[Gllug] Heavy-ish Linux Hosting.

[Martyn Drake]

Hi,

Rackspace on the whole are okay.  I have a Linux dedicated server with
them that I use for personal use (sites listed in signature are hosted
on that server) and I can't complain about too many problems (other than
the time they billed me twice in one month causing me to go overdrawn
big time - but they did promptly refund me and gave the next month at
half price and there has been no other billing screw-ups since).  In a
professional capacity they've been okay, but suffered horrible problems
with them with regards to their tape backups.  

We've had problems whereby the tape drive has either failed; somebody
has inserted the wrong tape type in the drive, a Rackspace technician
altering the backup scripts and then forgetting to put it back in the
Cron job, and as a consequence lost a lot of days where we had no
backup.  Getting compensation from them was very difficult.

They control panel is quite nice, and they are a fairly efficient
ticketing system.  Overall, I'd say they are no better or worse than
say, Webfusion.

Just my tuppence.

Regards,

	Martyn

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-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf
Of roland dunn
Sent: 07 December 2001 11:40
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Heavy-ish Linux Hosting.

Hi,

Wonder if folks could possibly help. We've potentially got some work for
a
company wishing to build a promotional website. We reckon they'll be
getting
around 90 unique users/minute hitting the site, site running an Oracle
DB,
people registering and filling in various bits of information.

So, we're looking for hosting for a setup something like:
. Couple of webservers.
. One Oracle DB.
. One backup Oracle DB, mirrored ideally.
. Some load balancing hardware in front of webservers.
. Some firewall hardware in front of webservers.

We'll want to run a version of Linux, possibly RH.
Does anyone know a good, a really good, hosting company who are savvy
re:
Linux.

We've used Rackspace in the passed and they seem pretty good, I just
wondered whether people knew anyone else, or recommended anyone else?

Cheers Roland.








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