Ask HN: Dedicated hosting?

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I definitely see the value in services like Slicehost/Linode but scaling up to larger plans for such services is basically the same cost as renting out a dedicated server. If I'm going to pay $300+/month I want the box to myself.

Does anyone out there know of any good dedicated server providers? After some googling I'm finding so many it's a little hard to sift through all the usual fluff.

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I've been with DataPipe (http://www.datapipe.com) for the past 7 years, and I highly recommend them. They offer basic colocation through fully managed hosting. Very bright, competent staff, and they've always stood by their SLAs without giving me grief.

I also have dedicated servers at ServerBeach. I haven't had a problem, but I find the turnaround time is sometimes unreasonably long.

http://serverbeach.com and http://layeredtech.com are both one I currently use. Like another commenter noted, ServerBeach sometimes takes a while to respond, but the same server is over $100/month cheaper with them than at LayeredTech. On the other hand, the Cedar Falls facility that LayeredTech runs is freakin' awesome.

I recently went with http://atlantic.net after a few weeks of researching. So far service has been top notch and I have no complaints. Feel free to email for details.

I have been a customer of ServerBeach (http://www.serverbeach.com/) since their early days back in 2002 I believe. Always been good and their support has been top notch, both in times of software and hardware issues -- I once had a HDD go berserk on me.

I am however slowly moving to a smaller and cheaper Linode plan, but that's only because I don't need the bigger stuff anymore.

Highly recommend http://m5hosting.com - top notch technical people and so far has been very reliable.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is a good place to get an answer to this question

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