Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?

["\"Kyrre Nygård\"" <kyrreny@broadpark.no>]

hehe

i guess everything that glitter ain't gold...

i'm down to two choices -- mediatemple.net and m5hosting.com... maybe joyent.com

damn, it's so hard to make a choice...

kyrre

----- Original Message -----
From: Gilles Chehade <gilles@poolp.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:57 am
Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc: Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no>, rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com, misc@openbsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, git@vger.kernel.org

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to "Kyrre Nygerd" <kyrreny@broadpark.no>:
> > 
> > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask.
> > >
> > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it 
> with the downtime.
> > >
> > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git 
> projects, an IRC
> > server as well as an internet radio channel.
> > >
> > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. 
> None of that
> > cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple 
> text files the
> > way it's meant to be done.
> > >
> > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com?
> > 
> > pair.com ?
> > 
> 
> If asked a couple weeks ago I would have suggested layeredtech, 
> but I'd tend
> to discourage it now as I ran into a succession of issues that 
> they took too
> many time to fix (ip addresses not routed to my box, almost 72h 
> of downtime)
> 
> Actually, if you aren't running a very critical service that you 
> rely on, it
> is a pretty good service. It's just that when they fuck up, they 
> fuck up big
> time :)
> 
> Gilles
> 
> -- 
> Gilles Chehade
>