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hi i overheard your conversation about dedicated servers and i currently have some space left to place a few dedicated servers. My prices are around $200 a month for the cheapest models and higher if you want to have something big. we currently opperate 4 dedicated serversfor our own websites and we only had 1 hour downtime for those 4 in the last year. our servers are placed in a temperature and humidity controlled and quarded building. and they are connected through a 10mbit upstream/downstream link. If you haven't got the money for a dedicated server than you can still have a low cost sollution on one of our shared servers for just a few dollars a month.. I had the same idea a few years ago and that is why i currently have multiple server in my server farm. My shared servers are xeon 550 with 512mb ecc memory and with a raid configurated 17 gb scsi dirves for safety and backup.. we currently run win2k with asp and php mysql on one server and on the others linux with apache and php. but because the servers are my own i can install anything on them.. (ive got a trieout server at home to trie new software so don't worry about any crashes because of new untested software being installed) just contact me if you want more info: Jan Klopper jan@ever.nl or info@ehost.nl Michael Kimsal wrote: > Cheap is relative, but I see where you're coming from. I'd still > recommend rcrackspace.com, for example, but we had a couple bad > experiences with them. > > We were paying for weekly tape backups, and unfrotunately had a need to > restore some lost files. OOPS. Rackspace. didn't hook it up right. So > we had no files backed up. Actually, we're going thru this again with > them. And in another case, they mistakenly shut down the wrong server > (OURS!) because someone misread an email to tech support. OUR machine > was taken offline and was about 5 minutes from being reformatted for > someone else. This particular client is paying over $2k/month for > rackspace servers, and we STILL get treatment like this. I'm not syaing > they're BAD - they're growing, and these are pains you deal with. And we > always get stuff resolved, BUT, mistakes and problems happen no matter > WHAT price you pay. > > The system I have set up for $95/month has had 3 problems in 16 months, 1 > my own fault, and 2 hardware problems (fans I think). > > > > > > > "Michael > Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> wrote ... > > > > > > Perhaps you could invest in a small dedicated server and split the cost > > > with a > > > > few trusted development friends. A dedicated server could be had for as > > > little > > > > as $100/month here in the states. > > > > > > Where? The best I have been able find is about twice that. > > > > I wouldn't trust anyone if a server was that cheap. Generally, "you get > > what you pay for" has been my experience. My dedicated server costs me > > around $450/month and I'm really happy with the support. You can talk to > > people like rackspace.com, netinfra.com and dedicatedservers.net (I think) > > and their prices generally start at $200 or above. > > > > Check on things like backups, levels of support etc etc. > > > > I did see a Cobalt Raq for 29 UK Pounds per month (roughly $40), but let's > > face it, there's got to be a catch somewhere! > > > > Just my own views though :) > > > > Ade > > inovica.com > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net