Dedicated Host Recommendations?

Rails
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I currently have a dedicated server at ev1servers, but
it’s getting rather antiquated (Redhat 9) and am
looking to upgrade. I’m thinking about serverbeach.com

  • one of their CentOS servers. Anybody have any
    recommendations for dedicated servers on which to run
    Rails? Hopefully less than $200/month.

Thanks!
CSN

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Checkout dreamhost.com

I don’t have a dedicated server with them yet, but host 4-5 web sites
with
them. They are great and have been in the business for a while so are
reputable. According to their website dedicated servers start at
$99/month.

Cheers

Tim

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Hi

I currently have a dedicated server at ev1servers, but
it’s getting rather antiquated (Redhat 9) and am
looking to upgrade. I’m thinking about serverbeach.com

  • one of their CentOS servers. Anybody have any
    recommendations for dedicated servers on which to run
    Rails? Hopefully less than $200/month.

Consider renting a VPS instance from Aktiom (www.aktiom.com). They
are really cool and you remove the problem of rotting hardware from
your radar.

Regards

Manuel H.

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Jon S. wrote:

On 1/14/06, Manuel H. [email protected] wrote:

are really cool and you remove the problem of rotting hardware from
your radar.

Aktiom is using Virtuozzo, have you tried a VPS host that is using
Xen? For example quantac.com and several others. My friends are
telling me that Xen is a lot faster and more stable than UML and
Virtuozzo. Aktiom may be evaluating Xen too. Most of the hosting
providers are.

If you don’t mind shared hosting it is hard to beat the 12-month deal
at dreamhost using the 777 coupon. It works out to $0.77 a month,
$9.24 for the year with no setup fee.

–
Jon S.
[email protected]

if you kow your stuff serverpronto.com might be the answer

they are so cheap that i singed up to find drawbacks…havet found any
far (3 months)…check www.ting.minline.dk for a small rails app

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that is really unbelievable cheap.

Well, if you just want cheap zen-based VPS with RAID storage, I have
heared
good things about http://www.unixshell.com/

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Jon S. wrote:

On 1/14/06, Manuel H. [email protected] wrote:

are really cool and you remove the problem of rotting hardware from
your radar.

Aktiom is using Virtuozzo, have you tried a VPS host that is using
Xen? For example quantac.com and several others. My friends are
telling me that Xen is a lot faster and more stable than UML and
Virtuozzo. Aktiom may be evaluating Xen too. Most of the hosting
providers are.

If you don’t mind shared hosting it is hard to beat the 12-month deal
at dreamhost using the 777 coupon. It works out to $0.77 a month,
$9.24 for the year with no setup fee.

–
Jon S.
[email protected]

I beg your pardon? $9.24 for a year? Where do you enter this 777
coupon? That would be hard to pass up.

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On 1/14/06, Manuel H. [email protected] wrote:

are really cool and you remove the problem of rotting hardware from
your radar.

Aktiom is using Virtuozzo, have you tried a VPS host that is using
Xen? For example quantac.com and several others. My friends are
telling me that Xen is a lot faster and more stable than UML and
Virtuozzo. Aktiom may be evaluating Xen too. Most of the hosting
providers are.

If you don’t mind shared hosting it is hard to beat the 12-month deal
at dreamhost using the 777 coupon. It works out to $0.77 a month,
$9.24 for the year with no setup fee.

–
Jon S.
[email protected]

8

On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Manuel H. wrote:

are really cool and you remove the problem of rotting hardware from
your radar.

Regards

Manuel H.

If you are looking for a Xen based vps then unixshell.com is ok.

http://rimuhosting.com is a great place for Xen based VPS servers.
But it sounds like you want a dedicated box(<$200). I have a few
dedicated boxes at http://layeredtech.com. You can get a sweet AMD
3800+ with 1gig ram and 80gig hd for $89/month. Its hard to beat that
price and they have a really good reputation on webhostingtalk.

Whatever you choose, I have a nice tutorial written up on setting up

a debian/rails vps or dedicated server from scratch. You can chekc it
out here: Ruby on Rails Blog / What is Ruby on Rails for?

Cheers-
-Ezra Z.
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
[email protected]
509-577-7732

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On 1/15/06, sross [email protected] wrote:

coupon? That would be hard to pass up.
www.Dreamhost.com pays a $100 commission for people that bring it new
accounts. The 777 coupon effectively lets you keep your own
commission. Sign up for 12 months of the $9.95 plan. During checkout
enter the coupon and the total will drop to $9.24 for the year. They
limit the number of 777 coupons that can be used so it may take
multiple tries over time.

Rails is installed, 20GB disk, 1TB xfer. I am on a quad xeon box but
it is not very heavily loaded. There are a lot of accounts on my box
but no one is really using them, 75% haven’t even set up their home
page.

–
Jon S.
[email protected]

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Have you checked out the VPS plans?
I found www.rimuhosting.com to be good.The support is good and they have
affordable VPS plans. I am sure they have dedicated hosting too.
vivek

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I second Rimu. Reasonable prices and the support rocks.

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Ezra Z. wrote:

But it sounds like you want a dedicated box(<$200). I have a few
dedicated boxes at http://layeredtech.com. You can get a sweet AMD
3800+ with 1gig ram and 80gig hd for $89/month. Its hard to beat that
price and they have a really good reputation on webhostingtalk.

Nice :). That’s about exactly what I’m looking for and their prices are
the best I’ve seen. I hadn’t heard of them.

csn

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Hi, csn,

maybe you can read german or know anyone in germany who might help you
on getting an account on strato.de or 1und1.de.

I’ve had dedicated root servers on both services and had no problem but
a good and reliable service. I’m not associated with one of them (not
even an affiliate partner). I’ve always wondered why the german
providers seem to be ahead of the game regarding dedicated hosting
(looking at layeredtech.com us hosters seem to catch up but when I was
looking a few month ago dedicated hosting in the us seemed to be quite
expensive).

Some examples:
strato highend server mr2, opteron 146, unlimited traffic, 1 gig ram,
2x160 gig hd, 160 gig backup space on ftp, â?¬ 69,- / month
strato highend server lr2, opteron 148, unlimited traffic, 2 gig ram,
2x160 raid 1, 160 gig backup space on ftp, â?¬ 109,- / month
( http://www.strato.de/server/highend/index.html )

A watchlist on prices and services for hosting (and dedicated servers)
in german: http://www.webhostlist.de

Best regards
Jan