Guys,
I’m in the market for a reliable, trustworthy dedicated server solution.
I’ve been running my own servers internally on a Speakeasy Static IP DSL
connection, but recent problems with my local loop has caused me to
reconsider this solution.
completelydedicated.com offers a value Sempron for $59/monthly…a bit
higher than I wish to go but I have no choice. Can anyone weigh in on
this company or any competitively priced companies, and, additionally,
on a Sempron for a server? I can’t imagine it would be a step down…my
current server is a 900Mhz AMD Athlon.
Thanks!
B.A.
B.A. Baracus: I thought you weren’t crazy no more?
Murdock: Only on paper.
Or serverpronto.com, as an alternative. They seem to be competitively
priced and “look” to be reputable. Still would love to hear opinions.
Thanks!
B.A.
On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:05 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
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Hey-
I have had very good luck with http://layeredtech.com and I know
many others on the list have as well. They have very good pricing and
a comparable deal to what you are looking at is:
Base System Configuration:
AMD Sempron 2600
80GB IDE Hard Drive
512MB DDR RAM
Bandwidth: 1000GB
IP Addresses: 8 (5 usable)
Private VLAN
Basic Resource Monitoring
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows*
100% Self Managed and Dedicated
Monthly Fee Options:
$65 | $19 Setup
-Ezra
On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:19 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
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Nope I don’t work for them. And layeredtech is in texas, rimuhosting
is in new zealand but with data centers in texas. I admin 7 boxes
with layered for the last year or so and I have not had any down time
yet. Notice I didn’t give you a referral link? I have nothing to gain
by recommending them.
-Ezra
On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Z. wrote:
I have had very good luck with http://layeredtech.com and I know
many others on the list have as well. They have very good pricing
and a comparable deal to what you are looking at is:
Ezra,
I have indeed read a few posts from you stating that they’ve provided
good and reliable service. Can I assume you are a shareholder or part
owner?
Seriously…my one concern with them is that they are in New
Zealand…not a U.S. company (where I am) and I assume servers are not
stateside as well (but admittedly need to review their site more to find
out).
How long have they been around? How long have you been with them?
Thanks,
B.A.
B.A. Baracus: I thought you weren’t crazy no more?
Murdock: Only on paper.
On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Ezra Z. wrote:
Nope I don’t work for them. And layeredtech is in texas,
rimuhosting is in new zealand but with data centers in texas.
You are right…my mistake. I think I had looked up Rimu at the same
time and gotten the two confused.
I admin 7 boxes with layered for the last year or so and I have not
had any down time yet.
Are you running on Semprons? How has your performance been? Any idea for
cost for overages? I can’t seem to find that.
Additionally, what Linux are you running? I wish they offered
Ubuntu…it appears Debian is the closest they have, unforunately.
Notice I didn’t give you a referral link? I
have nothing to gain by recommending them.
Just giving you a hard time…please don’t take away any hard feelings
Thanks for the input.
B.A.
I got a server at layeredtech, and so far so good. The AMD 3000+. FC4.
And yeah, get a gig of RAM. And backup (ftp, extra drive, …). Had my
primary drive die recently and my backups largely saved my ass.
Joe
On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:28 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
Just giving you a hard time…please don’t take away any hard
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Actually I haven't used the semprons there but i have used them
elsewhere and they definitely pack enough punch to do the trick. For
$65 its a pretty good deal and can run quite a few apps. I run debian
on there and it works great. But I guess it depends on what you want
to run on the box. If your just serving normal rails apps that aren’t
doing tons of cAlculations and stuff then the sempron is plenty. Ram
is what you want to get the most of. Rails is not that computationaly
intensive but it eats ram for breakfast. I recommend you spend the
extra $10/month for 1 gig ram.
No worries man, no offense taken ;)
-Ezra
On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Ezra Z. wrote:
100% Self Managed and Dedicated
Monthly Fee Options:
$65 | $19 Setup
They have another deal currently for a Celeron 2.0 Ghz, 1024M RAM and
1500GB bandwidth for $5 more a month. I wonder if the boost in RAM and
bandwidth would be worth going for the Celeron instead of the Sempron.
Also, have you tried running Xen on any of their servers at all?
Thanks Ezra.
B.A.
On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:11 PM, BA Baracus wrote:
Basic Resource Monitoring
Thanks Ezra.
B.A.
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Hmmm. I haven't used celerons so I can't attest to the performance
but its nice to have a gig of ram. ANd yeah I have one server there
that is all Xen’ed out. It wokrs fine. You just need to make sure you
do everything very carefully. Especially after you compile the Xen
kernel and have to reboot. The first time I did that my box didn’t
come back up ;/ but that was my own fault. I put in a ticket asking
them to move the Xen kernel and put the old on back in and they did
it within a few hours.
Cheers-
-EZra
Ezra Z. wrote:
Hmmm. I haven’t used celerons so I can’t attest to the performance
but its nice to have a gig of ram. ANd yeah I have one server there
that is all Xen’ed out. It wokrs fine. You just need to make sure you
do everything very carefully. Especially after you compile the Xen
kernel and have to reboot. The first time I did that my box didn’t
come back up ;/ but that was my own fault. I put in a ticket asking
them to move the Xen kernel and put the old on back in and they did
it within a few hours.
Hey Ezra - why/how do you use Xen? Is there any reason to use it on a
single server? My knowledge of Xen is vague, but I was under the
impression that it was used for managing multiple boxes.
Joe
On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Joe R. wrote:
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Joe-
Xen is actually a virtualization technology. It allows you to divide
one physical server into multiple virtual servers. This way I can
have 10 debian servers on one 2gig physical server. Each running one
or two related apps. THis way you partition the resources so the apps
or accounts don’t step on each other. Its also makes it so you can
take snapshots of a running install and if anything gets fuxored you
can restore from an image. It really is quite nice to use.
-Ezra