My friend Alberto has been hosting for about 8 years. He found a company he could resell for that allowed him to offer higher reliability and redundancy, and it's very reasonably priced. He decided to not keep the systems in-house anymore, & moved everything over. I've pasted an excerpt from a thread with him.
Don't let his rinky-dink web site trip you up. They have high-quality services. I now have 6 domains hosted with them, and I'm very happy with all of them. I highly doubt you'll be able to find multiple datacenters for this price anywhere else. Price/mo. Disk Space Bandwidth $5 25 mb 1 G $10 200mb 2.5 G $15 500mb 5 G $20 1 G 12 G $30 1.5 G 18 G $40 2 G 25 G (http://freedomains4u.com/Pricing.html) -Lars Quoted email thread on redundancy specifics: > But I can tell you a little > bit on how the redundancy is setup. The redundancy occurs at the os > and ip level. So from the outside it looks like a single system. > The IP routing between the different ISPs handles the redundancy so > you don't have to have different DNS servers answering different > queries. It all happens at the IP level. Since it is a cluster the > system is spread across all the datacenters and you will always see > a single IP address from the outside, but that IP address is > reachable through any of the ISPs and then each of the datacenters. > Because the routers are the ones that handle the routing to the > right datacenter. In other words, the IP addresses belonging to the > server clusters have multiple routing paths to the Internet. I hope > it makes sense. > > > > Alberto Ruiz, CISSP > Principal Software Engineer > Symantec Security Response > Symantec Corporation ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
