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Originally Posted by psili
Thanks man....
I was actually more curious about price points for a box that had just SSH and SFTP access... I could care less about having Cpanel (well, at least for the interim). Also, since I could care less about Cpanel, what's the admin charge from a hosting company for hooking up DNS, setting up email accounts as they're needed and even the most basic: starting / stopping a server in case I make one unstable.
Basically -- I'm coming from an environment where I've had free reign to request servers + the software on them, as a developer playing with whatever software I want. How would one, as myself, find something like that in a hosting company if I were to be on my own?
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Well, if you just want SSH and SFTP(scp), that's damn easy. Virtually any host could give that to you for whatever their baseline/going rate is.
Usually they charge little to nothing for DNS. I've never seen it cost more than $2/zone, and that was back when you could get away when charging for it.
Usual 'starting'/'stopping' as in rebooting is included with the basic fees, but to have someone go in and restart services for you, you'll often have to pay for partially managed services. It all depends on the provider.
If you're familar with the software, and can install it yourself, of course, you're golden, but if you need support, that's where you either get a fully dedicated system with administration included, or folks like ServerGenius, and I come in.
Folks such as ServerGenius and I usually offer either a 'pay by the hour' or an 'on call' service where you retain our services for a flat rate for a given time.
Many of the 'fully managed' systems you can get will not give you root access, and you need to open a ticket for any changes, and hope that it's done within 72 hours or so. Being on this side of the fence, I can't rate any hosts in-house services beyond their network and customer service skills.
I am quite pleased with the support I've had working with folks such as ServerGenius, and WebAir.