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= Who's the best dedicated server host for media websites? =

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Hi,

I'm in the process of moving my media website (image sharing, video sharing, etc) from VPS to Dedicated.

To make the long story short, I'm currently at Future Hosting. They are great with their VPS and have excellent customer service. Their dedicated server line is very affordable and they offer impressive specs with the price (no free CPanel, though). I've had Hostgator VPS and shared hosting before. Although I've enjoyed their customer service (top notch), they had quite a bit of downtime towards the last year or 2.

Anyway, can anyone recommend me a fast, reliable dedicated hosting company (specially for media websites)? Price is important, but can be negated if the company is top notch.

You can bring your cost way down if you buy the server outright and just pay for colo. If you search ebay for "2U Supermicro" (for example) you can find very decent previous-gen servers for a few hundred bucks and then you can colo somewhere like fdcservers.net and get super cheap unmetered bandwidth. You'll have to pay for parts if something dies, but it can make sense in the long run depending on your usage/tech abilities.

My recommendation would be to use a simple VPS provider for your website and use a CDN provider.

A cPanel licenses costs $20 a month directly from cPanel. You can get a $10 monthly VPS from providers like Linode or Digital Ocean.

For the CDN, the pricing is based on usage normally. Amazon has a service called Cloud Front: httpaws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

The largest CDN provider I know of is Akamai, which Rackspace uses for their Cloud Files product.

Alternatively you could build out your own CDN with a provider like Linode or DigitalOcean, you would just need to have DNS provide IP addresses based on location. I threw together some scripts that will setup PowerDNS to have a php backend to process DNS queries. You could use it to pragmatically decide which server content is served from based on location: httpsgithub.com/Igknighted/Router_DNS

Hope this helps.

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