Hi folks!

Hope I´m right here in this board. If not - please forgive me, I´m new here..

We are a webhosting-company located in spain, serving customers worldwide. Due to high demand from our customers asking for hosting in US we are looking for a company that can offer us dedicated servers without management, but with hardware-replacement and a raliable backup solution.

Our budget depends on what we get for, but we´ve not found a host that could give us what we need.

2 - 3 servers per month
Intel PIV 2,8 and up
1024 - 2048 MB Ram
160 GB HDD
Legal adult-hosting should be allowed

Backup should be run automatically once a day, restores should be possible by using a webfrontend.

We will use our own administration panel Tuxtools, so there is no need for cpanel etc.

Can you give me some hints what choices we have?

Thanks a lot!

Well you should perhaps look into building your own in a case.. http://plinkusa.net/ and looking for a colocation option.

What if you need physical access to run fsck, etc. or even a power reboot option. Some do offer "hands on" for free, but make sure its clear on your requirements/expectations if you do decide to go with a dedicated box.

Look here for "deals"..

http://webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36

then search for feedback for each of interest.

http://webhostingtalk.com/search.php

Then email them with your requirement questions, and you should be fine.

Good Luck in your search; and welcome to WHT.

lunarpages.com has daily backups

2 - 3 servers per month


Thats a pretty serious requirement and obviously indicates consistant growth. However, a reliable and efficient backup solution for this sort of requirement is really almost a separate solution altogether. You should really look at renting or colocating your own NAS (certainly 1 TB to start and scalable to accomodate growth). Im sure alot of dedicated providers already have a large storage array configured, but, do you really want to be in a shared environment for something like this?

We use netvault as our backup/restore utility. Highly configurable and nice point and click functionality on restores from a web facing panel. You should definately take a look at this solution and ask any of your prospective hosts to configure something like this on your servers as you grow.

Hi!

First of all: thanks a lot for your answers!

We manage several racks full with servers that are located in germany here from spain, thanks to a hosting partner in germany. What we are looking for exactly is a company that can give us the same service level than we have it in germany.

This includes hardware replacement within 4 hours, 365/24/7 and a tape robot backup solution which is very stable. We do not believe that we will only host 5 or 10 servers in the US, so we are thinking in a bigger dimension than we could easily handle with NAS or something like that. Besides I´m not a fan of NAS for backups, I prefer the old tapes ;)

I already looked through the "Deals" board and found some interesting comapanies, so I´ll write some inquiries the next days.

Lunarpages seems to be interesting except from the managed services. Btut I´m pretty sure that we´ll find a way to restrain them to administrate our systems..

Once again, thank you very much. Seems that the webhosting community in the US is much kindlier than in germany.. :)