Hosting providers (Re: [Techtalk] Slightly Off Topic)

[Mary]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> If you want your own (virtual) server, you could look at linode.com.  They use 
> User-Mode-Linux to give you your own virtual server with root access.  The 
> plus is that you get to admin the box yourself.  The minus is that you get to 
> admin the box yourself.  :-)  I have not being using it long enough to have 
> any firm views on the service, but I think their admin tools are pretty good, 
> and I do like having root access.

There are a bunch of UML vendors listed at
http://usermodelinux.org/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=12
if you want to do some comparison shopping. I'm with jvds.com.
www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk have a really nice admin interface and
obviously good latency for people in the UK!

As for non-UML (managed) hosting on a shared machine: I was happy with
csoft.net when I was with them.

I don't know anything about either colo (your own machine) or managed
colo.

You may have to hunt around a bit to get more than a guarentee of 99.5%
uptime (that's nearly two days downtime a year). It depends what you
mean by "bulletproof" -- if you meant "five nines uptime [99.999% or
about 5 minutes downtime a year]" then you're looking for something
different than the suggestions you have so far.

-Mary