I need a VPS to host a couple projects I'm working. Several of the projects in my pipeline right now involve web spidering, so unmetered downstream is pretty much a necessity, and generous CPU/memory allocations would be nice, while I don't anticipate a lot of upstream traffic immediately.

One of the applications is going into production fairly shortly here, so reliability is something of a concern, but the application is not high priority to my client and I don't believe they'd be willing to pay too much to guarantee high availability.

So, if you folks could kindly recommend a few providers to consider and/or any to certainly avoid I would be much obliged.

11/18/2008 12:57:01 PM

Dreamhost PS or Slicehost are both pretty good. I have dreamhost right now, and I it at 256M guarantted memory, 512M burstable. (~25/month).

If you choose to use dreamhost, PM me and I will give you a discount referral code.

11/18/2008 12:59:47 PM

i use http://www.linode.com

it's pretty amazing

11/18/2008 1:08:04 PM

this thread is relevant to my interests

11/18/2008 1:38:10 PM

Linode looks pretty sweet, but neither Linode nor Slicehost appear to differentiate between upstream/downstream bandwidth metering or even pricing on their website, which will probably exclude them from consideration.

DreamHost appears to be the best option right now with their "unlimited" disk and bandwidth deal, so unless Linode or Slicehost get back to me in the next little bit to confirm that downstream is unmetered I'm going to have to go with them.

EDIT: As I feared, neither Slicehost nor Linode appears to acknowledge the fact that they get downstream practically for free and want to charge me full upstream prices for downstream usage. Shame, I didn't want to have to deal with the lack of root w/ DreamHost

[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 2:36 PM. Reason : .]

11/18/2008 2:18:44 PM

how much web spidering are you doing? i mean, you can download a lot of webpages in 100GB.

11/18/2008 4:21:31 PM

downstream bandwidth isn't free, son

granted, it shouldn't be weighted the same as upstream bandwidth, but still...

maybe they factor that into their prices from a cost-recovery standpoint

11/18/2008 4:24:42 PM

Many of the colo plans I've seen include unmetered downstream, and most hosted apps are extremely asynchronous with probably an order of magnitude more upstream traffic than downstream. The pipes are generally all synchronous, and I said "practically free," which is fairly accurate since the downstream half of the pipe is being effectively subsidized by the upstream demand. I'm not necessarily looking for unmetered downstream, but I'm damn sure not paying upstream prices for downstream usage

[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : oops wrong window, ohwell]

11/18/2008 5:10:06 PM

well if anyone needs a custom vps or something let me know. i can provide linux vps that matches linode pricing

11/18/2008 6:00:23 PM

http://www.slicehost.com

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11/21/2008 10:07:08 PM