New Dedicated Hosting
Since 1and1 threw me off their servers for using too much CPU, and Dreamhost is beginning to complain that I’m using about 5 to 6 times their daily limit of 1 cpu-hour, I purchased a dedicated server hosting package from Cari.net, which seemed to have the best prices around–their $200 setup fee notwithstanding. For $79 / month I’m getting the following specs:
- P4 32bit 3 GZ w/ 2MB L1 and w/o HT
- 1 GB DDR400 RAM
- 160 GB SATA
- 1.2 TB Bandwidth
- 4 MB/s sustained on 100Mbs Ethernet
- Fedora Core 4 Linux and Plesk
The specs are pretty sweet–I’m particularily happy about the 1 GB of RAM. If I were buying a server, I’d go for dual Xeons or Opterons, but for my little website this should be more than enough. I’m also going to be rolling out a new mega-site in the next month or so, as well as a total upgrade to this old, tired theme. Both of these will be lightning fast. And, since I’ll be consuming only my server’s CPU, I can probably turn off caching and enjoya more responsive Wordpress installation.
Now, this isn’t anything against Dreamhost, which rocks for small websites. Currently they’re out of dedicated servers, so I have to look somewhere else. MediaTemple was too expensive for a real rack, and their virtual server offerings were too vague for my taste about how many users per dual-xeon system there were.
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on May 3rd, 2006 at 3:41 pm
I enjoyed reading your post about widening your web services. I’m in the same boat. 1and1 doesn’t offer the support I need (call in, if they can’t help you in three questions, then you go to the next level, which can take two days to hear from them). Dreamhost has gone to heroic efforts to keep my site going, but at 490 CPU minutes, that generosity won’t last for long. I feel like a need “hause” and am shopping. I check out cari.net.
Thanks for sharing!
– dave –
on May 5th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
nice specs but the processor, mate, i heard dat p4’s are the worst processors ever…isnt AMDFX64 meant to kick ***?
on June 4th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
hmm, I had never heard of them before you mentioned cari in this post. Before I’ve had EV1 (the best), and serverbeach, but I’m going to try out cari for a year