If you don't mind hosting in the US give Known Host a try http://knownhost.com/

I've had VPS with them for several years and never a problem. The few times I've had to contact them to sort out messes I've made myself or with completely non-urgent enquiries, their tech support replies within minutes no matter the time of day.

Webhostingtalk is always a good place to read up on some real customer reviews http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Knownhost look good, ta.

In reply to a post by teabelly:

It's a toss up now between going with a linode or using valuevps and maybe going for a dedicated as they do them for £35 squids a month. So tempting to have my own server then I won't have to share with gimps mucking them up! Downtime due to my own stupidity I can live with

I would suggest looking at a dedicated server rather than vps given your requirements.

I think you're probably right Might have to bite the bullet and move to cpanel instead of staying with plesk as there is more choice of providers with cpanel.

Other alternative is this cloud idea. That seems to be more fault tolerant of hardware failures which can also knacker your uptime.

In reply to a post by teabelly:

I think you're probably right Might have to bite the bullet and move to cpanel instead of staying with plesk as there is more choice of providers with cpanel.

Other alternative is this cloud idea. That seems to be more fault tolerant of hardware failures which can also knacker your uptime.

Cpanel is pretty nice, plus core services get updated. Make sure you install lfd onto the system if you do get cpanel.!

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Yes, very good but we are on about the space, not the transit network or other brands and were not talking about something irrelevant to what you have posted.

Matt

I can't get on with cpanel. I have spent ages messing around with the demo to see whether I could get used to it but it just doesn't work how I think so it takes forever to do simple things.

I've decided to get a cloud but stick with plesk as some of the issues were down to other people's vps' making mine wonky. With the new virtualisation technology other people's servers should not beggar up mine. And it is dead easy to scale as you can add extra bandwidth, memory, disk space etc without a re provision.

I spent ages in cpanel trying to work out just how you just list out the current dns settings. I could only find add and edit. Default dns settings are also set to fixed name servers so I'd always be changing those. Couldn't see how you could add a wildcard so you could have 'ns.eachdomain.com' for example. The one useful feature was the one where it would use settings from the registrar.

In reply to a post by teabelly:

I can't get on with cpanel. I have spent ages messing around with the demo to see whether I could get used to it but it just doesn't work how I think so it takes forever to do simple things.

I've decided to get a cloud but stick with plesk as some of the issues were down to other people's vps' making mine wonky. With the new virtualisation technology other people's servers should not beggar up mine. And it is dead easy to scale as you can add extra bandwidth, memory, disk space etc without a re provision.

I spent ages in cpanel trying to work out just how you just list out the current dns settings. I could only find add and edit. Default dns settings are also set to fixed name servers so I'd always be changing those. Couldn't see how you could add a wildcard so you could have 'ns.eachdomain.com' for example. The one useful feature was the one where it would use settings from the registrar.

Not sure why you would want to change the name servers all the time.

http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/try-demo.html

try the whm demo there - should have a whole section on dns there inc dns templates.

As for cloud style services, set up cpanel dns only on server and then add servers as required