet-secrets.net for exmaple) as well as to just reserve domains for future use. A good host should be able to allow you to do this for at least a dozen domain names.
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Could you not tell that we're talking about dedicated hosting by the post title? Or maybe the other replies? What about the fact that we're TALKING ABOUT DEDI'S?!? SHEESH.
 
Fer Christs sake avoid ServerPronto. I had a server go down, it took them 4 days to respond to my support ticket, and another day to reboot the server. Fuckbags.
 
cowsnuker said:
Use a VPS.

slicehost.com / linode.com are my recommendations.
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You twat.. Why would anyone specifically looking for a certain type of product listen to recommendations from someone who blatantly ignores their (very clearly stated) requirements and tells them to use an inferior solution?
 
LazyHippy said:
You twat.. Why would anyone specifically looking for a certain type of product listen to recommendations from someone who blatantly ignores their (very clearly stated) requirements and tells them to use an inferior solution?
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You're right, I should have clearly explained by I recommended a VPS to save them money, when the chances of them being able to completely use all the available resources of a Dedicated box is almost completely nil, and they want stability - which they can get fallover IP's, a nice console in case they lock themselves out, and always upgrade on the fly if something truly exceeds their expectations.

If you really want to own a Dedicated server with a VPS, check out Amazon EC2.

As for Cpanel, you can grab a box from Linode or Slicehost, then check out a licensing company for Cpanel, which is about 14$/mo... on top of a 20$/mo basic VPS, and most of those companies will install everything for you.

34$. Higher Profit Margin.
 
cowsnuker said:
You're right, I should have clearly explained by I recommended a VPS to save them money, when the chances of them being able to completely use all the available resources of a Dedicated box is almost completely nil, and they want stability - which they can get fallover IP's, a nice console in case they lock themselves out, and always upgrade on the fly if something truly exceeds their expectations.

If you really want to own a Dedicated server with a VPS, check out Amazon EC2.

As for Cpanel, you can grab a box from Linode or Slicehost, then check out a licensing company for Cpanel, which is about 14$/mo... on top of a 20$/mo basic VPS, and most of those companies will install everything for you.

34$. Higher Profit Margin.
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Again?

He wants dedicated cuase he's hustler... can't u scroll up and read a bit?

Are u a VPS freak?
 
cowsnuker said:
You're right, I should have clearly explained by I recommended a VPS to save them money, when the chances of them being able to completely use all the available resources of a Dedicated box is almost completely nil, and they want stability - which they can get fallover IP's, a nice console in case they lock themselves out, and always upgrade on the fly if something truly exceeds their expectations.

If you really want to own a Dedicated server with a VPS, check out Amazon EC2.

As for Cpanel, you can grab a box from Linode or Slicehost, then check out a licensing company for Cpanel, which is about 14$/mo... on top of a 20$/mo basic VPS, and most of those companies will install everything for you.

34$. Higher Profit Margin.
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Ok, and now it's time for me to set you straight. For someone thats all for saving money, why are you getting screwed so bad? cPanel for VPS is a $5 monthly fee at cost, which most VPS providers will give you it at that cost - so why are you paying $15?

Second - VPS's are great and all for lower scale op's, but once you get over a certain threshold (you know.. like over 500 visitors a day on a mysql site) - most VPS's will buckle unless it's PROPERLY setup, which is almost never now a days.

Make sure you do your benchmarks. Until then, I'll stick with my 8 core opteron form Softlayer.
 
Bofu2U said:
Second - VPS's are great and all for lower scale op's, but once you get over a certain threshold (you know.. like over 500 visitors a day on a mysql site) - most VPS's will buckle unless it's PROPERLY setup, which is almost never now a days.
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I must be insanely lucky as I have several sites over that threshold ... many on shared and not a single one on a dedicated. In fact, I've had one site hit 5k daily on a shared plan before feeling any pinch, moved to vps and it looks like I've got the resources for about 20-30k daily.

I've got no advice for trig as I don't run a dedicated anything anywhere ... sorry for adding so little to the conversation.
 
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