Webhost Needed (Rossman - HELP!)

[Rip the Jacker]

I've been with KnownHost (VPS service) for a bout a year or so. Never really had any problems, but it's just that I don't think I'm using as much resources as I thought I'd be (500 GB bandwidth, diskspace, etc). I'm looking for a very reputable host that's been around for awhile, need something like 100+ GB of bandwidth per month, 2 gigs of space or more is fine, would love PHP5 (I'm fine with MySQL4.1).

I can't live without AWStats. I've used cPanel for 4-5 years, and have heard of DirectAdmin but if it doesn't have AWStats and a nice interface then I'm not interested.

I'd like to spend somewhere between $15 and $35 per month, my current plan is $45 a month.
I'd prefer if it was a VPS, but if its a killer deal on shared hosting then thats fine too.

 

[cpals]

I've been using the Servint $49/month VPS for a few years. Been rock solid.

http://servint.net/vps/

 

[HyTekJosh]

YGPM.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

I'm sure it is, except I'm looking for something in the 15-35 price range.

 

[pstylesss]

RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

 

[George P Burdell]

Expensive but reliable:
http://www.asmallorange.com/services/vps/

Cheaper:
http://www.dreamhostps.com/

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I might be able to give you a VERY good deal to take over my SLHost.com VPS level 1 for $22.50 per month.

Otherwise look here but the trick is avoiding the crappy web hosts which will be out of business by years end.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I might be able to give you a VERY good deal to take over my SLHost.com VPS level 1 for $22.50 per month.

Otherwise look here but the trick is avoiding the crappy web hosts which will be out of business by years end.

Interested.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I might be able to give you a VERY good deal to take over my SLHost.com VPS level 1 for $22.50 per month.

Otherwise look here but the trick is avoiding the crappy web hosts which will be out of business by years end.

Interested.

YGPM

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

Those seem to be rather low on memory, especially if you plan on running a database as well. You may need to use something like Berkeley DB on those.

Do they come with swap drive?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Argo

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
RossMAN pointed me toward Zone.net and they have been great. Excellent response times, great support. I recommend you give them a look. AND they are in your price range

Those seem to be rather low on memory, especially if you plan on running a database as well. You may need to use something like Berkeley DB on those.

Do they come with swap drive?

ZeroIQ has their higher end VM200 which offers a lot more RAM and is fully managed.

and I gave him a 15% off coupon as well

 

[mugs]

With a VPS you could install awstats yourself regardless of whether the host has it installed for you already.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: mugs
With a VPS you could install awstats yourself regardless of whether the host has it installed for you already.

D'oh. Yeah.. but prepackaged cPanel + AwStats is nice (no installation issues to the linux novice)

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mugs
With a VPS you could install awstats yourself regardless of whether the host has it installed for you already.

That's what I love about VPS, you get root access and can install anything you want.

 

[RossMAN]

nm

 

[antyler]

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
I've been with KnownHost (VPS service) for a bout a year or so. Never really had any problems, but it's just that I don't think I'm using as much resources as I thought I'd be (500 GB bandwidth, diskspace, etc). I'm looking for a very reputable host that's been around for awhile, need something like 100+ GB of bandwidth per month, 2 gigs of space or more is fine, would love PHP5 (I'm fine with MySQL4.1).

I can't live without AWStats. I've used cPanel for 4-5 years, and have heard of DirectAdmin but if it doesn't have AWStats and a nice interface then I'm not interested.

I'd like to spend somewhere between $15 and $35 per month, my current plan is $45 a month.
I'd prefer if it was a VPS, but if its a killer deal on shared hosting then thats fine too.

i dont want to sound . . .stupid or ignorant, but what exactly does one use a virtual server such as zone.net for?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: antyler

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
I've been with KnownHost (VPS service) for a bout a year or so. Never really had any problems, but it's just that I don't think I'm using as much resources as I thought I'd be (500 GB bandwidth, diskspace, etc). I'm looking for a very reputable host that's been around for awhile, need something like 100+ GB of bandwidth per month, 2 gigs of space or more is fine, would love PHP5 (I'm fine with MySQL4.1).

I can't live without AWStats. I've used cPanel for 4-5 years, and have heard of DirectAdmin but if it doesn't have AWStats and a nice interface then I'm not interested.

I'd like to spend somewhere between $15 and $35 per month, my current plan is $45 a month.
I'd prefer if it was a VPS, but if its a killer deal on shared hosting then thats fine too.

i dont want to sound . . .stupid or ignorant, but what exactly does one use a virtual server such as zone.net for?

Think of a VPS as a mini dedicated server which is fully managed and more powerful than your average web hosting account.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/...Virtual_Private_Server

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: antyler

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
I've been with KnownHost (VPS service) for a bout a year or so. Never really had any problems, but it's just that I don't think I'm using as much resources as I thought I'd be (500 GB bandwidth, diskspace, etc). I'm looking for a very reputable host that's been around for awhile, need something like 100+ GB of bandwidth per month, 2 gigs of space or more is fine, would love PHP5 (I'm fine with MySQL4.1).

I can't live without AWStats. I've used cPanel for 4-5 years, and have heard of DirectAdmin but if it doesn't have AWStats and a nice interface then I'm not interested.

I'd like to spend somewhere between $15 and $35 per month, my current plan is $45 a month.
I'd prefer if it was a VPS, but if its a killer deal on shared hosting then thats fine too.

i dont want to sound . . .stupid or ignorant, but what exactly does one use a virtual server such as zone.net for?

A small business website. With a shared host, you're sharing system resources with hundreds of other domains, and if a few of them are getting hit pretty hard it'll make the server unbearably slow for everyone else. On a VPS you're still sharing system resources, but you have a guaranteed minimum. So if at some point in time someone is not using their full allocation of memory or CPU time and you could benefit from it, the server will let your VPS use those resources. But even if every other account on the system is being hit hard, you still get your guaranteed minimum resources so your virtual server won't grind to a halt.

It's a happy medium between shared host and dedicated server for companies that don't need a full dedicated server.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: antyler

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
I've been with KnownHost (VPS service) for a bout a year or so. Never really had any problems, but it's just that I don't think I'm using as much resources as I thought I'd be (500 GB bandwidth, diskspace, etc). I'm looking for a very reputable host that's been around for awhile, need something like 100+ GB of bandwidth per month, 2 gigs of space or more is fine, would love PHP5 (I'm fine with MySQL4.1).

I can't live without AWStats. I've used cPanel for 4-5 years, and have heard of DirectAdmin but if it doesn't have AWStats and a nice interface then I'm not interested.

I'd like to spend somewhere between $15 and $35 per month, my current plan is $45 a month.
I'd prefer if it was a VPS, but if its a killer deal on shared hosting then thats fine too.

i dont want to sound . . .stupid or ignorant, but what exactly does one use a virtual server such as zone.net for?

A small business website. With a shared host, you're sharing system resources with hundreds of other domains, and if a few of them are getting hit pretty hard it'll make the server unbearably slow for everyone else. On a VPS you're still sharing system resources, but you have a guaranteed minimum. So if at some point in time someone is not using their full allocation of memory or CPU time and you could benefit from it, the server will let your VPS use those resources. But even if every other account on the system is being hit hard, you still get your guaranteed minimum resources so your virtual server won't grind to a halt.

It's a happy medium between shared host and dedicated server for companies that don't need a full dedicated server.

To add on to that. Its like taking your personal computer, and putting virtual machines on it. Making it so you have 3 or 4 windows installations on it. Virtualization put many many computers on one computer... get what I'm saying?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

To add on to that. Its like taking your personal computer, and putting virtual machines on it. Making it so you have 3 or 4 windows installations on it. Virtualization put many many computers on one computer... get what I'm saying?

Right, yeah I overlooked that part. In terms of web hosting this means you can have root access (as RossMan mentioned) and can install and configure any software however you want. This is a big factor for me.

 

[antyler]

Oh i think i understand somewhat. So its just like a server being hosted online pretty much?

 

[antyler]

Is it for a company or small business so that employees can all have their own files and email and such, but it is hosted online?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: antyler
Is it for a company or small business so that employees can all have their own files and email and such, but it is hosted online?

A VPS is only a type of web hosting account.

You can use it for personal, business or online storage.

It's really not that complicated. It's web hosting, you can do anything you want with it.

 

[RossMAN]

My PowerVPS Linux VPS has been successfully transferred to the OP :thumbsup:

He's really lucky since the 50% off coupon will be honored as well :thumbsup:

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: antyler
Is it for a company or small business so that employees can all have their own files and email and such, but it is hosted online?

Shared hosting (what you normally get) just gives you a web interface to some web server that is preconfigured by some company.

A virtual server gives you complete access to the entire virtual computer. You can install whatever you want on it. You have the same amount of control as if you had the server sitting in your own office.