[Sussex] hosting

[Paul Graydon]

At the risk of sounding like I'm touting for business, have you 
considered Claranet?
Most of the NOC team I'm in are more than competent at Linux, with only 
a couple of exceptions in a team of 22.  I wouldn't necessarily 
guarantee you'd get much good out of the thirdline that calls initially 
come through to, but ultimately they're not the ones that do anything 
with customer's servers, we in NOC are.

Just one word of warning, general hosting prices for many ISPs are 
likely to take a sudden hike soon; TelecityRedbus, now that they've 
merged and are no longer competing against each other, are bumping their 
prices up and half the sector seems to be following suite.

Gareth Ablett wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm sure a lot of you have had experiance with hosting as have i but 
> getting that cost/support/service at the right balance is hard, at work 
> we recently got a server with rackspace for one of our clients i would 
> say there service is very good but for the rest of our clients a little 
> too pricy, i am going to ask them tommorow if they do a cheaper option 
> but it doesnt look promising.
> 
> for the other clients we use a range of hosts mainly supanames which i 
> do believe they have a teck support team either computer generated 
> answers or just complete dumies that cant read the question even if you 
> tell it to them in 10 differant ways. anyway I stop slaging them. we 
> have also used namesco and uk2 which are both a bit crap aswell.
> 
> we need a host for either a dedicated server with somthing like plesk on 
> or mayby a VPS with a cost preferably less then £1k per year, but the 
> most important thing is to have a support team that know what they are 
> doing so if you have had any experiance of this then i would love to know.
> 
> regards
> Gareth
> 
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