Floren
Well-known member
I totally agree with you. Personally, I never liked a virtual solution, you are constraint to their standards and cannot upgrade the OS or sometimes even install a more recent package. Not my cup of tea.This leaves 3 final deciding factors when shopping for host, which are not generic.
1) Dependability and support (do they actually deliver on their claim and do they support you)
2) Ram
3) Price
Now there are millions of web host out there. But as you know, only about 1/2 (we could argue less at 25%) of them actually do provide #1. But that still leaves thousands of other web host remaining to shop from. Which leaves the last two.... Ram and price.
$79.95 - 2GB of Ram - linode.com
For this price, I could get a low end or mid range dedicated server.... Depending on where I go.
As you said very well, for $79 I could get a real box with better specs than what they offer at linode:
CORE 2 DUO E4300 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 2 x 160GB SATA 7200RPM with 5000GB Traffic 100Mbps
http://iweb.com/dedicated/clearance