A friend of mine has had a good experience so far with this company:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hosting
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Server




On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, JD Austin wrote:

> I've just started a company that will be creating a ton of web sites for various
> clients.  We're a statup with almost no cash so we need to keep our overhead
> low. Since we want to be able to do anything the client needs, we can't just go
> with a $10/month provider where we can't install anything.
> 
> Originally I did research and decided on Deru which was the cheapest I could
> find locally for setting up a co-located server ($25 per rack unit + $80 for 30G
> of bandwidth + cost of hardware).  We've been stalled a few months due to lack
> of funds :(
> 
> Last week I saw a banner ad on slashdot for globalservers.com
> ( http://globalservers.com/splash1.htm?link_id=3837171496&type=click ) that
> looks like just the thing we need.
> 
> Has anyone used a company like this before?
> Is this company known to be a spam haven?
> Is there a down side to using virtual private servers?
> 
> JD
> 
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