I run a very small site with 34sp.com based out Manchester, UK . Been with them for 8+ years. No problems at all. They use Plesk and offer pretty good deals on VPS (among other things). Check them out here:
http://www.34sp.com/vps-hosting

Cheers Norm

i used plesk for 4+ years (dedi and vps) and i've now been using cpanel on a dedicated server for two years. features wise, cpanel will always be ahead of plesk and it's so much faster too.

yes it is a bit silly to have two different interfaces, one for the admin and one for users, default NS can be set up per user but the user has to be a reseller, everything's simple once you know how.

i'm not going to suggest vps.net because they're over your budget and the last time i looked there were no London nodes left which is stupid.

I should switch to cpanel really but I have just found a good deal on a cloud with 1and1 and they offer plesk as standard so I may try them.

Cpanel is the grown up control panel but I get more done with the fisher price plesk

I have to say, I see that as pretty expensive.. Their top package, "Supersize VPS" is £59.95 a month, with 1TB data transfer.

We rent a dedicated server in Germany. Cost is �49 a month, started with 1TB of traffic, got upgraded to 2TB a while back and recently to 5TB data transfer a month (not that we ever come close).. Machine has 2GB of RAM and 2x1600GB drives in a RAID 1 pair.

In reply to a post by Spasch:

I have to say, I see that as pretty expensive.. Their top package, "Supersize VPS" is £59.95 a month, with 1TB data transfer.

We rent a dedicated server in Germany. Cost is �49 a month, started with 1TB of traffic, got upgraded to 2TB a while back and recently to 5TB data transfer a month (not that we ever come close).. Machine has 2GB of RAM and 2x1600GB drives in a RAID 1 pair.

Exactly why we won't sell vps - might as well either stay with reseller hosting or go to dedicated servers .. VPS is a fudge and will always be that

Really?

We'd do VPS that can grow bigger than a dedicated box without having to loose anything, or restore data on a complete hardware change.

Managed VPS or VPDCs are good business for us at the moment, even more than dedicated.

Matt

Edited by uno (Thu 05-Aug-10 16:48:11)

In reply to a post by uno:

Really?

We'd do VPS that can grow bigger than a dedicated box without having to loose anything, or restore data on a complete hardware change.

Managed VPS or VPDCs are good business for us at the moment, even more than dedicated.

Matt

We say its a fudge because vps is only as good as the vps software and ultimately it is that from a tech view point.

I see, I would agree to an extent and there are so many players in the the market with some better than others.

We've used VZ for years but have recently made the switch the Xen-based simply because of the high availability it offers as well as the protection from other VMs.

Matt

go for the small hosts, the large ones are awful..

I host a very large 200 user/peak website and never get any complaints of slowdowns etc with lots of spare VPS capacity left!

avoid cloud. 9 times out of 10 you will be competing hugely for I/O bandwidth as the SAN's and backend network is never up to the job (look at amazon cloud for instance!)