Dedicated hosting

[kopite]

Hey guys,

i`ve been using a virtual machine provided by bytemark for a few years now and its been great but I am looking at upping the spec and maybe going for a dedicated hosting solution.

I have been looking at cari.net but was wondering if anyone has any suggestions that they have used.
I host about 10 sites atm none of them get much traffic atm but I`m looking at 2-3 of them really taking off soon and want to get the hosting sorted before that happens.

[adam1701]

dedicated server?
... kimsufi box for £17.41 a month inc vat. i use it for other things, but if you set it up with linux it's good.

[kopite]

Looks quite cheap... Looking at
Whats their support like?

[kopite]

Looking at a couple of options atm.

One question I got though.

ATM looking at these 2 options



Now The question I have is would a 64bit CPU be better for a server than the 32 bit?

I am looking at setting up mail server, Apache, PHP mysql and then maybe some other web based things like wordpress, media wiki etc.

[Phil_P]

Looking at a couple of options atm.

One question I got though.

ATM looking at these 2 options



Now The question I have is would a 64bit CPU be better for a server than the 32 bit?

I am looking at setting up mail server, Apache, PHP mysql and then maybe some other web based things like wordpress, media wiki etc.

Only if you have greater than 4GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS running on it, and you actually intend on running applications that need that sort of memory requirements (like a huge corporate database, for example).

Otherwise, a 64-bit processor is ostensibly no faster than a 32-bit processor (or a 64-bit processor running a 32-bit OS for that matter) for common server tasks such as those you cite.

Assuming you don't need more that 4GB ram, the question is, regardless of 32-bit or 64-bit, do you need the extra performance of the C2D over the P4?

[kopite]

Well one of the websits in particular is going to be making a lot of use of mysql to populate pages.

Im aiming for 2-3 of the sites hosted on the box to start doing well plus there are the exim server I would also be hosting. ATM it does virus and spam checking and grey list checking but I`d want to make the spam checking a bit more meatier...

[alexkoon]

I don't think 64bit even with high MySQL usage will have a massive difference compared to 32bit - unless it chews a lot of memory and hence going beyond 4Gb. Exim is quite lightweight as well.

Also serving web pages to users isn't latency sensitive so the minor increase in performance wouldn't be noticeable - and you will probably be bound to bandwidth more than CPU/Memory.

However - I have no real world figures to give a comparison but I have run a 32 bit Debian system for a few years with apache, exim, mysql as well as other things etc and now have been using a 64bit Gentoo with 4GB and in terms of performance - I haven't noticed anything significant.

[DR]

Makes little difference unless you have a lot of ram and a lot of load - HEXUS use' FreeBSD on most of our servers and they all all multi socket multiple gigabytes of ram - however even if we are running less than 4GB ram we would still use it for pure consistency....

[kopite]

Ive found another hosting company that seem a bit cheaper and have been recomended by a friend.
Dedicated Server | Windows Dedicated Servers | Server Cluster | Linux Dedicated Servers

looking at their site I could get a core 2 duo with a gig of ram 4mbps connection that is burstable to 100 mbps.

The only thing is to get debian on it would cost an extra 75 dollars. Its free for redhat. They have advised that this is becuas they have a ghost image of redhat so its easy to do.

The thing is I have never really used redhat. is it any good for hosting or would I be better paying the extra for the debian.

Also I have been looking at ovh.co.uk They dont charge the installation fees and debian is standard. has anyone had any experience with them?