[thelist] Dedicated Server Hosting

[Asif Suria]

I have heard about their excellent service from
friends who use their servers. The only support I am
looking for is hardware support in case a component
fails and we will be taking care of all the
administration on our end.

After all the good things I have read about ThePlanet
on this and other lists, I am surprised to hear about
your client's experience.

Anyone else on this list care to share their
experience with either ThePlanet, GoDaddy or
Rackspace?

Asif
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--- Chris Ditty <cditty at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use rackspace for my hosting.  If/when I have a
> problem, I call them and
> they fix it, no problem and with a smile on their
> face.  I have a client
> that has a server at ThePlanet(I think) and when
> something goes wrong,
> support is no help.  It is up to you to troubleshoot
> and fix.
> 
> I'm personally happy with Rackspace and don't plan
> on changing anytime soon.
> 
> CDitty
> 
> On 10/14/06, Asif Suria <asifsuria at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I understand that discussions about dedicated
> server
> > hosting come up on this list from time to time and
> I
> > went through some of the old threads to see which
> > service providers were most recommended.
> >
> > It appears that ThePlanet.com seems to be a
> favorite.
> > I priced one of their "Total Control" servers and
> > while the base price was attractive, once I added
> some
> > of the services I need such as dual mirrored hard
> > drives (RAID 1), a hardware firewall and dedicated
> SQL
> > server workgroup edition, the cost of the server
> > almost doubled.
> >
> > I priced a similar server on GoDaddy.com (without
> the
> > dual processors since they do not offer that
> option)
> > and the cost was almost half that of The Planet. I
> > have several websites hosted with GoDaddy and have
> > been generally happy with their service (I am also
> > glad that they scrapped their plans to go public,
> but
> > I digress). Does anyone on this list have any
> thoughts
> > about hosting a dedicated server on GoDaddy?
> >
> > Rackspace was another option I considered but some
> of
> > the recent reviews I have seen about them have not
> > been very good. I have priced servers on Rackspace
> in
> > the past and found them to be prohibitively
> expensive,
> > in spite of the "fanatical support" that they
> offer.
> >
> > If you use some other provider and are happy with
> > their service, I would love to hear about it. Your
> > feedback would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Asif
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