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hosting: moving away from shared, and into Virtual Private Servers (VPS)?
iphigenie:
Most rentable vps are of the xen variety or jails.
I have a toy server BSD jail and it's a lovely server to mess about with, install things, remove things, reset to blank state...
gammaray1:
I've been using a Windows VPS with Godaddy for about 3 months and have to say it's horrible. You are are the mercy of everyone else that's using other VPS's on the same physical server. My server is getting "rebooted" constantly but I expect it's not just my server and actually the physical server. Twice now my server has run out of memory and CPU, yet I know it's not actually my VPS since the ONLY thing it does is serve up an ASP based WAP site with a max of 15 users online. To give an idea of it's usage, since Jan 1 I have only used 1.3G of bandwidth on the site, clearly not a big hitter :) compared to my dedicated servers that do 15-30GB/day
I have a number of dedicated servers that I run the real stuff on (all Linux) and have never had any problems with them. Dedicated is the way to go!!
iphigenie:
I have had less-than-good experiences with godaddy in almost all non-domain services I tried
Of course dedicated is the way to go if you can justify the cost but around here dedicated start at about £49 and a good VPS around £12 so if your needs are actually mostly covered by the capacity of a shared server but you want the control
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