Hi,
If your a windows user, then ignore the text below.
Quantact.com are great. Great value, great support, I've been with them
for a few years now.
I guess the only downside is that while the bandwidth is great (both
quota and speed), and the hard drive access is fast, the memory usage is
usually much lower, although on the OpenVZ plans can burst up higher if
needed.
You get full root access (SSH), and I've installed Apache, PHP, MySQL,
Exim, and Mailman, and could do more if I wanted (FTP, DNS, SVN), except
I run most of the other services on other boxes.
The uptime is usually pretty great, although I've had two issues in
recent memory where something major has died (like the hard drive raid
array, or the motherboard), taking the server down for >1 hour, which
may not be acceptable if your doing financial transactions, but ask them
about the Xen hosting, which might have better data replication.
I know they have snapshot capabilities, although you need to stop the
server for a while to do that, so I just run a daily rsync onto a Linux
box at home. rSnapshot is great for that.
Running your own server may be a bit more work, but it's so much more
customisable. Don't have PERL? apt-get install it (assuming Debian or
Ubuntu), need to probe a server? Run nmap.
I have a script that emails me the compressed MySQL database, and also
have a PHP CLI script that I cronjob daily to send me the server stats,
membership details of various mailman mailing lists, amount of data
transferred, HDD space left, ram used, uptime, and current load, and all
sorts of things.
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions <http://www.greyphoenix.biz>
Daniel Brown wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:03, Martin Zvarík <mzvarik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I currently host my site by Powweb, and I am WANT to change it - can you
guys recommend me something good?
Powweb's website looks awesome and it's the best marketing I think I had
saw! After a minute it makes you think there is NO better hosting - and it's
a LIE.
