Does anyone know of a good company to get a dedicated server to host my sites? I have some new projects in the works and shared hosting just won’t cut it anymore. 1&1 has some good pricing on dedicated servers, but I have a free account through them and I hate their Control Panel and the fact that I need they use different usernames for everything. One for FTP, another for MySQL, others for email, etc. I love my current host, Aplus.net, but they won’t do any type of price matching for me, so it looks like I’ll have to make a switch.
I’m not looking for anything super special. I want a good processor, decent HD space, a lot of bandwitdh…pretty much all the basics.
Suggestions?
Nick Momrik 
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Try theplanet.com or servermatrix.com, same company different markets.
Those are unmanaged dedicated servers. Depending on your price range, you can get a decent managed server for $400 a month…
However, if you pick up an unmanaged server around $99 / month and go with a service like http://www.acunett.com who will do the security and help with the management, it isn’t that hard.
but if you want a server for under $99 a month, its pretty hard to find a good one.
What ever you do, make sure you secure it…
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Hey nick,
I use High Speed Web
Hope it helps bud.
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$400? 1&1 has them for $109 and less, Aplus has them for $149 and less, and both are managed servers.
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We use Canaca.com. 30 Gig hard drive, 120 GB bandwidth. Decent processors and memory. Current plan we use is VPS.
Good luck!
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I’ve been using Verio for the past four and a half years hosting my sites and about 17 others. Very excellent service and product; best thing on this package as well is that there is no limit/charge on bandwidth. Also, this package allows total control of ownership of file permissions, etc.
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I *love* HostingMatters.com – I have hosted with them (as a reseller) for over 3 years and they have always been fantastic. Their dedicated rates are great. Hope that helps!
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http://theplanet.com/ and http://servermatrix.com/ were suggested to me by Matt and they both look pretty good. Matt uses theplanet and “their support and network is excellent.” He also said, “From what I
understand servermatrix is the same company in the same datacenter but with less support.”
Edit: Didn’t even realize that Patrick suggested these same ones in the first comment…shows how much I’ve been into my blog lately! 😐
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With that said, I think I’ll be going with this. It looks like one of the best deals out there and fits in my budget. Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I won’t be signing up for a few days, so if anyone has anymore ideas, let me know.
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It’s all up in the air now. I’m not really sure I need a dedicated server and I know that I don’t want to be responsible for security wherever I host my site. The only real need I have is more data transfer bandwidth per month. I’m already approaching my limits and I’ll be moving a few other domains over so that they are all at one hosting company. I may be sticking with Aplus after all. Who knows!
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1&1 has great managed server packages that might be just what I need. You can’t beat the price either.
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Have looked into Server Intellect? We use them for about 6 of our server. They have a great support and response team.
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