Decent Co-Location or Virtual Server Hosting? 145
gclef writes "Speakeasy announced recently that they're being bought by Best Buy. Despite all the promises to the contrary, I suspect my ability to host servers in my home is going away soon. Does anyone have hints as to where I can get a reasonable co-lo space or virtual hosting? I don't want to outsource the management of my domains entirely, nor will 'webhosting' be good enough, since I like having control of my own stuff (and like running my own DNS, IMAPS, and other assorted network services). Is there some place that will give me a blank box with an unfiltered connection to the net?"
That really depends. (Score:3, Informative)
A lot of places are running "Specials" right now, giving you a relatively decent piece of iron but very little bandwidth for ~$100/mo
Other places give you less impressive hardware but more bandwidth for about the same price.
I personally host with Cyberwurx [cyberwurx.com], a p4 3.0, 512mb ram, 80gb hd and 500gb bandwidth for $95/mo, and they'll install your choice of Linux on it, or even boot you into a gentoo live cd so you can roll your own.
If you go that route, put "vanamar" in your referral code!
EV1Servers.Net (Score:3, Informative)
Jason
Personal Colo (Score:5, Informative)
WebHostingTalk.com (Score:2, Informative)
Or you could just google for "vps hosting" or "dedicated hosting" and start working through the plethora of results
VPSLand (Score:2, Informative)
Re:VPSLand (Score:3, Informative)
IRC servers attract DOS attacks. It's better or worse depending on which particular IRC network they connect to, but it's no wonder that the providers find it easier to just blanket ban IRC.
Linode.com (Score:4, Informative)
Re:EV1Servers.Net (Score:5, Informative)