Co-locating Webserver

[Crushdepth]

Got a new webserver problem, this time for work. We are currently hosting our organizations website in our office, using a 1MB connection donated by a government agency (they also give us an IP).

The problem is that our provider - as kind as they are - are horribly unreliable. Their network regularly goes down for days at a time and since we don't actually pay anything they are (understandably) not in a hurry to fix it. Half our staff are outposted to different countries and when its down we have no website and no email - for example the last three days - so I am rather *unpopular* while its broken.

I want to get away from our current provider (sick of begging them to fix it all the time) and co-locate our webserver at a commercial ISP. The main thing is it has *got* to be reliable - I'm only going to get one shot at this or I will likely be looking for a new job soon ! The other thing is that it has got to be *cheap*. We are a small dev org and will have to go out and raise the funding to pay for it somehow (you may see me showing a bit of leg on Phahonyohtin tonight).

Cheap + reliable colocation (and if possible, responsive staff ie. no disinterested 'nongs'). Any suggestions ?

Or should I just ditch the server altogether and rent disk space ? Bit reluctant to go that way as we rented space once before and had a very bad experience. The site is a couple of GB in size.

Many thanks for suggestions.

[jayrockwell]

Renting 2GB of reliable US webspace will only cost you 600 Baht a month, sounds cheap if your job is on the line, email me [email protected] with your requirements, we'll come up with a custom solution for you.

J

[Phil Conners]

Advertisement is ok on Thaivisa as long as it is the sponsors doing it

You could do worse than shop around

[Darknight]

calpop.com hosts my server , good price(88$ a month) , never down yet in 6 monts, located in Los angeles. 1500 gig bandwith a month

[grrr]

Yeah certainly shop around and do a little research! I've been using pair Networks in the US for about 5 years now and would not use anyone else.

[Phil Conners]

Quite a few people on Webhostingtalk.com disagree with your opinion of Pair.

[JJDinsay]

I use Yahoo for Small Biz package. About 11.95 and 19.95 for more space. With this package you should have all the resources of Yahoo at your fingertips.