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Dedicated Servers

Posted on June 3, 2007 by DevelopmentNow

The A-lister for dedicated servers is Rackspace, a managed hosting provider I’m always happy to recommend. Great support & service. The one “downside” is that their price reflects their quality. For cheaper dedicated boxes, you have to sift through hundreds … Continue reading →

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VPS Hosting

Posted on May 30, 2007 by DevelopmentNow

VPS Hunt I’ve been looking into VPS hosting a bit more and found a few well-recommended providers: ServInt LiquidWeb Zone.net PowerVPS Hostmaven MediaTemple’s Grid-Service and Dedicated Virtual services. RimuHosting ServInt especially seems to get a lot of kudos, but I know … Continue reading →

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Are Virtual Servers Right for Your Applications?

Posted on January 21, 2007 by DevelopmentNow

A question came up recently on a mailing list I’m on about virtual machines for production applications. I’ve used virtual servers for web & database apps before, but only for dev/qa purposes. It made it much easier to go through deployment … Continue reading →

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When will my hard drive fail?

Posted on November 20, 2006 by DevelopmentNow

…or, why should I get RAID? Like I said before, if you’re getting a dedicated server for web hosting, you should get RAID. Just get it. But if you really want to know why, keep reading. How likely is my … Continue reading →

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Dedicated Server Plans

Posted on November 20, 2006 by DevelopmentNow

I was reading about NewsHutch, yet another web-based RSS aggregator. Although it looks nice. Anyhow, their blog post about looking for a new services yielded some suggestions on hosting plans. You can skim through the comments and see. I’ve personally worked with … Continue reading →

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