[Neworleans-pm] Re: Caught a comment on NewOrleans.pm

[Donnie Cameron]

James,

Thank you very much for your comments. I started with voxrox.com today. 
The server is already up, running Debian Sarge, and everything seems ok 
so far. I plan to start moving some of my Web sites, all of which are 
driven by a large Perl program and the PostgreSQL database, to the new 
server over the weekend.

Voxrox.com seems a little expensive, but after some research I 
determined that they were among the most reliable. I've been having some 
really bad experiences with local service providers; no one can keep 
their line up for a whole week. This is playing havoc with some of my 
billing systems, so I was very sensitive to finding a dedicated machine 
that would never go down. I researched the subject thoroughly on Google 
and on webhostingtalk.com, which provided some very insightful comments.

I hope everything goes well. I've never colocated or done anything like 
that, so I am afraid. I've always set up my own networks and used my own 
hosts; I don't mind being down for an hour or two a year. But keeping 
your own hosts is impossible in New Orleans. The quality of the high 
speed lines that one can find in this city are substandard. I've had 
high-speed lines in several other states and going down is normally 
somewhat rare. I've gone through several DSL and Cable Internet service 
providers, including Bell South, Covad, XO, Cox, and others in this city 
and no one can keep a line up for a whole week in a row. Sometimes, as 
I'm experiencing now, we go down several times a day for a few seconds. 
The most incredible thing is that no one seems to care. The tech support 
people around here are impervious to panic. But this is New Orleans; I 
don't think being online all the time really matters all that much.

Thanks!!

--Donnie

Thompson, James wrote:

> I noted in the ‘minutes’ from the last NewOrleans.pm meeting that you 
> were looking for some dedicated or co-location hosting options? I have 
> had a good experience with http://www.ait.com <http://www.ait.com/> 
> although the cost of support could kill you if you don’t know what 
> you’re doing. I have one FreeBSD 4.9 box running Plesk for web hosting 
> with them and will probably add another next month for test development. 
> They will install Win2K3, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat 7.x and FreeBSD 4.10. I 
> downgraded to 4.9 for plesk. The cost is $50/month for a Pentium 4 
> 2.8GHz machine with 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM and all standard Intel 
> chipset stuff (LAN, etc.) which will run Linux/BSD just fine. Just 
> thought I’d let you know. Maybe I’ll see you at the next NewOrleans.pm 
> if I get some time.
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> If you want to get back in touch with me email me at 
> jwthompson2 at gmail.com <mailto:jwthompson2 at gmail.com>
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> Later!
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> James W. Thompson, II
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