Dedicated Hosting Suggestions

Instrumentalist

Instrumentalist

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Aug 11, 2009
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Looking to take my business to the next level. What are your suggestions for a dedicated box? Looking for something with cPanel. Cost isn't that much of a factor, but if I can save money why not. I'm just looking for something very robust. I plan on having at least 100 websites, lol.
 


I've been using Verio for all my hosting and it's been pretty solid (a mix of shared and VPSs). Contact Mark Hayward (mhayward @ verio.net), tell him I referred you, and he can walk you through the whole process and put you in touch with one of their engineers to make sure they can fit your needs.

Only had one noticeable outage for the past few years that had me offline for about a day while they were upgrading cable infrastructure that took longer than they had planned at one of the datacenters. Other than that it's been great and I regularly get calls asking how I'm finding the hosting. 24/7 phone support (native English speakers), etc. I haven't gotten the runaround trying to get stuff solved if I have an issue.
 
Bofu2U said:
I haven't been as happy with any company as I am with Liquidweb right now - support's top notch.

Level 3 tech on every phone call is always a plus for me, and sales are definitely flexible about pricing.
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I second this. Even though I'm annoyed with their ads the support is orgasmic and security is really good.
 
If you're interested in WF recommendations, I use WiredTree - Managed Dedicated Servers | Managed VPS Hosting | Fully Managed Web Hosting to run a medium vBulletin forum (200-350 concurrent users, 3,500,000 posts).

Main thing I wanted was good customer service since hardware/software difference are pretty trivial in the saturated hosting market. I submit support tickets and they get answered within 5 minutes, and the rep is always knowledgeable, digging into ssh himself.

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With 100s of websites on the same box, I actually find cPanel and WHH incredible clunky. cPanel already feels like you're working with something that hasn't visually changed since 1999 (oh wait, it hasn't). Switching between websites is a pain when you're typing passwords into default auth protocol dialogs.

Is there any better backend for managing a lot of websites on a box?
 
For anyone on WF interested: I might have three dedicated servers (dell 2950s) loaded with ram if anyone is interested in leasing them (managed) - can setup whatever you want on them -- let me know... (not available today,er this second at least, but near future)
 
I have just came out from a horrible experience with VPSLatch where the support is brilliant, but their servers are slower than the worst shared hosting provider I've been with. So, when mentioning support and the copy paste fluff they can trhough at you, include details about server specs and speed.
 
Bofu2U said:
I haven't been as happy with any company as I am with Liquidweb right now - support's top notch.

Level 3 tech on every phone call is always a plus for me, and sales are definitely flexible about pricing.
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Liquid Web is very solid. I like Soft Layer too. This is just for hosting though and not for mailing..

SG
 
Something else to consider..

A CPanel license is around $400/year. You dont need a superpowerful server to host CPanel. So dig up an idle p4 server, load CentOS and buy Cpanel and install it.. (This is alot easier than you would think) Grab a battery back up for a coulple hundred bucks and plug in your cpanel server in your office/home cable modem and run with it.. (You will want a static IP) Chances are, you will have as little downtime or less than a datacenter.. And instead of paying $200/mo x 12 months = $2400/year you pay $400/year plus your cable modem bill and the one time cost of your hardware..

SG
 
SuperGenii said:
Something else to consider..

A CPanel license is around $400/year. You dont need a superpowerful server to host CPanel. So dig up an idle p4 server, load CentOS and buy Cpanel and install it.. (This is alot easier than you would think) Grab a battery back up for a coulple hundred bucks and plug in your cpanel server in your office/home cable modem and run with it.. (You will want a static IP) Chances are, you will have as little downtime or less than a datacenter.. And instead of paying $200/mo x 12 months = $2400/year you pay $400/year plus your cable modem bill and the one time cost of your hardware..

SG
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Worst advice I have ever heard.
 
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