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Recommended dedicated provider in the Washington DC area
I am looking for someone's recommendation of a dedicated provider in the Washington DC area (Virginia, Maryland, DC area). Must be a dedicated server on a good network, CPU at least Dual L5420 or better, 16GB RAM or better, and price $35/mo or less. Only need 1 IP. Gigabit preferred but not required. Must have dedicated support staff 24/7 to handle any network outages, so please no one-man operations.
Seems hard to find one in that area at this price, but figured I'd ask. Thanks in advance.
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Do you know if they have staff, or are they a one-man operation?
@Dedispec can provide dedicated servers in WV, they share location (same DC) as RHS, but provide you with unmetered 100Mbit/s vs RHS that provides you with 5TB traffic.
Same question. Do they have 24/7 staff to handle outages, or are they a one-man operation. There are a lot of them here on Lowendtalk/box, and not what I'm looking for today.
Dedispec is certainly not a smart choice if you need production-level reliability.
RHS is good for the price, but wouldn't use them for production either.
Honestly, your budget is unrealistic for what you want.
That's what I figured, but thanks anyway.
Out of curiosity, would a more production-level provider be available for around $50/mo, or are they all like at least $90/mo?
Do you have any experience of Dedispec at Berkley Springs? as they & RHS share the location (DC) & (external/upstream) network.
Difficult to have experience with them considering that he/they ignored my contact attempt.
Anyway they certainly don't have 24/7 staff at the datacenter.
I have experience with RHS and they are good for the price, but wouldn't host anything mission critical with them.
You should start considering your choice of a decade-old processor which uses DDR2 and has been long EOL. You would get eBay-sourced crap from mamy providers in your price range.
Finding an Avoton for $50 could be possible/reasonable in the area. If you want an E3 instead, up your budget past $50.
For this setup, I'd rather deal with busted hardware than a problem network. I can prepare for a sudden server failure with live replication to another standby server. But I prefer not to deal with network blips, packet losses, and occasional slowness that often go unnoticed by me. I prefer a company proactively watching their network and responding to issues before I notice them (or one of my customers notices them) and have to open a ticket.
Yes then it would be difficult - so tagging @dedispec for email/notice.
Reason i asked is because i have a box with RHS and currently in the talks with dedispec to test a box out with them in WV.
Well, I have a little box that is only $20/mo with RHS and it's been flawless from the start. I didn't encoured any downtime. The staff, well... Jeff Martin, have been really helpfull and friendly with me. Sure, it's almost a "one man show" but at least they own the equipement AND the datacenter, witch is a big plus. I'm not running anything critical on this box but I'm sure that if I had to, it would perform great.
Second this suggestion. Great deal at that price.
BigBrainGlobal is another good provider in DC, but they're no where near that price point.
@Nyr would you mind shooting me over your ticket # or email you used so I can look into why no one ever got back to you?
Thanks for the mention @zrunner
@Dedispec it was a PM over here, but I don't care any longer.