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Looking For A New Web Host/Dedicated Server Provider

LayeredTech, a dedicated server hosting company that I've used for years and have a couple servers with, has decided to raise their rates. Last year, it was a simple $8/month increase, which I was fine with as they promised remote reboot cards for their server. A year later, I still don't have a remote reboot card for either of my servers, and they've decided to raise my rates $28/month for each server, no matter how many you have (and there are folks with dozens of servers with them). Needless to say, the natives are restless, and I tend to be one of them. They recently bought another Web hosting company and secured $11 million worth of funding, but apparently they don't seem to find a problem with raising the rates for all their clients, cutting into the meager profits I had on these servers (as they're mostly for hosting sites like this one along with some small companies around Bend).

Needless to say, I'm shopping around now. If anybody has any recommendations, I'd be glad to hear them (I have some emails into some reputable companies around the country). I'd also consider a partial advertising trade for a link on this site as well. Comment below or email utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com. I'd also consider co-location if the deal was right and the network didn't suck (but I'd prefer just renting the server as that way I can yell at somebody if the hardware goes bad).

Posted by Jake on 05/29/08 @ 11:01 AM
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Lilith said on 05/29/08 @ 11:30 AM:
Maybe Bendtel? I haven't had a problem with their service.

Jake said on 05/29/08 @ 12:16 PM:
If BendTel can provided dedicated hosting, I'd talk to them. But as far as I know, they only offer colocation and I'd have to have spare parts on hand (which I wouldn't have to with a dedicated server host). I'll email the folks there, too.

Richy C. said on 05/29/08 @ 12:25 PM:
I use Softlayer.com myself, although theplanet.com wasn't too bad (they did go through a "merger" with ev1servers a couple of years ago which is when I pulled all the servers from them as they went downhill quite a bit: I've got no idea why they are like now), but if you are looking for a smaller server such as a VPS, I don't hesitate to recommend Memset.com - however, with the current GBP to USD exchange rate, Softlayer.com may actually work out cheaper for you.

If you have multiple servers, have a word with Mary Hall (or another or the sales reps) at Softlayer as they do do discounts for bulk orders (if you do contact them, please let them know that I referred you to them ;) ).

Paul said on 05/29/08 @ 04:33 PM:
Well, I live in the Netherlands, so I suppose this comment won't do you any good, but here's my two cents nonetheless. Maybe it will give you a good idea for price and feature comparison.

My brother's company, Luminos, just recently switched to XLS Hosting. We have a virtual private server with 128 MB RAM and 10 GB of space, which is their cheapest VPS plan. At only about €14/month it's a great deal, and so far the experience has been awesome. I set up a SVN server, IMAP mail and even prepared some client subaccounts when we get around to doing hosting reselling for some of our clients ourselves. (We chose to have DirectAdmin installed on a CentOS 5 machine.)

The price difference between a VPS and truly dedicated server is pretty substantial, but our dual-core 2.4 GHz shared machine is still phenomenally fast. We can reboot or turn off our VPN remotely as well (but haven't ever done so).

Andrew said on 05/30/08 @ 10:10 AM:
I'm hosted on a dedicated server of a business partner of mine, run by EV1servers (used to be rackshack).

Highly recommended, I've been on there coming on 5 years now, and I can count on one hand the number of problems we've ever had.

http://ev1servers.net

Maggie said on 06/03/08 @ 02:00 PM:
Hi, You might call Maggie at Integra Telecom. they do local webhosting.

Ken Edwards said on 06/06/08 @ 05:03 PM:
Hey Jake, I am using Softlayer for a dedicated box right now and Liquid Web for a VPS. Both have excellent support.

Paul said on 07/26/08 @ 10:50 PM:
I've tried VPS hosting (the price is very attractive), but I found I couldn't live in the ram allotted me. I had a VPS account with 256mb burstable to 512mb. First off spam assasin would not run in the limited memory. Also CMS systems would load really slow. I'm now on a shared system with higher CPU utilization than we had on the VPS, but pages load in about 1/10th the time as before.

morph1x said on 11/14/08 @ 07:52 AM:
Another hosting company you might want to check out is ServOnDemand.com, my friend just rented a server from there and he's been looking for a good host for a while and he's as happy as can be. I suppose it would depend on your needs but they have some awesome pricing and service from what I hear.

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