Currently on AIT virtual hosting, ready to move to dedicated hosting. Small (35 domains, 300 MB of space needed!) but am very concerned about choosing a hosting company with an impeccible reputation.

There is no "BEST" hosting company. There are only good ones and bad ones. Click on "SEARCH" at the top this page.

I'd have to say Rackspace.com. They are expensive, but you get what you pay for. Again you might want to use the SEARCH function to do searches on companies such as:

RackSpace.com
VenturesOnline.com
Dialtone.net

Good luck :)

Rackspace.com gets my vote :)

best can be determined by too many things to pick an actual "best."

some are better than others, some are cheaper than others, some have great bandwidth, some have great support and others dont.

you really just have to do some searching and try to form an opinion in between the flames about each company.

Everyone always says rackspace.com but I'm beginning to wonder what percentage of them have actually used rackspace. :eek:

In my opnion I think pwebtech.com and fastservers.net are two excellent dedicated server providers.

But then again everyone has their different opinions so really, there is no such thing as "the best dedicated server provider."

Originally posted by citrus
Everyone always says rackspace.com but I'm beginning to wonder what percentage of them have actually used rackspace. :eek:


the rich ones..

I recently used RackSpace - the service was excellent, the system was great (aside from one hardware failure, which I can't really blame them for...), and their connections were excellent.

Unfortunately, we moved away from them after 6 months due to financial reasons...

Darryl

I was very happy at Dialtone when I was there, reasonably priced for goodish support. The only problems I ever had was with monitoring.

I also wouldn't recommend RackSpace, they accidentally wiped out someone I know's primary drive costing him and his members about a week of updates... they were also pretty unwilling to be fair and work with him when his server with them was acting up.

If you want a cheapo host, I've been with Nocster for about a month without major problem. Very nice.

Are there ANY trouble-free dedicated hosts?

This is just an FYI - do not shoot the messenger.

There are quite a few posts scattered throughout WHT suggesting that rackspace is the "best". While I can't say one way or the other whether this is true or not, I can say with absolute certainty that large blocks of rackspace IPs have been blackholed by SPEWS and others due to their alleged longstanding and ongoing relationship(s) with spammers. There are literally thousands of archived rackspace-originated spams archived by Google in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings alone.

More here:
google archive of rackspace-originated spam from news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&q=rackspace+spam+group%3Anews.admin.net-abuse.sightings&btnG=Google+Search)

And here:
google archived discussions of rackspace-originated spam from news.admin.net-abuse.email (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&q=rackspace+spam+group%3Anews.admin.net-abuse.email&btnG=Google+Search)


I'm not suggesting anyone not use them, but any potential customers of theirs should determine whether or not the SPEWS listings will impact them, as it can have a devastating effect on connectivity.

-Bob

Originally posted by RandyL712
Are there ANY trouble-free dedicated hosts?

What exactly do you mean by "trouble free?"

Do you mean managed? :confused:

Interesting that you mention the spam issue...now that you mention it, there was one incident where we sent out an automated email (post-signup welcome email with the user's password), and it was blocked by the University of Waterloo's spam filter...I was able to have our IP unblocked, and I didn't run into any other incidents - but it could definitely be an issue.

Darryl

Originally posted by TMX
This is just an FYI - do not shoot the messenger.

There are quite a few posts scattered throughout WHT suggesting that rackspace is the "best". While I can't say one way or the other whether this is true or not, I can say with absolute certainty that large blocks of rackspace IPs have been blackholed by SPEWS and others due to their alleged longstanding and ongoing relationship(s) with spammers.

A lot of people consider RackSpace more or less spam friendly. I know I personally have sent in a lot of complaints -- ones I KNOW they received mutliple other complaints about -- and many still remain live. Actually, this is the reason I chose Dialtone over RackSpace when moving over a year ago... I don't want to be on a spammy host.

well AIT is a spammy host. Lots of email bounces back.

Originally posted by RandyL712
Small (35 domains, 300 MB of space needed!) but am very concerned about choosing a hosting company with an impeccible reputation.

An "impeccible reputation" is hard to come by these days, and spending large amounts of money on a dedicated box guarantees nothing, unfortunately.

I would suggest spending some time searching WHT, Sitepoint, Google groups, etc... and try to put together a realistic picture of the pros and cons of each company you are considering - the trime spent will be well worth it.

My personal pick: For sheer bang-for-the-buck, webreseller.net, who I've been with for four months, is hard to beat. They have outstanding support, a reliable network, quality machines, and decent people running the show - as well as very competitive pricing on managed dedicated boxes.

They did have some problems last week (7/14/2002) during a move to an upgraded datacenter, but it's my opinion - based on prior experience with other providers - that these problems were quite minor in comparison to what they could have been (especially considering the amount of work that must be ionvolved in actually moving an entire datacenter), and I personally consider it to be a very small bump in an otherwise very good record.

Good luck :)

-Bob

I'd vote for webreseller.net

We've never had a problem with them, and support is great.

You can't go wrong with Rackspace.com if price isn't a factor. And yes I'm speaking from experience :)

while i do agree with some of you here some of the problems they've received with some of the big managed hosting providers, i believe these are isolated incidents. let's face it, everybody makes mistakes. in my opinion, i think the majority of users from these big companies are happy. just my 0.01 cents...

Originally posted by GeorgeC
You can't go wrong with Rackspace.com if price isn't a factor. And yes I'm speaking from experience :)

:agree:

rackspace.com is the best.

My Vote goes to Rackspace.com
I have used them extensively , had linux as well as windows servers there. Service , support , network too good.

So far not found a host as good as them

Regards,

Originally posted by Darryl
I recently used RackSpace - the service was excellent, the system was great (aside from one hardware failure, which I can't really blame them for...), and their connections were excellent.

Unfortunately, we moved away from them after 6 months due to financial reasons...

Darryl
The last time I checked rackspace, their pricing went from $250 to $800+. There's nothing in the middle. Strange pricing. :eek:

The best dedicated host is... ME! :D Bwahahahaha!

I vote 4webspace.com

LOL RackSpace

1gig Intel Unix rig with 30gig transfer $1369.00 a month :eek:

My god it better be able to burp my kid, clean my pisser and wash the car for that price .....

but the smallest one starts at 250$ maybe you just didn't see that one :)

Originally posted by BiGWill
but the smallest one starts at 250$ maybe you just didn't see that one :)

Oh I saw it,
what was it a 800mhz duron with 64mb ram :D

At $1369.00 a month and only 30gig transfer, You would need to charge your clients $200 a month just to break even. :eek:

LOL your plans would look something like this
P-1 50mb Diskspace, 1gig transfer $79.99
P-2 100mb space , 3gig transfer $99.99
p-3 300mb space, 10gig Transfer $249.99

hehe take package one, you would need to sale 30 of them to make a good profit, And with that price not likely.....

Yeah.. nocster and dv2 is on my mind now... hmm..

MY 0.2c cents steer clear of Webresller worst customer care I have ever seen.

My vote eservers.biz or tranxactglobal.com they are in the DV2 data center and very good support great uptime.