Alan Pope wrote: > Personally I use bitfolk (UK based) and the service is excellent.
http://bitfolk.com/plans.html Oooh, very impressive. Good specifications and well priced for the UK, too, provided you don't need much bandwidth (30GB default cap). Lucy wrote: > On 07/03/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally I use bitfolk (UK based) and the service is excellent. > Looks good but so far the others are doing better on price and > bandwidth allowance. Hmm. With UK datacentres? Who? I'd be genuinely interested. I usually buy US/Canadian VPSes due to the price. Lucy wrote: > On 06/03/2008, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> such as vpsville.ca , tektonic.net , cheapvps.co.uk and so forth - > Has anyone tried any of these companies? I was tempted by > vpsvillage.com, but cheapvps also looks interesting as it's based in > the UK. I haven't used cheapvps. I've used www.tektonic.net for over five years (still on RedHat 9!) and have been reasonably impressed. They did have a couple of days downtime two years ago, but since moving datacentre after that, haven't had any unannounced downtime in two years. Support is reasonably quick and efficient, and the US$15/month plan is well-featured to the point of generous (256MB RAM + burst allowance, 10GB disk, 500GB bandwidth/month). Maintenance downtime is announced in advance and done quickly and on time. Virtual servers run very smooth. However I am moving away from them since they recently introduced a "no bittorrent, no proxies" policy which I personally find too restrictive. I would thoroughly recommend them for running a LAMP server. They support Ubuntu as a default install option. Ping times from UK in the 130ms range. I have recently (last week) started a new www.vpsville.ca account. They currently have an offer of 25% off their prices for life, using code WINTER453 , although this offer is due to expire soon. Within one minute of me authorising PayPal payment, I received an email with my root password and could log in! Specifications are good (US$15/month gives 128MB RAM, 6GB disk, 100GB bandwidth) but not as generous as TekTonic. However vpsville have a simple "you can do anything so long as it's not illegal" policy which I find more suitable than TekTonic's terms of service. Also was impressed that a manual "whole image" backup was available from the account control panel, and also a console root login option (so you can get in even if you lock yourself out with a misconfigured firewall). Virtual servers run very smooth but I've only used them for a few days yet. They support Ubuntu as a default install option, I'm very impressed and would recommend them. Ping times from the UK in the 120ms range. One to AVOID is veggiehost.com . Took three days to set up, and servers are unbelievably sluggishly slow from mid-afternoon to late night GMT (ie. daytime USA) with up to 40% packet loss from the UK. They are very cheap and well-specced, but it isn't worth it, the performance just isn't there. I've cancelled my account. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
