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From: jasee on 22 Apr 2008 06:32 Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100, Geoff Cox wrote: > >> 1.8 GHz Celeron >> 512 MB RAM >> 40 GB disk > > Massive web site that needs a 40GB disc including the OS. B-) > > The figure that is most important is how much data/month on what sized > pipe (in real terms) they offer with that. It's no good haveing a > cheap server behind a small pipe with a low data throughput. > > The information available from http://www.webperf.net Strange that Demon (or Thus) seems to be missing from the list?
From: Geoff Cox on 22 Apr 2008 07:37 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:20:07 +0100, Nick Kew <nick(a)grimnir.webthing.com> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100 >Geoff Cox <gcox(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: > >> This is a relatively low price (? )but what do you think of the server >> spec? > >The expensive bit is the data transfer. What you get for that >price will produce a negligible load on that hardware. >Unless you have something you're not telling us about >also running! nothing secret here! some audio files but total size of these 15MB. Cheers Geoff
From: Geoff Cox on 22 Apr 2008 07:37 On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:50:56 -0700 (PDT), Ian <ian.groups(a)btinternet.com> wrote: >On 22 Apr, 07:37, Geoff Cox <g...(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: > >> Any better alternatives in the UK? > >uk2.net will do you Pentium Dual Core 2GHz/1GB/80GB/10TB per month for >�59/month. CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian. > >http://www.uk2.net/servers/ > >Ian thanks Ian - will follow up on that. Cheers Geoff
From: Geoff Cox on 22 Apr 2008 07:38 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:19:45 GMT, Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote: >http://csoft.net offer shared FreeBSD hosting, with apache etc, and shell >access via ssh. No bandwidth limit and quite a bit of hard drive space. >Month by month contracts. > >They seem to be reliable and tech support is generally very responsive >and helpful. > >They're in Canada though. any downside to that? I would have thought not? Cheers Geoff
From: Geoff Cox on 22 Apr 2008 07:39
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:44:44 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" <allsortsnotthisbit(a)howhill.com> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100, Geoff Cox wrote: > >> 1.8 GHz Celeron >> 512 MB RAM >> 40 GB disk > >Massive web site that needs a 40GB disc including the OS. B-) > >The figure that is most important is how much data/month on what sized >pipe (in real terms) they offer with that. It's no good haveing a cheap >server behind a small pipe with a low data throughput. > >The information available from http://www.webperf.net and >http://uptime.netcraft.com/ can be enlightening. Have some salt handy, >just like any information from the 'net. I'll follow up your 2 links. Thanks Geoff |