Hi all, just to add my two penneth. somebody recently pm'd me asking me who I used. Here's my response for the benefit of European users. I'ts a warts and all - honest opinion.
"I host with www.oneandone.co.uk Their datacentre is in Germany.
I have a VPS costing me £39.95 PCM comprising
40Gb Disc,
2 xs quad core 2.8Ghz sempron processors.
100Mbit/sec guaranteed bandwidth
Can't remember how much traffic - it's a big number and I've never hit limits [added later - it's actually 4000Gb]
Plesk Control Panel with license for 30 domains, unlimited subs
Virtuoso outer wrapper for restarting the server when all else fails (and for recovering from the backups)
MailEnable
Root access via remote destop
Mysql V5 and MSSQL pre loaded (never use MS so don't know what performance is like
PHP, Perl, CGI scripts - which again I never use but they are there if you want them
Many reviews and posts will say support is crap. It probably is if you don't know what you are doing, but with a VPS or dedicated, really - we should know what we are doing and support is normally a quick phone call to say - "can you restart my server"
worse case I ever had was a two day outage because some system files got screwed on the hardware node my vps was running on - but they gave me a 2 month credit to compensate, before that - three hours whilst they rebuilt a failed raid array. Before that .... nothing. I've been with them about 5 years
Some supplemental questions were then asked:
what guaranteed ram do you have? 2GB? YES - a full 2Gb not "boosted" I checked this out with 1and1 because their websites says "boosted to 2GB" which was confusing. They meant to say it was boosted to 2Gb from their previously advertised 1Gb package.
what arrangements do you have for backup of data? offsite backup? I have a double backup strategy. Using Virtuoso (which comes with the oneandone package, I can take both full and incremental backups of the entire disc "on-site" that is the backups take place in the datacentre to a different hardware node.
In addition - because I am using MySQL, I run Mysql also on my office server and use MysqlAdmin to perform hourly backups to from the vps to my office server BSV's are developed and tested locally then uploaded to the vps and imported to the live versison of Aware
do you get good performance with awareim on the vps? VPS is apparently supposed to be pretty slow as apparently AWARE needs lots of horsepower.
Exceptional. I'm running IIS for my normal websites, plus Office 2007 - which you need to run on the server if you are doing anything with word documents because the Office "engine" forms the docs before transferring them to the browser (I actually prefer Office 2003 and may switch back.)
In total, the server consumes 664Mb ram. - having 2 x Quad core semprons running at 2.8Ghz helps ....
I should add My server is windows server 2003. 1and1 also do Linux boxes as well
