Dedicated Servers
I’ve been in the market for another dedicated server and have been shopping the big names like rackspace, serverbeach, theplanet, softlayer, etc.
Times have changed over the last 5 years! And by change I mean prices have increased a LOT! One big change in price/options is that a secondary hard drive is now an option on most systems, and so is RAID. Both options can tack on a total of anywhere from $50 to $100 MORE per-month!!! To prevent the need of hiring a data recovery specialist I like to get my servers with RAID 1 so if a drive fails it’s not the end of the world! It’s also nice because when you do cPanel backup it doesn’t backup the ENTIRE drive so if the hard drive died you would have to re-install all your software and cpanel/whm too.
My other new dual woodcrest server is SO speedy I may consider another one of those but only a single CPU as I don’t need this server to be so powerful.