[dundee] Recommendations for Hosting and VPS companies?

[Kenny Coyle]

At the moment, I'm using a collection of VPSs and Dedicated Boxes from
Kimsufi:  http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/

So far, no complaints on either.

Cheers,
Kenny.

On 22 August 2012 13:07, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 August 2012 12:37, simon Wells <siwells at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with & can recommend a good, ideally UK
> based, web hosting company for a small number of low traffic, small-size
> personal sites? Similarly, I am also looking for a good Linux VPS provider,
> I was considering Linode but wondered if anyone had experience of and could
> recommend any other similar providers?
>
> Neither a VPS nor a "cloud provider" but a damn cheap, reliable and
> awesome hosting company are Hetzner...  Being a German company they
> don't meet your UK requirement either... but offer servers at
> incredible value... in comparison other providers seem incredibly
> expensive:
>
> http://hetzner.de/
>
> They're not virtual, so you're actually renting the real metal, and
> for ~19euros a month it's a damn good value... especially considering
> the kit you get for your money....  If you want to virtualise you can
> yourself and for cheaper than most VPSs.
>
> The servers aren't managed, so if the hardware dies, you need to tell
> them to fix it etc... but experience of this happening took less than
> 10 minutes to resolve (where after a fan died they located the server
> and installed a new fan within 5 minutes of us phoning).
>
> They're well worth looking at....  the first time provisioning takes a
> few days with various checks etc... but after they have a billing
> relationship with you they will provision servers instantly through
> their admin panel....  If you script your deployments and tool up you
> can deploy pretty much as quick as you can anywhere else.
>
> R.
>
> > These are for personal projects so I am looking for a good tradeoff
> between robust service and price rather than a fly-by-night or premium
> business service.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > Dr. Simon Wells
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> >
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