Comments on: managed hosting http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/ It's all about the web Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:45:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Brad Pezzini http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/#comment-807 Brad Pezzini Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:27 +0000 http://anyhosting.com/blog/?p=28#comment-807 Nick, I've had a similar issue with 'the planet' in that they seemed reluctant to offer any information around pricing. After searching through many of the managed hosting websites I ended up going with Rackspace. They offered pricing straight away, and although they were 10% more expensive than the market they offered an unbeatable SLA including 1hr hardware replacement <24hr build time to live and truely unrivlaed support. I can thoroughly recommend them. Nick,

I’ve had a similar issue with ‘the planet’ in that they seemed reluctant to offer any information around pricing. After searching through many of the managed hosting websites I ended up going with Rackspace. They offered pricing straight away, and although they were 10% more expensive than the market they offered an unbeatable SLA including 1hr hardware replacement <24hr build time to live and truely unrivlaed support.

I can thoroughly recommend them.

]]> By: nick http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/#comment-806 nick Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:20:41 +0000 http://anyhosting.com/blog/?p=28#comment-806 Interesting, I got a pretty fast response from theplanet. Also, their customer support is great. I had to reboot the server once, and apparently it had gone into an fsck but the console wasn't working, so I had no idea what was up. Before I could even file a ticket I had a call from them on my mobile phone here in Prague letting me know their monitors had picked up that the server was offline. Pretty cool. If we get a second server I might consider going with a completely different hoting company, maybe fastservers.net. Would be nice to compare, and also to have secondary services at a completely separate host is probably good thing. Interesting, I got a pretty fast response from theplanet. Also, their customer support is great. I had to reboot the server once, and apparently it had gone into an fsck but the console wasn’t working, so I had no idea what was up. Before I could even file a ticket I had a call from them on my mobile phone here in Prague letting me know their monitors had picked up that the server was offline. Pretty cool.

If we get a second server I might consider going with a completely different hoting company, maybe fastservers.net. Would be nice to compare, and also to have secondary services at a completely separate host is probably good thing.

]]> By: Robert Helmer http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/#comment-805 Robert Helmer Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:36:21 +0000 http://anyhosting.com/blog/?p=28#comment-805 @aaron: Thanks, we're busy working out the logistics of the launch now, but I'll drop you an email. @nick - yes I did contact someone at theplanet.. they wouldn't give me pricing upfront, and kept asking for my requirements rather than giving me a quote (I was just looking at the email thread, I would send the reqs, wait a day or so, ask for status, they'd ask if the reqs had changed, I'd say no, go back to step 1 :) ). This pattern happened for a lot of them. I wanted to just do a little pilot project with a few servers, and had very detailed requirements and no time to talk on the phone with someone (so they could price me out, I'm guessing). Maybe it's just the reps I got, or I am too impatient, or something :) I am very happy with fastservers.net, but I love that there is so much competition in this space. I am definitely looking at Amazon web services, in particular EC2 and S3 for image hosting. @aaron: Thanks, we’re busy working out the logistics of the launch now, but I’ll drop you an email.

@nick - yes I did contact someone at theplanet.. they wouldn’t give me pricing upfront, and kept asking for my requirements rather than giving me a quote (I was just looking at the email thread, I would send the reqs, wait a day or so, ask for status, they’d ask if the reqs had changed, I’d say no, go back to step 1 :) ).

This pattern happened for a lot of them. I wanted to just do a little pilot project with a few servers, and had very detailed requirements and no time to talk on the phone with someone (so they could price me out, I’m guessing).

Maybe it’s just the reps I got, or I am too impatient, or something :) I am very happy with fastservers.net, but I love that there is so much competition in this space.

I am definitely looking at Amazon web services, in particular EC2 and S3 for image hosting.

]]> By: nick http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/#comment-804 nick Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:50:03 +0000 http://anyhosting.com/blog/?p=28#comment-804 i am dealing with similar growing issues at the moment with the small company i work for. we are currently in the process of migrating from some extremely overpriced managed servers at verio, to a more reasonably priced server at theplanet. did you get any quotes from theplanet? i'd be interested in what you thought of them in comparison. i didn't spend too much time choosing a new host, I just wanted something reasonable (as the verio solution was ridiculously overpriced). We have a fast server, growable space up to 2tb, lots of bandwidth, and i'm looking into amazon s3 for a scalable backup solution. -nick i am dealing with similar growing issues at the moment with the small company i work for. we are currently in the process of migrating from some extremely overpriced managed servers at verio, to a more reasonably priced server at theplanet.

did you get any quotes from theplanet? i’d be interested in what you thought of them in comparison. i didn’t spend too much time choosing a new host, I just wanted something reasonable (as the verio solution was ridiculously overpriced). We have a fast server, growable space up to 2tb, lots of bandwidth, and i’m looking into amazon s3 for a scalable backup solution.

-nick

]]> By: Aaron Phillips http://anyhosting.com/blog/2008/09/08/managed-hosting/#comment-802 Aaron Phillips Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:16:59 +0000 http://anyhosting.com/blog/?p=28#comment-802 Greetings: Thanks for the feedback! Don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions. Good feedback like this is awesome and if you have a desire to be profiled on our blog or participate in our video testimonials drop me an email. Greetings:

Thanks for the feedback! Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions. Good feedback like this is awesome and if you have a desire to be profiled on our blog or participate in our video testimonials drop me an email.

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