[vox] webhosting/shell recomendations?

[Rob Rogers]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 17:56:26PM -0800, ME wrote:
> There are a variety of different colocation services available with
> various offers ranging from simple web-hosting through to true colocation.
> 
> I bought a Dell PowerEdge 1U unit and do my colocation business with
> http://www.johncompanies.com/ . I know they do not have the most

I knew I was forgetting to mention something... I'm looking for a
semi-low end virtual hosting service for now. I expect to be looking for
some sort of co-lo within a year or so, but like I said, 90% of my
traffic right now is email. I've been on a $10-15 virtual hosting plan
for the past few years, and have never gone near my bandwidth limits.

That said, features and reliability is more important than price to me,
within reason. I'm sure I can find what I'm looking for in the $20-25
price range at the most. I've just had too much bad luck with hosts
lately, and I would rather get a recomendation of a reliable company.

Oh, and has anyone use any of the VDS (virtual dedicated servers)? It
looks really cool. You get a virtual server via UML (user mode linux)
with full control, including root access, but you're still on a shared
server. Most of the benifits of a co-lo, but without the completely
dedicated server, and a good bit cheaper.