On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:33:39 +0100, David Precious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used to have a dedicated Root Server with One & One (the UK side, but hosted > in Germany) and I really would not recommend them - their customer service > was nothing short of atrocious. It became a major, major headache just to > explain to them that the box needed power-cycling - I believe they used the > cheapest possible hardware, and now and then it'd crash and be unable to see > its hard-drives until it was cold booted. Trying to explain to them that > they needed to cold boot it was next to impossible. Yeah, I've heard *LOTS* of bad things about 1and1... I shall avoid them like variable-width fonts in a code editor. > I dumped them and moved to Bytemark hosting > (http://www.bytemark.co.uk/index.html?referer=cloudburst) on one of their > Virtual Dedicated servers (for about 16 UKP per month - take a look at the > pricing on their site for exact figures) and they've been great. They're > only a two-man operation, but on the few occasions I've needed to speak to > Matthew, he's been extremely friendly and helpful. I've never spoken to > Peter yet, but I assume he's similarly helpful. I'd highly recommend them (I > know they're not US based, but they're still worth a mention!) Someone else recommended them as well. They do look like a good outfit... My current leaning is toward an outfit called VPS Colo... http://www.vpscolo.com/packages.php I haven't found anyone that beats their features yet and they seem pretty highly recommended on www.webhostingtalk.com... anyone here got any experience with them? thanks, Stephen ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
