On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 01:11:00AM -0500, Andrew Langmead wrote: >Does anyone have any experience with any companies providing "Virtual Private >Server" (also > called "Virtual Dedicated Hosting")?
After years of using shared hosting services, I switched about a year ago to a UML based VPS with tektonic.com and am quite happy with it. For $35/month, I get 4GB of space and two IP addresses with "root" access to a virtual server on which I run smtp,dns, and http services. I really like the fact that I can control almost everything and can run any services I want and am not completely at the mercy of the administrator's paranoia, ignorance or schedule. The main disadvantage I have found is that you cannot run commands which require real root privileges. For instance: iptables does not work and init is really a fake init which cannot be controlled. The providers have been very responsive to my needs. They initially had some growing pains when I first started with them, but have since become quite reliable. I am also interested in other people's experiences with similar services. -Gyepi _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
