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In general, rackshack.net looks like a cheap acceptable solution: a dedicated server with 400Gb of monthly transfer, but mind you - you need to have _strong_administrative_knowledge_ to run the server as their support is no good for anything else but for rebooting the server or replacing a faulty hardware part.
I'll second that. We went to a dedicated solution about 18 months ago. We didn't really know what we were doing and made some errors setting up the name server and on some sql server settings. Not easy stuff! Everything ended up working out OK for us, but you will definitely be on your own.
What about the quality of connection ?
What are the other requirements:
- support (live/email/ICQ/telephone)?
- hardware specs?
- root access?
- administration panel (Plesk, Ensim, etc)?
I will have someone to administer the server; support requirements would be minimal as long as there is some contact if the lights go out.
Root access preferable with either ensim or plesk installed.
Hardware specs is what i also need advice on; it will be mainly an image server with heavy loads on the weekends.
I'm not after the cheapest but rather something that can do the job without me getting my pants pulled down in the process paying for it.
Good rates and *great* service.
P.S.. They provide CPanel, which is much better then Plesk or Ensim :)
This is possible - they have got forum / ICQ / ticket support.
> Root access preferable with either ensim or plesk installed.
this I'm nor sure about - but for pure Linux box they provide ROOT by default.
> Hardware specs is what i also need advice on; it will be mainly an image server with heavy loads on the weekends.
The server I work with is Compaq PIII-1Ghz, 512Mb mem. It pushes ~1.5-2.0 million banner impressions a day without straining too much. Banners are served via banner manager that consumes quite a lot of resources in comparison to plain Apache. Serving images via Apache, you'll be able to serve several times more than the numbers I quoted.
> I'm not after the cheapest but rather something that can do the job without me getting my pants pulled down in the process paying for it.
They are good from this point of view: $99 - $130 per month is a very decent price for a dedicated server with bandwidth.
> What about the quality of connection ?
The server I mentioned pushes ~3-4 gigabytes per day. I never experienced any probelms with quality or speed of the connection (I kind of heard they work via Verio, which is fast).
