[conspire] he.net woes --> seeking ISP recommendations

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> Some market research I did two years back, when SF-LUG was kicking tires
> on the virthosting subject (and eventually decided _not_ to go that way):
> 
> Linode http://www.linode.com/ $19.95/month gets you 80M RAM, 3GB disk, 
>    50GB xfer

Linode has upgraded its plans several times since then.  

http://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm lists the $19.95 plan as
300MB RAM, 10GiB disk, and 200GB/mo transfer.  The bandwidth is not a
hard limit, but you will pay overage on any month you exceed it.

> Trenden http://www.trenden.net/ $15/month gets you 64M RAM, 3GB disk, 
>    75GB xfer
> unixshell# http://www.unixshell.com/ $15/month gets you 64M RAM, 6GB disk, 
>    64GB xfer
> Xen Hosting http://www.xenhosting.com/ 
> Rimuhosting http://rimuhosting.com/ $20/month gets you 96M RAM, 4GB disk, 
>    30GB xfer
> Tummy http://www.tummy.com/Hosting/Virtual/ $25/month, 50M RAM 1.5G disk, 
>    5GB xfer

It's possible that these others have upgraded as well; but I regularly
see people in the OFTC #linode channel who are comparison shopping, and
they almost all are impressed by the Linode plans.  The only ones who
aren't are the ones who want a managed service rather than unmanaged.
Those people want a hosting provider rather than virtual machines of
their own.

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