Ok.. 1. genuian are only providing shared host solutions, for someone who only host a small web sites and want to put his video/pictures, some mail accounts, small stuff like that. Their biggest offering is 1.2GB space. tell me again what can I really do with it? host my /tmp? :)
I did the calculation. You took a 5K NIS 1U machine, loaded it, travelled to an ISP, installed the server, checked that everything working and went on with your life.. But what will happens when (god forbid) something fucks up? (and it's usually fucks up at precisely the wrong time), you'll have to go to a hardware vendor, buy a new part (disk, cpu, RAM, whatever), go to the ISP, fix the machine, reboot, see if everything works and go back home/work. You just lost a day of work. Do you own math how much you lost financially. In my case - I don't need to drive anywhere and I don't care if the machine burned in flames. They will replace the machine within 12 hours. At most I'll just have to restore from a backup, install some apps, and I'm back online, plus - they give a nice package of additions that I mentioned earlier, so I think that at the end of the day - it's worth the money. As for why RHEL - well, the other options were FreeBSD and Windows 2003. I preffer to stick with Linux on my servers :) Oh, you may also want to look at their place (quite a huge servers farm): http://www.ev1servers.net/english/dc/360.asp Thanks, Hetz > do this calculation over time. I took a 5000 NIS 1U machine, loaded with > P4/2.8Ghz, 1.5 gig RAM, dual 160 gig SATA, my favorite Debian flavour > and hosted the whole thing at a local ISP for $60 a month. true I > muscled them down from $95 but I could even get a lower price from their > competitor on a slower line. > > in the long run, I think I'm getting a better deal. be careful what you > pay for. do you really need RHEL?! > > the other good solutions in between are genuian.com and its ilk. I never > used them myself but I know several that do and find it an excellent > value and good level of service. > > -- > The first of his kind > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
