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08-28-2014, 10:41 PM #1New Member
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Need an affordable VPS for small businesses
I'll start by describing what I do so hopefully you'll have a better understanding. I provide several services; mainly web design for health care clinics, pharmacies and other health related businesses. An additional (highly requested) service is complete site administration.
The sites are simple code wise: just HTML/CSS with PHP here and there. No MySQL/databases involved.
Therefore I'm looking for a VPS that is much like VolumeDrive but better customer service and more stable. I setup everything from PuTTy. So here are my requirements
- CentOS 5.4 (it's what I'm used to)
- Full FTP, SSH access
- Unmanaged, no cPanel, Webmin! I highly dislike these
- Prompt customer service
- The IP(s) provided must not be blacklisted (or sent into a Junk folder) by GMail, Yahoo or any of the other big email companies
- Able to handle small to medium business traffic. No downtime is highly important! Fast server response times
- $10 to $20 a month range. My clients are able to afford much more, however I don't believe they need more than in that range.
- Ability to prepay a couple of months in advanced without hassle
- Majority US traffic
Thanks! Please let me know which VPS companies are best for my needs!Last edited by Drafun; 08-28-2014 at 10:53 PM.
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08-28-2014, 11:14 PM #2Temporarily Suspended
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Have you checked the vps offers section ?
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08-28-2014, 11:58 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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What are you looking to get for $20.00 a month in regards to HDD Space and Bandwidth?
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08-29-2014, 12:25 AM #4Retired Moderator
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Seems like there may be some misconceptions here about exactly what an unmanaged / self-managed VPS is.
Then you need to get used to (at least) version 5.10 - the current / final version 5 release. On a new build I'd suggest version 6 as a conservative choice, although you do have a couple of years before 5 goes EoL.
- Full FTP, SSH access
- Unmanaged, no cPanel, Webmin! I highly dislike these
- Prompt customer service
- The IP(s) provided must not be blacklisted (or sent into a Junk folder) by GMail, Yahoo or any of the other big email companies
- Able to handle small to medium business traffic. No downtime is highly important!
Fast server response times
- $10 to $20 a month range. My clients are able to afford much more, however I don't believe they need more than in that range.
One key point you didn't mention: backups. Keep your own, taken at whatever intervals are appropriate, and save them on another machine in a different location. Unmanaged providers generally don't provide backups and one day you will need them.
GLLast edited by foobic; 08-29-2014 at 12:34 AM.
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08-29-2014, 01:19 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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08-29-2014, 04:25 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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08-29-2014, 05:00 AM #7WHT Addict
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08-29-2014, 07:31 AM #8WHT Addict
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I would suggest RamNode(great customer service) and get a 128MB RAM VPS as you said "just HTML/CSS with PHP here and there. No MySQL/databases involved.", so just Nginx+PHP would work with very small budget.
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08-29-2014, 03:16 PM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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I suggest RamNode. They prices are fairly acceptable and their support is amazing.
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08-30-2014, 03:40 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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Most of the IPs will be reused by every host. So one can't provide 100% guarantee on that. All providers will have their x day money back guarantee. So during that time, you can test your VPS IP in mxtoolbox and make sure it is clean.
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08-30-2014, 07:46 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Linode or ramnode buddy
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08-30-2014, 08:24 PM #13Disabled
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+1 Linode.
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08-30-2014, 09:42 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Yup also digital ocean
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08-30-2014, 11:41 PM #15Junior Guru
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Linode is a reputed VPS company. I think you can try it.
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08-31-2014, 12:22 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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If I understand you correctly you basically want to design it and have the host handle it all. You need to think more on lines of ateast $50+ per VPS in that case. If I am getting what you are thinking unmanaged will not work for you. Just like people undervalue what it takes to design a decent website. Many undervalue what it actually takes to properly manage a VPS now days.
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09-08-2014, 06:22 PM #17Newbie
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ramnode is a good choice.
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09-08-2014, 07:12 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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My 3 favorites are digital ocean, linode and ramnode
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Mines with farbyte and no issues so far
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