On 3/5/07, Chris Slothouber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd recommend Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Their network has great connectivity to Europe and their prices are competitive for unmetered plans. http://www.leaseweb.com/index.php?p=dedicatedflatfee http://noc.leaseweb.com/cgi-bin/peers.pl Alexandre Vieira wrote: >> > >> >> Personally, I would never consider a vendor that does not at least >> >> have a cursory knowledge of the platform I was using on a leased >> >> server. If they are miles away, I want someone with a clue to be my >> >> eyes an ears in the event of an emergency. >> >> >> >> I'd recommend going with a host who supports FreeBSD. > I'm interested in this specific company because the boxes are hosted in > France and cprm.net (A big telco in Portugal) is an excelent carrier for > France and UK. I have less than 50ms roundtrip time for this network. > > Also for 99eur/month you get a dual opteron w/ 2x160GB SATA2 disks, 1GB > DDRII, linked to a 100mbps network (shared but burstable) with no traffic > limit. > > But the guy who called me to help me with my questions doesn't understand > much of anything and he tought Freebsd was a linux distro plus he > refuses to > either install freebsd on the machine or put a CD on the server tray and > plug in a serial cable to the machine so I can install it. I don't even > know > how would I install freebsd without using depenguinator or going on site > myself. > > I've tested depenguinator back in the 5.4 days with some friends, just for > the kicks, but as someone said before.. I can't rely on a company that > knows > nothing about the technology i'll be using. > > If anyone know a good UK or Franch dedicated server provider, let me > know :) > > Cheers _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thanks for the feebback Chris. I've took a look and the prices are very reasonable as well, but still.. it's more expensive (equivalent hardware) and the latency for Portugal is higher. If I can't get my way around the folks at amenworld this is my second best solution. 64 bytes from www.amen.pt (62.193.207.153): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=46.443msec 64 bytes from www.leaseweb.com (83.149.80.111): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time= 57.091 msec Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
