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.
HTH,
Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Brown" laurie@brownowl.com To: "ALUG" main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, 6 October, 2010 10:25:15 AM Subject: [ALUG] Co-lo and VM hosting
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.
Cheers, Laurie.