Reseller web hosting.

Ok, a colleague and me run a small web developing / hosting company, we are running in to trouble, that we're contantly exceeding our monthly bandwidth limits, we've increased our limits twice already this year, we know which sites are responsible and they're paying up no issue, but our current host is starting to look expensive and as our renewal is due, I think its time to look elsewhere.

Now after reading up about VPS servers I've had a look and we could save quite a bit of money by moving to one of these.

Anyone here using a VPS webhost at all? WebFusion are the company I have in mind http://www.webfusion.co.uk/virtual-private-servers/vps.php
Would appicate anyones opinion and or expeience of using these systems, I like the idea of being in control of the server, doing updates, restarts and all of that, just like I do at work, so that doesn't phase me at all.

thanks.

 

we use a similar set up in the states, also on poweredge servers, we host our entire website and user forums on them, so that hits about 30gig of transfer per month,and we also host our business critical apps on them as well, though not on the same units obviously..

we get a good 100k+ page hits per month and host about 100gig of streaming video at any one time, so the stuff get trafficked and works.

it's reasonably cost effective, very robust and the IT guys have no issues with it. Remote or local servers, it doesn't make a rats ass of difference apart from not being able to pull the plug...

 

how about these guys?
http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv/
dont have any personal experience, just found the site while on my travels around the net, marked for future reference.

 

Hi, have a look at http://www.fusednetwork.com

Been with them for nearly a year. Hardly any downtime, and great support.

Graham.

 

Ok, thanks for those examples but they are WAAYY out of my price range, I'm not thinking of a dedicated server, VPS maybe but not dedicated. Ok any others sub £250 a year, reseller or VPS systems

 

I have a reseller account here for my various sites: http://www.csnewmedia.co.uk

 

Are you sure a dedicated server wouldn't make more sense?

The extra cost (bear in mind I'm talking less than £500 per annum for dedicated server with 100MB burst connection and 3TB+ per month of data transfer), would allow you to host far more so could prove an investment. Thoughts?