New server

Posted Feb 9, 2007 10:39 UTC (Fri) by malor (guest, #2973)
In reply to: New server by corbet
Parent article: Reader survey followup

Hosting has gotten much more reasonable than it used to be. You can rent a decent system (P4 3.0Ghz, gig of RAM, 1 7200RPM IDE) at Servermatrix for about $150/mo. They're on 100mb links, and include 1500 gigs of transfer. I think it's quite unlikely that LWN would do anywhere near that much traffic. The P4 isn't the fastest chip in the world, but it should be substantially quicker than what you have, and the chipset is Intel and well-supported. I've had issues with a couple of Debian kernels falling over on that hardware (2.6.15 was really bad), but I chalk that up to the usual Linux kernel bullshit. When they get it right, it's a solid chipset.

I think there's probably even cheaper solutions... this is just an option I'm familiar with. They have good bandwidth from what I've seen, and are fairly responsive on trouble tickets. Might be worth considering.

Get other recommendations too... I haven't sampled broadly. But I've been pretty happy with the service. (www.servermatrix.com).

(I'm not related to them in any way, other than sending them money every month.)

Another thought: if you put out the word that you're looking, someone might host you very reasonably. You're not going to be a big support or bandwidth drain, and you're deeply respected. If I ran a hosting company, I'd be thrilled to provide you a server in exchange for the occasional Editorial Mention. :)