Hello,

I'm reading this forum from time-to-time the last three years.
I'm having three reseller packages the last five years and one dedicated for business needs. I'm not keeping all the eggs on the same basket..

I'm looking now for a semi-dedicated server, fully managed by the hosting company. I'm looking for semi-dedicated solution because:

- I'm running some eshops and small portals and need power, speed & reliability.
- I need the fastest possible response from a server and simple reseller packages are too crowded...
- Although experienced enough, I do not want to spend time supporting, patching & upgrading software. (That's why I do not want VPS or Dedicated)

My requirements are:

- At least 1GB Web Space (more than 2GB is not needed)
- At least 25GB traffic/month
- 99.9% GUARANTEED uptime (This I'm willing to pay good)
- 100% GUARANTEED support response within 1 hour
- Linux, php, MySQL environment
- I want to pay more than $20/month otherwise the hosting company is joking or not offering what I need..

Waiting your response with recommendations and experience.
Thanx

Any preference to location ?

I mainly prefer United States located datacenter.
From Europe, I prefer UK only.

I want also to add that I'm asking for SEMI-dedicated, because there is no need for fully-dedicated and of course cost.
I mentioned that I do not want to pay less than $20 but also not more than $50 per month.

Do you have any suggestions?

http://bliksemhosting.com/semided.html although your budget might be a little small for what your looking for.

Of course if you want an overloaded server then $20 will get you quite a bit.

As with allthings in life you get what you pay for.

True Quality hosting of any kind costs money.

Currently I'm spending for these sites $18/month and it's very decent.

I just want to upgrade my standards.
I'm having about 99% and I want to go to a true 99.9% and a bit faster response from the server. I'm willing to double the amount for this upgrade but not more.

To be honest, I visited your site and I really liked your enterprise shared hosting, but ~$75/month are too much..

Currently I'm spending for these sites $18/month and it's very decent.
if you are happy with your current provider, you should stay. If they dont have what you want by default, just ask. They can work out a custom plan for you. Moving to another host can bring risk

I'm having about 99%That's a rather low, I agree, but fact is most providers should be able to attain higher average uptimes.

Also, I don't remember seing semidedicated packages at $20. Most I've seen come with considerably more than 25Gb of data transfer, and obviously higher prices.

IMO you just need to find another, better reseller hosting provider.

- Although experienced enough, I do not want to spend time supporting, patching & upgrading software. (That's why I do not want VPS or Dedicated)



You can go with a managed VPS or Dedicated provider. Those who offer fully managed services (read what they provide, as there's no industry standard for "fully managed") should be able to take care of you and just allow you to focus on the business side of things.



My requirements are:

- At least 1GB Web Space (more than 2GB is not needed)
- At least 25GB traffic/month
- 99.9% GUARANTEED uptime (This I'm willing to pay good)
- 100% GUARANTEED support response within 1 hour
- Linux, php, MySQL environment
- I want to pay more than $20/month otherwise the hosting company is joking or not offering what I need..



That's pretty generic in terms of requirements. Any linux based webhost can offer that. As for the uptime and support, that should be a given.

As for the uptime and support, that should be a given.
I haven't heard of a dedicated server provider that guarantees the uptime on the hardware (network uptime SLA yes, but not hardware uptime).

There's always a few lemons, I'll admit to that. But if you use quality hardware, there's no reason to not be able to reach 99.9% uptime.