Looking for a good dedicated server host.

[leglez]

Hi I am in the search of a good dedicated server host. At the company I work for we are working on a new website that will host the commercials we have made. We are planning on only uploading 10 to start with but then by the end of the year we hope to be uploading 5 a week. So we are looking for a good dedicated server host. I owned a dedicated server last year so I kinda know how they work but I only used my to hold a couple bittorrent files for me for a month. We are looking to spend ~$100-$200/month. Needs to have good speeds, I believed maintained (i am not too sure about the dedicated server lingo anymore so I am not sure if thats what I mean or not).

Thanks for any help.

 

[George P Burdell]

Names like Rackspace, Layered Tech and The Planet come to mind, but dedicated hosts are a dime a dozen. Your best bet would be to be to do some research at WebHostingTalk to find a host suited to your needs.

You may also consider hosting your website on a smaller server while hosting your commercials (which I assume are videos) at Amazon S3.

 

[manlymatt83]

YGPM

 

[leglez]

Thanks to both of you! I really love the idea of Amazon S3. I have never seen it or heard of it before and it looks like what I need. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Rackspace is overpriced but they are good. I should check out softlayer.com.

If Amazon's S3 works that would be even better.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: leglez
Thanks to both of you! I really love the idea of Amazon S3. I have never seen it or heard of it before and it looks like what I need. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Two lesser known features of S3:

1. You can point a (sub)domain at it, so anyone looking at your HTML would only see http://media.domain.com/file.flv, not http://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/file.flv. Your users will never know your files are on S3.

2. If you have a file on S3 with this public URL:
http://media.domain.com/file.flv

You can distribute a torrent to the public simply by providing them this link:
http://media.domain.com/file.flv?torrent

 

[Blieb]

Man every time I turn around I see that Amazon offers some service I never woulda thunk ...

 

[dartworth]

Amazon's S3 has been having problems as of late...a simple Google search will show this. I believe they have been straightened out, but it might be something you should look into.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Amazon's S3 has been having problems as of late...a simple Google search will show this. I believe they have been straightened out, but it might be something you should look into.

Agreed but sh!t happens. The same could be said for a router in a DC's location.
I recall the Planet had an outage a couple of years ago. Racks of servers were out of service.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi

Originally posted by: dartworth
Amazon's S3 has been having problems as of late...a simple Google search will show this. I believe they have been straightened out, but it might be something you should look into.

Agreed but sh!t happens. The same could be said for a router in a DC's location.
I recall the Planet had an outage a couple of years ago. Racks of servers were out of service.

They had one recently where a fire brought down 9000 servers.