Re: Managed VPS recommendations

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > So that's a couple of votes for individual people. What company do they work for? :-) > We're not looking for "a guy", we're looking for a firm with a good reputation. Parasane is a whole company, not just me. I'm just the one who started it back in 2000.... but I wouldn't set you up on a VPS anyway. I began to refuse to sell those in the last few months because they're more of a scam than anything. "Hey, let's charge the client the same amount as a fully-dedicated server - if not more - but put them on a shared box with limited resources." Yes, the host makes more money --- a LOT more money --- on the sale of VPS systems, especially when you stack them up in copious amounts like people do. I can charge one customer what I pay for the whole server, another customer what the license fees are for the software, and the remaining eighteen are profit.... but the problem is that *I* know they're getting crap service. There are a few decent providers who do VPS stuff though. Surprisingly (and much to my chagrin) is that GoDaddy is one of them. -- </Daniel P. Brown> http://www.parasane.net/ daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net Ask me about our current hosting/dedicated server deals!