[Nottingham] Colo / dedicated or virtual servers

[Graeme Fowler]

Howdy

As some of you may already know, I'm no longer a part of the hosting 
world having left the Webfusion/Host Europe/Pipex/GX/Donhost/Nildram et 
al family in February.

That means I no longer have relatively easy access to oodles of 
datacentre space with masses of bandwidth, and I'm trying to work out 
what the way forward for my future hosting requirements are. I've run my 
own servers for a long time, so I expect if I went for a proscribed 
virtual hosting package I'd feel a bit like my legs have been chopped off.

So, I'm looking for good, reliable, doesn't-have-to-be-fast but 
does-have-to-be-good hosting; either colo (for a 1U server), or decent 
VPS-type hosting, or even decent but cheap dedicated servers. Googling 
around gets millions of hits so I'd like to see what everyone else is 
doing - and yes, I know that there are people on this list providing it, 
and I have read back through the archive, but I thought an up-to-date 
viewpoint would be useful.

Replies on-or-offlist welcome!

Graeme