Unfortunately all good things must come to an end, my very reliable hosting company just went south, Xeran. Seems they may have been taken over by another company, I assume. As most know, it is very painful on changing to a whole new platform with like 12 big websites under a reseller account. They caused me much pain, corrupted data on move, all emails changed formats, paths to perl/sendmail all changed, not fun anymore. My wish list:
cgi-bin perl required
mysql required
near unlimited email accounts required
reseller format would be great
SSL and SSI (server sided includes)
Price is not a factor since this is for some pretty robust websites. I need not to be put under a reseller, need the top gun.
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www.servermatrix.com (cheap managed dedicated servers from ThePlanet.com DataCenter)
www.rackspace.com (you better have a good size budget for them -- but many large networks use them because of their stability and support)
www.ev1servers.net (formerly rackshack.net)
www.dedicatednow.com (dont know if they are open again yet)
www.nocster.com / www.burst.net
these are all dedicated server companies and should meet your requirements.
hope that helps,
-kohashi
As I see it, you have two main choices - you can work with a dedicated or colocated server, or you can get a powerful hosting reseller account - there are advantages and disadvantages to both.
A dedicated server solution is similar to a co-located solution where a server sits on another person's network, but for a dedicated server (sometimes known as a managed server), the server hardware is leased to you, and 100% maintained by the data center. Coloction will provide you with similar features - see the notes at the end.
A dedicated server will give you:
* Security. Dedicated servers are most often located in a locked down facility (your cost: uncertain!) that specializes only in dedicated servers, and that is monitored 24/7/365 (your cost: sleep, or the cost of employees). Most likely, only server farm administrators are allowed in the area that houses your server. The server farm will have hardware and software firewalls in place (your cost: > $300), and will monitor against hackers and other drains of unusual bandwidth (your cost: once again, sleep!)
* Reliability. The server farm places each server on a UPS (your cost: $200 - $1000 and up, depending upon the number and quality), may be located on multiple power grids (! I have no idea of the cost!) and often has an emergency power generator in case of power outages (I would expect this to cost $1000 and up, depending upon the size of the generator).
*Bandwidth and Redundancy. The server farm is located with high speed direct connections (usually T1, DC3, OC3, etc.) to multiple backbones on the Internet - if one of the main routers at Sprintlink.com goes down, your service is rerouted transparently. (Your cost: it varies, although smaller ISPs that I've talked to that only have 2 or 3 links report monthly costs of > $10,000).
* Fully outsourced hardware support. The hardware and network are monitored and maintained by server farm staff (your cost: cost of initial server hardware, support and maintenance contract, plus hourly rates to get things replaced and/or fixed)
* Scalability. The server is easily upgraded to meet increased usage needs, from both a software and a hardware point of view. Components often cost less to add (as the server farm will buy in bulk) than it will to add to your own server, not to mention the hours of labor incurred.
If you bought and co-located your own server, you'll still have a rental fee (often similar in price to the dedicated server lease costs). You also lose the outsourced hardware support advantage, and sometimes there are actually tax advantages to leasing over owning. Generally, the cost of buying a large pipe to your facility usually cannot be justified, until you are running a facility with a good sized support staff.
You haven't mentioned how sharp your system administration skills are. The responsibility of having your own server means that you need to keep up on all the latest security patches, and understand fully what you have opened to the internet. Depending upon your skill set, you might be better off securing good shared hosting that allows you to resell accounts, and leave the security issues to the sys admins at the facility.
Kohashi gave you a good start on a list of dedicated servers - due to the amount of spam that I've received from ev1.com servers in the past, I'd personally avoid ev1servers.net (aka RackShack). I've had personal experience with rackspace.com - their tag line is 'fanatical service' and they've lived up to it. I've also worked with dedicatedserver.com (was digitalNATION but is now part of Verio) - great servers, not inexpensive, though.
For shared hosting/reseller accounts, I've been hearing a lot of good things about HostM - http://www.hostm.com (no affilliation) - their servers appear to be fast, and the cost seems extremely good - I have to assume that it's just an introductory pricing.
Personally i would go with hasweb: http://www.hasweb.com. They are an under-company of host dime. They have similar plans but are wayy cheeper. the virtual server plan they have might just fit your bill (unlimited email/mysql/etc. and a lot of bandwith and space)
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