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- ukit
Anyone host a site with them before?
Just reading comments on other message boards, they seem to get some of the best feedback of any hosting company. On the other hand, if I have to switch hosts again, it better be the last time for a while.
- acescence0
they're great, not cheap though.
- ukit0
I don't really care about the price as long as it is well managed and fast. If you're running a site that you're putting effort into it seems weird to expect to pay $5 for hosting;)
- acescence0
hey, i agree. as far as performance and reliability, i don't think you'd be disappointed.
it's important to note however that they don't do a lot of hand-holding there. there is no control panel, no software. you have your choice of OS with root ssh access, and that's it, you're on your own.
- ukit0
Yeah I sort of got that impression...do you think there's much noticeable difference in performance with the tiers with more RAM?
- acescence0
depends on what you're running. at a certain point it certainly is, but if you're doing fairly simple dynamic sites with apache, php, mysql you'll probably not need more than the base configuration
- jpea0
I'd recommend them, or http://wiredtree.com
I switched from a colocated machine with a different host to a VPS with wiredtree last year, but still have an external DNS server at Linode. Never had a prob with either.
- ukit0
OK thanks...one more question, which OS did you install on your accounts? Any real difference there if you are just running a typical site?
- ukit0
I'm OK with SSH since it looks like they give pretty detailed instructions, but I have no idea what the difference between Ubuntu and Debian is or why I would choose one over the other.
- acescence0
the one i used had centos, i didn't choose that though. there are definitely differences in how things are setup and configured, but if you're not used to a particular distribution, i'm not sure what's the simplest to deal with. i might guess that slackware is the most difficult. ubuntu community is very desktop-centric, no? debian is pleasant enough.
- armsbottomer0
i prefer slicehost.com. they have killer documentation and support.