[ubuntu-uk] Broadband and hosting reccomendations

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 04/06/09 08:09, John Levin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for reccomendations for broadband suppliers and hosting.
>
> First off, I'm getting rid of Entanet (via UKFSN) as they've seen fit to
> more than double their charges! (Getting ready for long phone session to
> customer services today) Don't have cable, so looking for a
> geek-friendly adsl service.

Pass on the ISP - I have been with Pipex for ages, was bought by 
Tiscalli, now CarPhone Warehouse. So I will probably have to move soon. 
But it is a reliable service, < 8mbp/s static IP and 30GB/month for 
about £15/m.

>
> Secondly, I'm looking for a second hosting service. I use evohosting
> http://www.evohosting.co.uk/
> and am very happy with them, but in case of failure want to have (and to
> be able to reccomend to others) a secondary web/email system. Plus I'd
> like ubuntu-based servers, just for fun. Any suggestions?

We use Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk) and have been happy with them 
to-date. You can choose what image you run on your VMs (VPSs) including 
Ubuntu. They only do Linux and you get full root/ssh access + a serial 
port access for when things go fsck and you need to reboot.

HTH

Al

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