Hosted Linux Servers

[dangerstat]

Hi All,

Just a couple of questions about hosted linux servers. Basically in the near future I'd like to host a few prototype web applications. So I was thinking about renting a hosted linux server. The prices I've seen seem to vary massively, for something like a
Dual core opteron, 2GB, 400GB HDD, unlimited bandwidth at 100Mps what is a reasonable price. Personally I'd prefer to keep it under £55 PCM. Also do most hosted servers have X-forwarding? Rather than editing files and them uploading , or using a comand line editor I'd rather use something like xemacs on the remote machine to minor edits to my code.

Cheers

Dangerstat

 

[dangerstat]

Are you used to server administration? If not... you may be in for a shock if (or perhaps rather when) the server gets hacked.

With regards to your pricing, 100mbit unmetered is unlikely to be anywhere near £55, at least from a decent provider where the bandwidth is guaranteed. Any provider offering that for that price will probably have 30 servers going into a 100mbit port with a 100mbit up link to the internet - i.e. massive contention.

That said, you can get between 3000GB-10000GB data transfer a month with a lot of the budget providers these days. UK2, Rapidswitch, Poundhost all serve this area of the market.

Unless you have a specific reason for going AMD, i'd stick with dual or quad core Intel Xeons.

No not much experience with server administration, at the moment I have a Debian box that I use for small scale testing, so I was hoping to go for a provider that'd offer Debian minimal install as a choice. I was having a quick look at read an offer for pretty much exactly what I posted for £82 per month, so I thought £55 didn't sound too outrageous. No there's no specific reason for going with Opteron's over Xeons I just thought it might be marginally cheaper.

I'll check out those that you mention. If I where going to go for a bandwidth capped option, I want to option to "upgrade" in the future to unlimited bandwidth without having to change hosting company TBH.

 

[dangerstat]

I rent one of these:

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/...6E068E5D6090DB.TC33b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static

That's the one I saw in my reply to Daz (post #3).

Thanks for your offer Angelos_n, I may well drop you an email.

Generally, how concerned should I me about security issues Daz? I so kind of assuming that as they where hosted there'd be no problems security wise?

Also what is "internal" security like, I don't like the idea of some techy viewing / editing / copying any apps or code I have on my server.

Cheers

Dstat