Is there any way to start a thread that would be a sticky and it would have info about some of the top recommended dedicated hosts out there? i am just looking for a good host as I am with AIT right now and i am sick of them. Yesturday they took 9 hours to simply reboot my server. I see 15minuteservers has a web interface reboot which would be nice, but can anyone comment on a few good hosts? I personally am looking for <$70/month but dont limit the recommendations to that for the sake of others.

*edit* oh and windows 2003 for that price if possible.

Windows 2003 for less than 70$?.
You might find some. But don't count on great support for that price...
Check out www.tomsyer.net
Cheapest is 58$/month i think. (Without Win2k3. A bit more then.)

You can go with managed.com, but you can count, what its unsupported service. You have to write 4 letters and after last wait 12 hours. Then... you'll get reply(with half question answered)
Or chose Tom... Its a bit better
:)

You might look at fdcservers.net they have some older discounted servers.

Could anyone tell me, where is the catch?
AMD 1400 (actual speed 1Ghz) + 512MB RAM + 40GB HDD
REDHAT, Windows 2003, FREEBSD FREE $99 8 hours 5Mbit Unmetered
connection


5Mbps only for 99$?

I worry that FDC is like AIT for some reason. to be honest i havent had the worst time with AIT but since its been needing reboots for some odd reason, it just scares me to think what might happen if it does die, how will i get my data and all that. (I do remote backups now just to be safe) I wish i made the money to get a good server but i'm going to ahve to settle for now, thanks for the heads up guys.

You might want to get a quote from turnkeyresellers.com since they are getting some pretty good reviews from their users. bliksemhosting.com is not too shabby either... :D

Originally posted by cybertron
I worry that FDC is like AIT for some reason. to be honest i havent had the worst time with AIT but since its been needing reboots for some odd reason, it just scares me to think what might happen if it does die, how will i get my data and all that. (I do remote backups now just to be safe) I wish i made the money to get a good server but i'm going to ahve to settle for now, thanks for the heads up guys.

be very careful when leaving AIT they'll continue to charge you and you should review your contract carefully there is probably a penalty for leaving see http://www.aitsucks.com/

Originally posted by wiresix-Ryan
be very careful when leaving AIT they'll continue to charge you and you should review your contract carefully there is probably a penalty for leaving see http://www.aitsucks.com/

Now THAT'S an exit strategy... charge them when they come in, charge them when they go out!

Sirius

http://www.layeredtech.com

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512MB DDR RAM
80GB ATA Hard Drive
10Mbps NIC Uplink
Windows 2003 Server Standard

$88/month + $19.00 setup

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