# Good Ubuntu Root-Access Dedicated Server?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255 "2007-04-06T00:47:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255/1 "2007-04-06T00:47:52Z")

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In January I moved a client off of dedicated hosting and moved them to  
VPSLink. I dug the VPS concept, but found myself chafing against the  
limits of OpenVZ.

In the past couple of months I’ve moved two clients from Textdrive to  
Debian environments on Slicehost, and I am happy with the outcome.  
Yay Xen.

Now I have a project that requires gobs of disk space, so I’m looking  
for a someone to provide a hardware-managed Ubuntu box on which I’d  
have root access. I’d use a VPS if I could find one with \>300gigs of  
storage, but I am of the impression that this is a pretty tall order.

I’ll be googling furiously, but my experience shows that good hosting  
companies can become mediocre-to-crap hosting companies in a short  
timeframe. I’m here to kneel before the Church of What’s Happening  
Now, baby.

* * *

Lars Lehtonen

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255/2 "2007-04-06T01:16:56Z")

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On Friday 06 April 2007 8:16 am, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I’d use a VPS if I could find one with \>300gigs of  
> storage, but I am of the impression that this is a pretty tall order.

have you considered using Amazon S3 storage from you current VPS. There  
are  
drivers available to mount the Amazon S3 as a local drive on Linux. You  
then  
have unlimited storage.

> **[Cloud Object Storage – Amazon S3 – Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/)**
>
> Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Cheers,

Anthony

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255/3 "2007-04-09T21:48:38Z")

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Lars,

look at RimuHosting ([http://www.rimuhosting.com](http://www.rimuhosting.com)).

I’m still testing my first Rails app with them, but offers all that you  
are asking for: an Ubuntu 6.10 Box Rails ready.

Good luck.

Juan M. Blasco, Madrid, Spain.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/good-ubuntu-root-access-dedicated-server/91255/4 "2007-04-09T22:19:45Z")

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You can also try SliceHost: [http://www.slicehost.com](http://www.slicehost.com)

On 4/9/07, Juan M. Blasco [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Juan M. Blasco, Madrid, Spain.
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> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
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–  
Chris B.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid