Good but reasonabley priced dedicated hosting?

11 years ago

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Anton543 11 years ago

Originally Posted by kpmedia

Contact Futurehosting.

There is another one called WP Engine. They are not dedicated but there seem to be some good reviews about them, but are also very expensive.

By the way, if hosted on a dedicated server, does it mean the hosting company will no longer help with small server issues, as they might/do on a shared hosting account.
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CyberAlien

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Anton543

Are there any reasonably priced dedicated hosting based in the US. Hostgator is some $200 a month, which is rather expensive. Do you guys know the price charged by other well known companies offering good dedicated hosting packages? $100 to $120 a month would be reasonable.

Keep in mind their pricing also includes 24/7 support which a lot of companies offering dedicated servers will bill you for separately.

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Neil Morgan

11 years ago

Check out Liquid Web. Servers start at $189 and include the most knowledgable support you'll find.

Still outside your budget maybe though?

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Neil

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Anton543

11 years ago

Guys, can you please help out on this. What's the difference between shared and dedicated when it comes to support from the hosting account? Would Hostgator offer the same help to their dedicated account holders as they do the shared customers? Are the sites essentially run the same. If there is a major issue, say, site has gone down, would you be required to sort it out yourself or get a coder do it, or would this be done by the host?

In other words, if someone moves from shared Hostgator to dedicated Hostagtor, would the expert the site to run in exactly the same ways as far cpanel login, account support, etc. Otherwise its a bit strange. You end up paying 20 times normal monthly cost and end up with less support.

My thinking is this, I should migrate to dedicated for 1 or 2 months and see if there are genuine benefits in terms of faster page load, higher traffic and so on. If its the same, perhaps I might get back to the shared account.

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natf

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Anton543

In other words, if someone moves from shared Hostgator to dedicated Hostagtor, would the expert the site to run in exactly the same ways as far cpanel login, account support, etc. Otherwise its a bit strange. You end up paying 20 times normal monthly cost and end up with less support.

I don't know how Hostgator's dedicated plans work, but as far as the 20x cost for less support, that's not entirely accurate.

When you get a dedicated server, you're essentially renting your own computer that's located in the hosting company's data center. You have complete control over it, and far more resources than you get with shared hosting.

Shared hosting is configured pretty much the same for all the users on a given server. And they're limited in some ways to avoid causing problems for other users, or taking up too many resources on the machine.

You don't have those limitations on a dedicated box. But the tradeoff is that there's a lot more management required.

If you get a fully managed plan, it's all generally handled by the hosting company but that's why you pay more - the work they do on your server is strictly for your benefit. It can't be amortized over dozens (sometimes hundreds) of users on the same server.

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micksss

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Anton543

Guys, can you please help out on this. What's the difference between shared and dedicated when it comes to support from the hosting account? Would Hostgator offer the same help to their dedicated account holders as they do the shared customers? Are the sites essentially run the same. If there is a major issue, say, site has gone down, would you be required to sort it out yourself or get a coder do it, or would this be done by the host?

You are looking for a managed dedicated server as apposed to an un-managed dedicated server. Hostgator has fully managed dedicated servers. If you are sure you require a dedicated server there are plenty of providers that offer managed servers for less.

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Rbtmarshall

11 years ago

You should contact their live chat customer support, they're pretty helpful and it seems you have alot of questions.

http://support.hostgator.com/

Are you sure you need a dedicated server?

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run

11 years ago

It's different from Host to Host basis. As Hostgator, they are providing fully managed dedicated server with full support; therefore, there is no different between shared and dedicated support at HostGator.

Guys, can you please help out on this. What's the difference between shared and dedicated when it comes to support from the hosting account? Would Hostgator offer the same help to their dedicated account holders as they do the shared customers?

As stated above all of the issue related to the server problem, they will do resolve you but not the issue related to your own installed scripts or sites.

Are the sites essentially run the same. If there is a major issue, say, site has gone down, would you be required to sort it out yourself or get a coder do it, or would this be done by the host?

They do provide you the WHM/cPanel as well, so you will be able to managed your backend the same as on shared plan with more features. You'll get all the support from them with dedicated resources which is more than shared plan.

In other words, if someone moves from shared Hostgator to dedicated Hostagtor, would the expert the site to run in exactly the same ways as far cpanel login, account support, etc. Otherwise its a bit strange. You end up paying 20 times normal monthly cost and end up with less support.

It's not literally the same with shared plan because you'll have maximum dedicated resources that is not likely as shared plan. IMO, you should migrated to VPS first better than dedicated and see if it suit your need.

My thinking is this, I should migrate to dedicated for 1 or 2 months and see if there are genuine benefits in terms of faster page load, higher traffic and so on. If its the same, perhaps I might get back to the shared account.

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kpmedia

11 years ago

HostGator is a shared host, and a not great one at that.
Don't use them for VPS or dedicated, as those are "me too" services from them
Get a good company that specializes in it.
Futurehosting was my suggestion. LiquidWeb was another good suggestion.

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rickhodge

11 years ago

Like what I see so far. How much is hosting here??

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yakim1

11 years ago

I don't host with Hostgator but they do have some attractive prices. But when I compared their dedicated servers to what I have at GVO it pretty much match Hostgators highest priced server and at the same price.

There is one thing that you should look for in a dedicated server. Make sure they are running a Raid5 configuration. This is where the server has 3 hard drives and the data is equally spread on all hard drives. So when one drive fails it is just replaced and the data is automatically reconstructed by the other 2 drives. The likely hood of all drives failing at the same time would be extremely rare.

This is to make sure you never lose your data from a hard drive failure.

I found that support is better when you have a dedicated server.

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Steve Yakim

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kpmedia

11 years ago

RAID-10 is four drives.
RAID-1 is two.
Either works in a dedicated server for yourself. 1 is cheaper.
10 is best for hosts with multi customers on a box.
Don't use SATA. It has a single point of fail.

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