From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gilles Chehade Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20080324203552.GA11478@poolp.org> References: <20080324144446.8ef2ce92.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Kyrre Nyg?rd , rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com, misc@openbsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Moran X-From: owner-misc+M67856@openbsd.org Mon Mar 24 21:46:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: goom-misc@gmane.org Received: from lists.openbsd.org ([192.43.244.163] helo=shear.ucar.edu) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdtYZ-0007Dw-Ob for goom-misc@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:46:12 +0100 Received: from openbsd.org (localhost.ucar.edu [127.0.0.1]) by shear.ucar.edu (8.14.1/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2OKddkZ004805; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:39:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from poolp.org (root@evilkittens.org [72.232.81.178]) by shear.ucar.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2OKYWZj031344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:34:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from poolp.org (gilles@localhost.layeredtech.com [127.0.0.1]) by poolp.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2OKZrJN014089 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from gilles@localhost) by poolp.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2OKZqWn002848; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:52 -0500 (CDT) Mail-Followup-To: Gilles Chehade , Bill Moran , Kyrre Nyg?rd , rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com, misc@openbsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080324144446.8ef2ce92.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Operating-System: OpenBSD poolp.org 4.2 GENERIC User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Loop: misc@openbsd.org Precedence: list Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Kyrre Nygerd" : > > > 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