Jim Rippon wrote:
Laurie,
I can recommend these guys for a VPS:
http://www.xensmart.co.uk/plans.php
Their support is prompt and reliable, although I've not had cause to contact them for anything more technical than adding IP addresses to my VM. At the moment they have a 25% discount offer which I believe is still running.
I run ubuntu but they have system images for Gentoo, and you are able to re-kick your VM at any time through the management pages into a different distro.
Thanks for that, Jim, looks good.
If anyone else has a suggestion for co-lo, please let me have it!
Do you know if they provide usage stats? Bandwidth, CPU, memory etc., for planning purposes?
Also, I'm not too familiar with Xen, so, broadly, please, what's the difference between a "Virtual Dedicated Server (Xen HVM) [http://www.xensmart.co.uk/hvmplans.php]" and a "Virtual Private Server [http://www.xensmart.co.uk/plans.php]". Both are offering the same intro discount, but the former offers Gentoo 2010 and the latter Gentoo 2008... G2-2008 is reasonably easily updated, but that's likely to be at the consumption of a huge amount of bandwidth... We're still on Gentoo for a lot of services, so migrating to Ubuntu for those isn't an option right now.
Cheers, Laurie.