more geekery: dedicated hosting

hallucienate · 09 Feb 2006, 15:01

We're looking at hosting a dedicated Windoze server in Europe. Can anyone suggest a good hosting company?

Karst · 09 Feb 2006, 15:36

www.bytel.net.uk

hallucienate · 09 Feb 2006, 15:39

Karst wrote:www.bytel.net.uk

Thanks

any rough ideas on costing?

Karst · 09 Feb 2006, 15:52

Depends on what you want - it would be tailored. Send an email to them - the guy is called Ian I think.

Zuma · 09 Feb 2006, 23:33

I use these guys - http://www.webage.co.uk/
Never had a problem and good support...

Ask for Mick

mik · 10 Feb 2006, 09:11

http://www.1and1.co.uk

Hosting the board right now..

Windows hosting from Â£5.99 per month; includes ASP.NET / .NET framework / Sharepoint / SQL Server 2000 (db only on Business Pro / Professional packages).

I use them for several sites, all on Linux/Apache/MySQL, and they're good. Service is OK once you get up to Business Pro level as there's dedicated tech support plus you can get SSH access....

I'd give the thumbs up at any rate.

hallucienate · 10 Feb 2006, 09:59

Thanks All.

I understand QB is moving away from 1&1?

We aren't looking for site hosting, we need to rent our own server that we can get Admin access to and p*ss around on.

mik · 10 Feb 2006, 12:21

hallucienate wrote:We're looking at hosting a dedicated Windoze server in Europe. Can anyone suggest a good hosting company?

So you're looking for hosting...

hallucienate wrote:Thanks All.

I understand QB is moving away from 1&1?

We aren't looking for site hosting, we need to rent our own server that we can get Admin access to and p*ss around on.

but then you say you're not....

What EXACTLY do you want the box for?

Wasn't aware of the possible move by Herr Quiff, but then again he doesn't ask permission from me for everything....

Server rental is v expensive. 1&1 would be Â£59 per month for a windows box, and to be honest you could get your own leased line for less.

A more realistic option might be twin ADSL connections with a couple of routers to give you sufficient bandwidth for internet traffic for a site like this one.

I've got (secured) IIS / Apache / FTP and Exchange servers sitting on machines running at home that are accesible via the net: OK for me but the uplink is only 256k/512k so no good for commercial use.

If you're running ISA on IIS then that would help a lot with bandwidth utilisation and might make it doable and if so the cost is peanuts really.

Mik

hallucienate · 10 Feb 2006, 12:45

I'm sitting in the arse end of Africa, so we need to go with server rental.

I work for and ISP and we need an IIS server to host sites internationally as bandwidth in South Africa is rather expensive and way off the European backbones.

I'll take a look at the three companies recommended and pass the info onto my boss.

Qb was threatening to leave 1&1 as the support was poor.

10 Feb 2006, 13:14

i hate 1&1

its not dedicated hosting, but i've got a contract with these people now: http://www.whosyourhost.com

they're a very small operation so their support is fantastic - the head honcho alex is always available on msn and happy to help with anything

their boxes are well spec'ed and sit on the end of a big fat pipe.

i've already moved all my domains apart from myheartland.co.uk over changed nameservers. in addition i've also moved the HL database.

the only thing that runs on 1&1 now is the email for the @myheartland.co.uk addresses and the php scripts for the heartland forum. once the 2006 tour calms down i'll be moving that too

10 Feb 2006, 13:15

you could probably ask the chap from my new hosting co about where he gets his servers from? you might be able to get one too?