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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Rob Moore <RMoore@afsc.org> wrote: > > We are doing some shopping around for off-site web server (Linux-based) > hosting in the Philadelphia area. I am wondering if anyone out there in > PLUG-land has any recommendations? Places to consider or places to avoid? We > need someplace that is “world class” (i.e., reliable backup, lots of > bandwidth, high SLA, etc.) yet still affordable. > Is it necessary to be in the Philadelphia area? (see my console comment below) I'm not clear what your requirements are, but for anything smaller than several boxes, I'd recommend a Linode, which sells VPSes: http://www.linode.com/ Some of the positives are: - You can get to a console via AJAX or SSH - They can (and have) seamlessly migrated running VPSes between separate host machines when the host machines developed issues - You get root and your choice of distro - Pretty good uptime. I've been a customer for a couple of years and have only had one multi-hour outage in that time period. Their smallest possible VPS is 20ドル/mo. As for backup, I'm of the belief that the best way to do it is to do it yourself. You could do nightly rsyncs to a place like rsync.net, or any other *NIX machine. (including say, the ones in your office) -- Doug http://twitter.com/dmuth ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug