Digitalocean.com looks promising.  Once you configure your VM is there a control panel for configuring your Vhost & email accounts?  Or do you have to do it manually? Thanks!! Keith On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:00 AM, Jason Poulter wrote: Digitalocean.com if want to manage your own box On February 18, 2014 3:32:44 AM MST, Nathan England wrote: >Howdy, > >I have been with DreamHost for many years and have enjoyed their awesome >control panel (I hate cpanel), their fast response to issues, and the >help they've given me over the years with dumb questions. I have several >dozen sites hosted with them on a shared hosting plan. None of them are >money making sites, nonetheless, it is embaressing when someone tries to >get to a site and it is dog slow. > >It seems now every week I have to submit a support ticket for them to >"restart my apache service" so my sites respond quickly again. Though, >this only lasts a short time and they are slow again. > >I guess it is time that I look elsewhere for hosting support. I don't >want to spend the money on a VPS because my basic needs are met with a >shared account, and no doubt I get better resources than a 300MB ram VPS >would provide, unless the shared server is over-loaded, and VPS's larger >than 300MB of ram are more than I am willing to spend. > >I despise GoDaddy because of their advertising practices (I actually >respect women and don't care to treat them all like a piece of meat or >porn stars). Several friends have recently dumped HostGator because >their shared accounts are too slow. > >Any recommendations? > >P.S. A commercial account with my ISP and my server would be ideal for >all of my needs, but being up here in the sticks my ISP wants an arm and >a leg to provide more than 3MB/768K speeds, which are not realistic. > >Thanks! > >________________________________ > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss