THATS THEIR SLOGAN - THAT SHIT JUST WORKS — WELL LET ME TELL YOU IT SURELY DOESNT!!!

I AM SO FED UP WITH CALLING FOR MY 50 TICKETS A DAY NOT TO MENTION THAT THEY ARE SO CLOGGED WITH A BACKLOG OF TICKETS THAT I FIND THAT THEY ARE PURPOSELY MIS-DOCUMENTING MY TICKETS SO THAT THEY GET PUSHED AROUND AND NOTHING DONE!!

THESE MOTHER FU&&E&R&S SHOULD ROT - ESP DANIEL AND DAMIAN WHO NEED TO BE FIRED AND REPLACED BY A $2/hr OFF SHORE CUST SERV REP WHO HAS 50X MORE BRAIN CELLS

I think a lot of the hosters out there prey on people’s egos. You pay $20+ a month for all this storage and bandwidth that is never actually going to be used (and if it was used, they’d probably kick you off). With NFS, I had a couple of test sites going where $5 lasted a couple of years. Now that I have some wikis and other stuff up for the public now, it’s still cheaper than a monthly plan would be. And if something did get dugg or /.ed, I could buy a bigger “bucket” of bandwidth at a cheaper than normal rate to hold the tide over..

Plus it has a nice community in the forums and not much downtime that I’ve seen. But not as good a deal if you’re constantly using a lot of bandwidth since it’d start to add up. They do have bugmenot.com on there, but that may be due more to them willing to support a bit of a grey-area site.

I feel as though i have just been broken up with, and my friends are telling me “don’t worry - there are other fish in the sea.” but instead of fish they are talking about servers ;)

Colocation is nice, but dealing with the inevitable hardware failure gets iffy. Plus, these days there are plenty of reputable companies that will give you a very stable dedicated server(s) that will give you similar flexibility levels. There is no need to pay Rackspace level pricing unless you NEED a lot of hand holding when it comes to the admin side of things. Go with a quality unmanaged server where they are responsible for hardware, os reinstalls, network, etc (and dont lose sleep over a power supply failing). Companies I’d suggest for this would include Voxel.net, Softlayer and ServerBeach. There are more out there but these are three that Ive got a lot of experience with firsthand at a lot of different consulting gigs.

S3 and EC2 also look pretty interesting, but have also had a lot recent availability issues. The trend is definitely moving towards these sort of ‘on demand’ hosting services, but the first generation has made me advise all my clients to stick to reputable dedicated (or even ‘dedicated virtualized’) infrastructure — at least for another year or two till things get really solid out there.

My 2.1c,

-EdH

The other week mysql was down for 3 days. I have ran many mysql servers and some of them really big - and i have never had one down for 3 days. Especially when you have rackspace as your partner. Of course, we don’t know all the details - but still 3 days!