Hi, What would be your recommendations for dedicated server? I'm taking a look at hostgator, any experience? I will need a dedicated very soon, right now, on shared (at GoDaddy), site goes down (service unavailable) if I get over 150 concurent users. BTW Server will be used for free online (flash) games, so a lot of bandwith needed and speed (downloading files 1-3 MB) is important... Cheers, N.
Right now, I am with http://www.wiredtree.com for 2 servers. This is also the best I had in dedi. They also configure their network, and my spam was reduced by 90%, I hardly received any spam emails. At first I ws worried not receiving any spam, but after 6 months, no one ever complained having sent me an email that I did not recieved. UPTIME: 100% and SUPPORT: almost instant and always right. I have used http://www.beachcombers.net with success also, very impress.
go for volumedrive.com i have 2 server from them and i had no problems at all. they are quick on replying email but depends on your time... i have Intel Celeron-L Conroe 1.6 Ghz 4gb ram centos 100mbps port capped on 3kgb bw/month but you can choose there for unmettered 10mbps. and cpanel i paid one time payment for 180 but i pay for for $73 only/month
Yes, I agree with you that wiredtree is a good company Alternatively, check out these companies as well that I'm using and satisfied with it: www.netdepot.com (great hardware & network) www.softlayer.com (alternative to Netdepot) www.nocster.com (for the vast amount of bandwidth, same datacenter as VolumeDrive) Cheers.
How many bandwidth do you need? We host for a flash game server too, and it's using around 2000GB/month. Is this enough for you? Or you need more?
Softlayer for sure if you have the cash. The private VPN connection is amazing. I've got a server at The Planet as well, tons of bandwidth and no complaints so far. If you want a VPS I can also recommend SolarVPS, again great service.
Tnx for all sugestions. BTW I need windows server with PHP also installed. I use cca about 1500 GB on one site and about 500 GB on second. One site has about 25K uniques daily and second about 3K and raising quickly, so I can pay, but anyway doesn't want to throw money away. I also prefer known companies which will not go down or bancrupt just like that.
25K unique daily ~ 17 connections per second. It's not much. A Core2duo box can handle it. However, why you need Windows meanwhile running PHP? Do you have ASP, .NET version? MSSQL?