OK, my server hosting is due for renewal and I'm looking at options for an alternative. Currently I'm on a virtual server setup, but this is too limiting for some things I want to do, so does anyone have any recommendations?
Obviously I need a good price and solid support where needed, but beyond that I have some flexibility:
- Just rack space and bandwidth costs - I can look at building my own
box - quite happy to do this.
Server with bandwidth costs - and I'll install my own software.
Server preinstalled with bandwidth costs.
Obviously these involve way different costs, or can do.
We have rackspace in London (Radbus) and host our owe servers + some dedicated servers, we also have some in Manchester as well as lots in the US
However our colo costs are located @ http://www.php4hosting.co.uk/ukcolo.htm
We can also help with part numbers from Dab's etc.. to build your own Linux box as a very good rate plus let you know where to buy 1/2u cases from. 2u's are always better in my opinion for cooling + space for spare hardware etc..
I would also recommend using Norton ghost to ensure you have an image handy on cd should the hard disk fail so you can have it backup asap and use something such as rsync to ensure you have an hourly or at worst daily backup of key files. If using mySQL its nice to run mysqldump and scp it to a secure location as often as possible.
We can help with all if this we can even for colo customers build/install servers to their spec. Although as a rule we use slackware. But anything is possible. We have ghost handy and should any customers wish to put their server in our racks we can ghost it before it goes in and keep a copy of the cd at the rack or give it to the customer.
Regards Darren