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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
Why can't everyone just get along... There are lots of happy customers at M3Server and VACares. Advanced managed support, service monitoring and regular backups all have value. Anyone offering these services will of course be more expensive than a bare bones server.
Brad
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That's what it really comes down to - the support, the backups, and the monitoring. I grabbed servers from soyoustart/ovh and self-manage, and I'm competent in that area but I did have to sort out my own backups (cheapest was to actually get another cheap server from them and use rsnapshot). They have some rudimentary monitoring as well at the host's control panel. Since I'm doing my own support my response time is immediate and I never have to wait stressing out, and I know i'll always accomplish what I actually want the first time around.
I work with alot of hosts, and I know exactly who has fast response times and who has competent techs. Mojo has pretty fast, knowledgeable staff. Reflected is great as well especially with matters of security (and their cloud storage takes the whole headache of scaling off your head), and M3Server is also very good. There are some other (popular) hosts in adult that I won't name but sometimes require 5-10 emails back and forth to even get a working ftp account.
Someone mentioned AWS. It's about the most expensive possible way to run a tube site due to their ridiculous pricing for storage and bandwidth. A site pushing 1gbit would run about 10x more on AWS to run then via traditional servers.