[Tfug] The Semiannual Colocation/hosting service question

[Harry McGregor]

I have not used them much, but I have tested a Xen server from Budget 
Dedicated, and it worked nicely.  They let you take a server for a 7 day 
test drive for free.  It's shell managed, but they are smart enough that 
you can put in an ssh public key, and it will automatically add it for 
root's authorized_keys, etc.

The biggest thing for me, is that there data center is across the pond 
(Denmark), which has some nice redundancy aspects.

Unfortunately, the USD vs the Euro is not that great right now, so the 
price is a bit higher than I would like

www.budgetdedicated.com

Cheapest option, 48MB ram, 1GB HD, 10GB transit, is 10.02 Euro/month 
(currently $15.53)

80MB, 4GB, 30GB transit, is 16.08 Euro/month (currently $24.95)

112MB, 20GB, 100GB transit, is 29.03 Euro/month (currently $45)

Oh, and Debian Etch images are one of the options :)

                      Harry

Matt Jacob wrote:
> keith smith wrote:
>> Do they give you a control panel or is it all shell?
>
> There's a control panel, but it controls your services as a whole and 
> not individual components of the server. In other words, it's not like 
> cPanel or Plesk, but you can do cool things like launch an AJAX console 
> (in case you write firewall rules that accidentally block you out of SSH 
> or something), take backup images, perform a hard reboot, rebuild from a 
> base image, manage DNS, etc.
>
> All administration of the box is done from the shell, though.
>
> Matt
>
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