Virtual private servers. Cost effective?

[Matthew East]

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Hiya again,

* Eric Dunbar:
> Thanks to everyone who's responded to my queries. My current setup
> isn't great but I can host my server for less than what it seems most
> VPS hosts charge. The one big advantage they have is that their
> out-going bandwidth is much higher than mine at home (80 K/sec) but,
> on-the-whole, that's acceptable. I'd like to reduce my overall energy
> consumption but that's not possible yet :-(.

Out of curiosity, what's your reason for rejecting standard shared
hosting? I've played around with a Linode server and now use shared
hosting. For me, the only difference is that you don't get root on the
latter and the former is cheaper, but that doesn't mean anything since
you can install any software locally. I run a local copy of spamassassin
to filter my email and it is beautiful.

I blogged about my experience so far with Dreamhost here:
http://www.mdke.org/?p=71

Matt
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