On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:25:15 +0100 Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com allegedly wrote:
We find ourselves in need to some tertiary DNS and other services, and am looking at either using a VM, or some co-lo.
In the case of the former, can anyone on-list recommend a Linux-supporting VM company, either Ubuntu or Gentoo (the latter fairly important)?
In the case of the latter, does anyone know and can recommend a local (to Ipswich) co-lo company with reasonable rates?
Bandwidth is an issue in each case, as we need to keep the servers current, and there's a fair amount of traffic flowing through.
Laurie
I use three different providers and can recommend all of them.
1. Bytemark - linux savvy and top marks for support. Their VMs are reasonably priced (starting at £15 pcm). They offer debian, ubuntu or centos, but not gentoo. I use my bytemark server for mail and web and the uptime is impressive. This is thgeone to go for for professionalism and reliability.
2. Daily.co.uk - not quite as good as Bytemark, but very high bandwidth allowance (750 Gig pcm) and cheaper. They too offer ubuntu/debian/centos.
3. A new kid on the block called Thrust (thrustvps.com) who offer silly bandwidth (1 TB pcm) for silly money (I paid 58 quid for a year). My only complaint here is that they are not too stable (not as bad as rapidswitch, but if you must be up four nines or more you may be disappointed.) But they are new and they offer Centos, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Slackware (!) and Gentoo as well as a bunch of BSDs
Mick
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