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[Stormbitch]

Current host -

1/ Rude
2/ Using almost 40% of my revenue.
3/ No problems generally for 5 years
4/ Spent 11,600 and they are rude
5/ Did I mention they are rude?
6/ When **** hits fan they charge £180 per hour. That's right folks that's ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY GREAT BRITISH POUNDS PER HOUR.

Current Server cost £154 including VAT per month

SPEC -

HP DL1
Dual core 2.2
2gig
2xraid1 250

Speed and performance - Cannot grumble not amazing light speed on any of my connections.
Viruses and weird stuff happens - Yes.

My current usage of that spec to give you an idea of traffic demand and so on.

top - 14:14:55 up 3 days, 14:20, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.31, 0.19
Tasks: 153 total, 1 running, 152 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.2%id, 1.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2058188k total, 2006280k used, 51908k free, 316008k buffers
Swap: 4095992k total, 296k used, 4095696k free, 840456k cached


Offer number 1 - Host Gator - VPS.

SPEC -

VPS Level 7
4.24Gig CPU
3166 Ram
165GB Space
2250 GB Bandwidth
FULLY MANAGED
FREE PORT ALL SITES AND SET UP

COST - £90 per month or $149


OFFER NUMBER 3 - Host Gator - Dedicated Server

SPEC -

Intel Xeon 3450 (Quad Core)
2 GB DDR3 Memory
2 x 250 GB Hard Drive
10 TB Bandwidth
5 Dedicated IPs
FREE cPanel

Support included need to check that again as they hinted it was kind of all in unless the **** hits the fan

COST - £!06 or $174

OFFER NUMBER 3

Clustered.net

VPS 70 XEN
16XSAS RAID 10
15VPS per server
3 GIG CPU
4GB Mem
2GB Swap
70GB
FULLY MANAGED
RAID 10 Disc space
1400 GIG BANDWIDTH

COST - £84 including VAT AND HE OFFERED TO DEMO MY BIGGEST SITE BY COPYING HIMSELF OVER AS A DEMO!!! V GOOD SERVICE.

If you are a provider and can beat that fair enough but - these have
1. Nice site design
2. Nice brand image
3. Great fast and accurate no nonsense advice
4. Cheaper than the other 12 odd I have looked at.

I am nervous about firms that are not around much.. as I sense they are profiteering entrepreneurs not long term 20 year experts in the field.

So...

Drum roll... presenter raises voice and

"ooooverrr to the experts" Raises right hand in a welcoming gesture.......

[UKDirectHost]

Not knowing how much traffic you get, how intense your sites are memory-wise, your "top" results of earlier showed you had much less free memory, I personally would go with Offer no. 3 with Hostgator. I've had many servers with them, hopped on to live chat and sorted if any problems arose.

[GetKVM_Ash]

Do not go for hostgator you only need to read the reviews here to know that!

[Amar]

So you need that managed with cPanel? AFACS that's the only option that makes clustered.net 4GB VPS go to 84

[TheJoker]

That HostGator quote is first month only. I'd go with KnownHost 3450 and 8 GB RAM. As a matter of fact, I'd go with KnownHost for any VPS or Dedi.

[GetKVM_Ash]

Leaseweb have some good deals aswell i have no experience with them myself though.

[Stormbitch]

1. Thanks you guys..

2. Leaaseweb canned in this forum... one negative is enough as it reflects only those comments of someone who can be bothered to post... !!!

3. Hostgator quote I gave was the monthly not the cheaper first month.

Where are the **** reviews please on hostgator? well done for spotting..

4. My traffic is as follows

20,000 uniques per month
1.9 million page impressions
Average user time approx 10 mins
Some of this includes uploading and downloading of music files. IE playing audio clips - or uploading up to 10mb of audio clips.
A typical session could have up to 100 people listening to audio clips concurrently. Its a small niche for specialists.

See it as a bands site where bands upload demos and people listen to them.

I have 6 sites
1 major as above -
4 small one to 6 page sites


PS - CPU share scares me a hell of a lot.

[GetKVM_Ash]

Dont let CPU share scare you, if you get a share of a powerful server it would be better than dedicated CPU on a budget server.

[TheJoker]

Hostgator quote I gave was the monthly not the cheaper first month.

Ah, you are correct. My mistake.

[chasebug]

Originally Posted by Stormbitch

1. Thanks you guys..

2. Leaaseweb canned in this forum... one negative is enough as it reflects only those comments of someone who can be bothered to post... !!!

3. Hostgator quote I gave was the monthly not the cheaper first month.

Where are the **** reviews please on hostgator? well done for spotting..

4. My traffic is as follows

20,000 uniques per month
1.9 million page impressions
Average user time approx 10 mins
Some of this includes uploading and downloading of music files. IE playing audio clips - or uploading up to 10mb of audio clips.
A typical session could have up to 100 people listening to audio clips concurrently. Its a small niche for specialists.

See it as a bands site where bands upload demos and people listen to them.

I have 6 sites
1 major as above -
4 small one to 6 page sites


PS - CPU share scares me a hell of a lot.

Are these stats correct? 20000 unique visitors is viewing 95 pages each? With less than 700 visitors daily, you could just go for a shared hosting account for about $10/month.

[Stormbitch]

Originally Posted by chasebug

Are these stats correct? 20000 unique visitors is viewing 95 pages each? With less than 700 visitors daily, you could just go for a shared hosting account for about $10/month.

What about customers

1/ Uploading up to 10MB each in audio
2/ Customers listening to this on their players
3/ Running the database
4/ Fast pro looking page loads

I also have 6 other sites - my bad for not mentioning - but they are not getting any business. So .... its only the main one .

[XLHost]

Originally Posted by TheJoker

That HostGator quote is first month only. I'd go with KnownHost 3450 and 8 GB RAM. As a matter of fact, I'd go with KnownHost for any VPS or Dedi.

Funny you mention HostGator, they have a billboard down the street from our facility looking to hire random people for Linux admin work.. very strange considering we are 2000 miles away from them...

[chasebug]

Originally Posted by Stormbitch

What about customers

1/ Uploading up to 10MB each in audio
2/ Customers listening to this on their players
3/ Running the database
4/ Fast pro looking page loads

I also have 6 other sites - my bad for not mentioning - but they are not getting any business. So .... its only the main one .

Shared hosting is enough, save yourself some money. I would get a reseller account so each site can have their own hosting account.

[Stormbitch]

This is really strange. I was thinking this VPS technology really has come along way - 6 years ago when I started I had no option but to be advised to have a dedicated server. Now people are saying that VPS will out perform my current dedicated... thats almost too good to be true?

[TheJoker]

I'd take a quality hardware with RAID 10 VPS on a fast network and on a non-oversold node over a low-end dedi. That's certainly not true for a budget VPS.