Debian Servers

DaBeeeenster · 30th March 2004

Hi There,

I'm looking for a decent hosting firm that can provide me (ideally) with a Debian server. It seems that most people offer Redhat, which I would rather stay away from. Dependency hell/RPM nastiness is not the sort of thing I am after - I want the power of apt backed up by the debian package database. The other areas I am looking for strength in are:

- Hardware support responsiveness
- Network quality

I am an experienced admin, so management and software support are not so important.

Can anyone recommend me a good firm? Or, if anyone works for a company that could provide me with a quote, that would be great. Looking for something around the 2Ghz/512MB Ram/20GB per month bandwidth area.

Thanks,
Ben

markcastle · 30th March 2004

KDA are experts with Debian i believe.. http://www.kdawebservices.com - Karl on these forums runs it. I'm pretty sure you won't find a bad review of KDA anywhere.

robk · 30th March 2004

Quote:

Or, if anyone works for a company that could provide me with a quote

Can this be moved to the Requests Forum please so that we can make offers?

DaBeeeenster · 30th March 2004

Yeah, sorry, can someone move this please?

Andrew · 30th March 2004

Thread moved

Maff · 30th March 2004

Hello Ben,

PoundHost Internet Services can provide you with a Debian server as below. We host a number of Debian machines, as it is becoming more and more popular.
Server setup would be to your exact requirements (partitions and packages etc)

Server Spec:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 2.8Ghz
512MB DDR RAM
80GB 7200rpm HDD
200GB Monthly transfer
6 IP Addresses
24h Support
Free Reboots
Large stocks of hardware replacement available
Based in our own Maidenhead DC

£10 Setup
£89 per month

The PH-Network
PoundHost Internet (Full RIPE member, AS29550) operates a Cisco Powered, redundant BGP network in diverse locations. We take full internet transit from Level3 Communications and Pipex Communications, as well as direct peering from ClaraNET, Nildram, Telewest, Microsoft, Hurricane Electric and many more.

The above servers will be based in our own UK (Maidenhead) data centre. We operate our own fibre direct into London Docklands, with additional transit at both locations. This also allows us to offer flexible Disaster Recovery (DR) options.

For pings/traceroutes please use our tool at: http://support.poundhost.co.uk/cgi-bin/nph-trace.pl

If you would like more details or further information, please feel free to contact me.

Best Regards,

Matthew.

samtam · 30th March 2004

Hello Ben
Infinity-Hosting.net would like to offer you a
AMD XP 2Ghz
512MB DDR Ram
80GB Hardisk Space
20GB of monthly transfer

£0 setup
£69.99 per month

Please email back for some more info admin@infinity-hosting.net

edb49 · 31st March 2004

Ben,

We recently switched from Redhat to Debian as our preferred distro of choice, and now we won't install anything *but* Debian except for managed server clients. We're also running a special offer at the moment which I think would be suitable for your needs:

Intel Celeron 2.4ghz
512mb DDR RAM
80gb 7200rpm HDD
Debian Stable (2.4.18 kernel)
50gb bandwidth/month
£99 setup
£59/month
(all ex VAT)

If you want a beefier system, we can upgrade you to a 2.67ghz P4 and 1024mb DDR for just £10/month extra.

TDMWeb · 31st March 2004

How's CPanel/WHM on Debian coming along? Cpanel.net shows it as still in beta. Anyone using the beta and care to say how it's performing?

DaBeeeenster · 31st March 2004

Hi,

Right well I'm about to put an order into the nice people at KDA. Thanks for all the replies.

Ben

Andrew · 31st March 2004

KDA (as Mark said) run a tight ship, you shouldnt have any problems with them

racksense · 1st April 2004

Good choice Ben.

edb49 · 1st April 2004

KDA is a good choice Ben. If you have any further opportunities/requirements for servers we'd be very happy to quote.