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Just thought i'd share my experence with dedicated servers with you at my expense.
Firstly on my travels it was all about money. The cheaper the better for a business or is it? Well I came across the cheapest Windows Virtual Server on the internet vpsland.com thought wow this sounds good. Signed up $25 dollars later disappointed. Why? Support really ent 24/7 poor english in support emails. Server dies randomly? so much for 100% reliabilty. Scrap that a server needs to be on all the time and work properly. Further downside were...could not install latest windows updates because get what? Key was not valid and they replied to my support email with "it will break your server". Furthermore, VPN could not be setup and you could not mount ISO images.
GoDaddy Dedicated - WOW! GoDaddy that looks cheap $123 dollars for a dedicated server. Read the sales pitch sounded good, "Complete Control", "Do Anything" wow jolly good need to get this £61 ($123)*and 24hrs later again no good. All ports wide open SQL Server completley facing the internet which I dont like as far as im concerned SQL Server should be accessed by VPN only when used remotley down the internet. But the big one...you cant install e-mail services to the server. Why not? Oh thats because port 25 blocked (all others opened just about). To use email you must puchase there email service which uses there own mail server. They charge you for the emails you send out and you can bring them to your server. So not happy there. Emailed asking them to cancel my account and give me a refund but no reply. The last support email i sent i got an email 19 hours later?! So GoDaddy I would not recommend.
My final quest...Keep it UK!!! I decided rather then take advantage of the pound been so strong against the dollar i'll look further home and get a more expensive UK services now my choices where
Fasthosts
Rackspace
123-Reg
1&1
After researching these servers I found 1&1 to be the best deal but was tempted just to use fasthosts. Rackspace support is top class but they quoted $350 a month for less of a server then 1&1 so that was out of budget.
Just signed up to 1&1 for a 24 month contract so thats been setup now so i'm hoping this is going to be the one for me paying a little more but seems to be worth it.
So anybody considering a VPS or dedicated server this may help you. Also i noticed lycos doing VPS's for £7 a month running linux which i thought was good value.
Anyway rant over,
Rob
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Just thought i'd share my experence with dedicated servers with you at my expense.
Firstly on my travels it was all about money. The cheaper the better for a business or is it? Well I came across the cheapest Windows Virtual Server on the internet vpsland.com thought wow this sounds good. Signed up $25 dollars later disappointed. Why? Support really ent 24/7 poor english in support emails. Server dies randomly? so much for 100% reliabilty. Scrap that a server needs to be on all the time and work properly. Further downside were...could not install latest windows updates because get what? Key was not valid and they replied to my support email with "it will break your server". Furthermore, VPN could not be setup and you could not mount ISO images.
GoDaddy Dedicated - WOW! GoDaddy that looks cheap $123 dollars for a dedicated server. Read the sales pitch sounded good, "Complete Control", "Do Anything" wow jolly good need to get this £61 ($123)*and 24hrs later again no good. All ports wide open SQL Server completley facing the internet which I dont like as far as im concerned SQL Server should be accessed by VPN only when used remotley down the internet. But the big one...you cant install e-mail services to the server. Why not? Oh thats because port 25 blocked (all others opened just about). To use email you must puchase there email service which uses there own mail server. They charge you for the emails you send out and you can bring them to your server. So not happy there. Emailed asking them to cancel my account and give me a refund but no reply. The last support email i sent i got an email 19 hours later?! So GoDaddy I would not recommend.
My final quest...Keep it UK!!! I decided rather then take advantage of the pound been so strong against the dollar i'll look further home and get a more expensive UK services now my choices where
Fasthosts
Rackspace
123-Reg
1&1
After researching these servers I found 1&1 to be the best deal but was tempted just to use fasthosts. Rackspace support is top class but they quoted $350 a month for less of a server then 1&1 so that was out of budget.
Just signed up to 1&1 for a 24 month contract so thats been setup now so i'm hoping this is going to be the one for me paying a little more but seems to be worth it.
So anybody considering a VPS or dedicated server this may help you. Also i noticed lycos doing VPS's for £7 a month running linux which i thought was good value.
Anyway rant over,
Rob
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