FN-FORUM: Dedicated linux hosting query

date posted 20th August 2003 20:40

Hi there,

A quickish query, I have a website which is currently hosted for about=20
=A3300 a year (shared server). It has recently come up for renewal and I=20
received an invoice for next year - same price etc.

Today is the last day on last years contract, tomorrow is the new one which=
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I have yet to pay, and today I received an email from the company, saying=20
that I have reached the upper limit of their current package and lately, it=
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has begun to use more than its allocated number of connections; at times it=
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has used over 100 simultaneous connections blah blah. I should reduce the=
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connections or consider a dedicated server.

Their dedicated server starts at a scary =A32250 / year which is a huge leap=
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in cost, which I'm not best pleased about. However I knew that the time to=
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upgrade was inevitable. My current bandwidth is about 10Gig a month. The=
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limit of the dedicated server is about 40Gig a month.

So, to the point at last...
*Does this seem like a reasonable upgrade or is it massive overkill? I=20
don't like the cost, but I've had a quick look round and it doesn't seem to=
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bad, but I need to have a more extensive look, I could have done with more=
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notice from them!
*Also there was a website which was basically a forum about web hosting (in=
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the UK?) I seem to remember, any ideas?

PS The website is on a linux box, and uses all the usual - apache/php/mysql=
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and gets about 10Gig/month traffic, that's basically it.

Many thanks in advance,

Bill