A few words about hosting again, this time about JaguarPC
During last two years I have been jumping from one hosting company to another and actually I've got pretty tired of that. Through all this time my own personal development in the field of internet money making was actively progressing especially during last half a year, resulting in a very comfortable state, when the sites I am dealing with are finally able to pay for themselves, so I have decided that these sites can afford themselves something better.
Cyber Ultra Network was the best hosting so far and still is, their price/performance level was superb, so I am still recommending them to everybody who is searching for a good shared inexpensive hosting... It has a lot of features and still not expensive (3.95$/month)
As I needed more control and also perfect uptime (say, 99.99% a year), the idea of some good VPS hosting was always flying above me, so during last three months I was actively researching this area of internet.
That wasn't an easy task - the market is full of VPS hosting providers!
Another thing is that I had no idea what kind of difficulties I could ran into after I would transfer my sites to VPS, but man, sooner or later it had to happen! So after a lot of research there was a winner
And the winner was the JaguarPC Hosting Company and their VPS discovery plan.
They are affordable, they had mostly good recommendations and what I liked the most, they have their own helping community! This is the only web hosting company I have seen, that has this feature.
The last drop for me was the promotion they had for the last week of august, which I almost missed, there was only two days left but yes, that has really made the final drop.
Originally for the price 19.97$ per month you get fully managed service, 10Gb of space on hard drive, 150Gb bandwidth, 128Mb RAM and 100% uptime guarantee.
The promotional package was a "little" better: 192Mb RAM, 20 Gb HDD and two free months. Impressive? I thought so too, so I decided to try and if something goes wrong they have 30 days moneyback guarantee.
First two weeks I was playing a bit here and there, trying the shiny new VPS, exploring plesk panel and checking whether I could do at least the same I could do in my shared hosting account.
The overall impression is like you own your own server somewhere there on the other side of the world (I live in Europe). You can do whatever you like and nobody on the same physical server hosted together with your account can influence you either by memory, bandwidth or even processor. The response time comparing with shared hosting is superb. Database speed is unbelievable. I am hosting a number of Drupal sites including this one and I can say they are flying now!
By default JaguarPC gives you 3 dedicated IPS, and you can do anything with them! Typically one IP is for hosting and the other two are for your own private name servers. That was something new for me. With the private name servers you can do any DNS operations including setting all DNS records (A, MX, etc) and even changing their life time, very useful when you plan some big change!
That is the power, I personally think that I can not live without anymore!..
I have moved all my sites to this VPS hosting and so far the functionality, quality and also support team were very good. If I exclude the downtime caused by my own lack of DNS knowledge the sites have had 100% uptime.
If you liked this VPS review and want to try yourself in "god mode" :) My recommendations!. You'll definitely like it!
Updated. They have a promotion again! It is even better than the package I currently have. It includes: 25 GB diskspace, 300 MB bandwidth, double guaranteed RAM (256 MB) for -10% of price ($17.97 /month), (I am talking about beginner's package, there are more). The promotion expires pretty soon, so try it now, especially if you're new to VPS! (Use JaguarPC coupon code "VPS10YRS")
Please feel free to ask questions, as the person who has learned something a month ago will answer them more enthusiastically than the one that had been using VPS for years! :)
wonderful!
i've been searching for some intro words like these, thanks a lot for the article!
thats a damn good vps hosting!
it is also my first vps, so the overall feeling is very much like yours: superfast! simply incomparable with shared hosting.
a question: they've sent me three ips, one is meant for physical hosting, the other two for private name servers. is there any reason not to use the other two for hosting also? i mean, if i get ddos attack on one of them, or some other shit happens, there other two will still be functioning, any ideas?
i think so
Hey Cribble :)
I don't think that it's wrong to use all the IPs you've been given, as a hosting. I do :)
Maybe in theory it is not very good to have hosting together with a virtual private name server's IP. Probably DDOS attack could make your private name servers out of order and then ALL your sites will be down. But I wander what's the possibility of that... Especially if we're not microsoft or google
running dual DNS servers
Hi There,
Great article. At the moment, I'm exactly where you were a couple months ago. :-)
Quick question: i've read tutorials on setting up a secondary DNS server, and the configuration is slightly different there. Were you able to do that?
Analogously with how a webserver can respond differently depending on the hostname it was called on, are you able to get the DNS server to respond differently that way? Or... did you just set up a primary and it automatically responds to both DNS IP addresses the same way?
regards and thanks!
all the defaults
I think that functionality you are talking about is already included in the name server's software. When you type a domain name in your browser, it first finds the domain (let's say, registered at GoDaddy), where it takes the DNS records, which in this case point to your two private DNS servers. Then it gets forwarded by the private name servers to your hosting ip, which, in turn, knows (from the header of a http request) which domain are we talking about, returning the correct web page data.
Regarding the changes to this process...
Reminds me of an anecdote where son comes to his father-programmer and asks him "why is the sun getting every morning at the east, and setting down at the west?". Father, while debugging his code, says: "Are you sure? have you checked that this process is really working like that? THEN DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!" :)))
I have "touched" that, which resulted in a couple of days of downtime, while the data was cached for too long TTL time, at my internet service provider's dns. :)
Anyway, it is good to play and understand how these DNS things are working BEFORE you have the "production" web site up and running...
What a good chance!
What a good chance!
hosting
I have only used one hosting company. They charge me $15/month and the of course have a 99% success rate too. They are called preferred-hosting. The thing I like is you can email support and they are right there. They will email you back quickly. Plus they use msn instant messenger. So everything is realtime
Great!
Great Jaguar PC hosting Company!
thanks for posting!
Too expensive
This looks to expensive for me - to have 2 IP act as a proxy you need to spend at lead 10$ per month for VPS...
VPS is more than just a proxy :)
Surely, if you only need a proxy IP, there are places to get it cheaper. The feature I was talking about is kind of free bonus when you already have a VPS.
I thought it is a cheap
I thought it is a cheap solution but I am wondering that it seems like costly for you. Anyways, I am really worried to move to a dedicated host from shared account in these days and I am expecting almost the similar package.
Great post thanks for the
Great post thanks for the share!
Reading an article like this
I have never personally had to deal with a lot of server/website hosting issues thankfully, but Im very impressed with what it is you have to say about the topic and how it can affect us in a negative or positive way. There are plenty of web site promotion businesses that could most definitely have a lot taken off of their mind if only they had read an article like the one you have written here.
What makes a good VPS
Thanks for the great post, unfortunately it starts to be a bit old (2007), offers have changed quite a lot compare to the ones 2 years ago. I'm convinced that VPS is the good solution for my multiple websites, however I'm struggling to make the difference between all the packages I can see out there..what would be the perfect VPS if I want to host mutliple sites with MySQL db with reasonable traffic on each?
Thanks for your help
VPS Plan
True, it was written back then when I moved from those trouble hostings, and since then I kind of satisfied, and there is nothing to add :)
The offers have changed a bit from then, they now offer 192 Mb RAM instead of 128, for a bit higher price too, so I guess they are almost the same as back then. If you have some time maybe it is better to wait a bit maybe they will have another sale (they have it like once or twice a year).
Concerning your question about which package to choose. If you've never had a VPS, then take the first plan named "ONE", you also can try the code "VPS10YRS" here maybe it is still active.
I currently have 224Mb (originally 128Mb plus some coupon code), 20 Gb of HDD and it still seems enough for me. I don't know what's your definition of reasonable traffic :), my sites consume about 5-15 Gb of bandwidth per month and they are all running on Drupal, which is a pretty heavy CPU consumer. For me all this, plus stability, root access, freedom of installing everything you need and on the other hand relatively low monthly price makes VPS a winner for me.
I think I have to write a post with my experience of running Drupal in low memory VPS environment.
Thanks for comparing all of
Thanks for comparing all of the companies. I've been trying to find a good cheap hosting service. You've really helped out alot.