Short answer: Virtual dedicated gives you your own virtualized machine; you get root, sometimes you can choose the distro of choice, you can configure basically the whole thing. I've had decent luck with WiredTree and Ubiquity. The latter has fairly good support but the uptime has been mediocre. The former gives you a lot of kit for the money. -----Original Message----- From: Josef Lowder To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 1:23 pm Subject: Fwd: Virtual Dedicated Hosting Recommendations I sent this a while ago but it doesn't seem to have gone through, so trying again ... Subject: Re: Virtual Dedicated Hosting Recommendations > AZ Pete cactusfamily.com> writes: > > I'm getting increasingly fed up with my current hosting provider > > (GoDaddy) for my virtual dedicated box. While their support is stellar > > for my shared hosting box, they're virtual dedicated support is quite poor I don't know the difference between "virtual dedicated" and regular web hosting, but I recently switched my web hosting to BlueHost.com and it has been excellent. 24/7 tech support by toll free 800#, live chat, and email with unlimited *everything* band-width, file space, etc. for $142 for 3 years. 100% up time. No worries. 100% US based servers (Utah) and 100% American English tech support. (No off-shore, out-sourced, can't hear or understand them problems.) What does "virtual dedicated" hosting give you that is better than that? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss