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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on April 7, 2008, 10:06 pm
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CJM wrote:
> I've been running some hobby sites and charity sites from a shared
> multi-site hosting package for a few years; performance is bearable,
> then it tails off, and then I move - ad nauseum. But, to be fair, the
> price was right.
>
> I'm now developing a commercial site (with backend application(s)) for a
> 3rd party - nothing too outrageous, but I need better hosting. In
> addition, I'm negotiating with a company to host and support their
> portfolio of (small) sites.
>
> So I'm now looking at entry-level Windows VPS hosting (needs to be
> Windows for my back-end applications); I don't want to be too ambitious
> (neither revenuse streams will be *that* lucrative) nor do I want to aim
> too low.
>
> I'm budgeting at around £250/yr approx, and for that amount there are a
> range of packages available. Disk space isn't an issue, nor is bandwidth
> - but I am hoping for respectable responsiveness, so Guarranteed RAM
> seems to be the metric of interest. Value range from 128Mb up to 1Gb,
> but 256Mb-512Mb is typical. Another important factor is CPU share; most
> services offer an equal slice, but some offer 'upto' 30%.
>
> I could trial any number of services (and I may do in time) but ideally
> I'd like to aim at the right spot first time. But I have no idea how
> much RAM I should aim for... I'd never run a server (in my day-job)
> without 2GB+ of RAM and a dual-core processor. Clearly that is overkill
> (and unaffordable!), but how low should I go? Likewise with CPU
> resources, I'm unsure. I'm erring on the 'equal split' packages, so that
> I get a decent minimum slice of the proverbial pie, but these CPU share
> figures have a distinct smell of snake-oil.
>
> So, has anyone got any (Windows) VPS experience that they can share with
> me?
>
> And perhaps some recommendation? Clearly I'm in the UK, but I'm not
> averse to using overseas hosts (as indeed I do now).
>
> Thanks
>
> CJM
>
> PS. Yeah, it's been a while....
>
I've got a couple of Windows VPS's with PowerVPS. I'm pretty happy with
them.
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