Thanks Kiti and Areba, my question is answered. <div><br></div><div>George<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Peter Karunyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkarunyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>@Kiti, would you mind explaining a bit more tech how you &quot;<i>I offload a lot of my traffic  to CDN&#39;s and free/relatively cheap cache servers</i>&quot;?<br>
<br></div>I have always assumed, wrongly it seems, that CDN = Akamai = Lots of $$<br>
<br></div>And does pulling jquery + jquery ui from Google count?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Areba Collins [ @BrainiacKE ® ] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com" target="_blank">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">and im doing rackspace coud, three servers, 512, 512 and 1024. all relatively stable and with little trouble. <br><div>

<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Kiti Chigiri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kiti.chigiri@gmail.com" target="_blank">kiti.chigiri@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This has been my experience so far on linode:<br></div><div><br>I have been hosting about 5 medium traffic  apache/php /mysql apps for over 3 years now  plus a couple of low traffic html websites as well as  hosting  three  .NETv3.5 web apps( using Mono) on the same platform.  I also have some GIT repos(replacing  SVN repos) as well as syncing my dropbox to the box.  in between have manged to host redmine(ruby on rails) , and SVN.<br>




<br></div><div>In terms of bandwith, have rarely exceeded 60% of the quota, but have lots of  read/write operations on the server from background daemons. Naturally, I offload a lot of my traffic  to CDN&#39;s and free/relatively cheap cache servers.<br>




</div><div><br>I am on the standard linode1024 plan  running debian 6.0 <br><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, george <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:theonlydamnedavailablename@gmail.com" target="_blank">theonlydamnedavailablename@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Linode looks very good. Whats your experience with their service?<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>

</font></span><div><span><font color="#888888">George</font></span><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Frank Ochere <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ochere@gmail.com" target="_blank">ochere@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>





<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 <a href="http://linode.com" target="_blank">linode.com</a><br></div><div><div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Kiti Chigiri <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kiti.chigiri@gmail.com" target="_blank">kiti.chigiri@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>






<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://linode.com" target="_blank">linode.com</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">






<div><div>On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:04 PM, george <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:theonlydamnedavailablename@gmail.com" target="_blank">theonlydamnedavailablename@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>I am looking for a reliable VPS host - i.e. Virtual Server host. Please recommend any that you have used that is reliable and cost effective for a basic application, meaning its not space/memory/bandwidth intensive. The entry level service will do just fine. </div>









<div><br></div><div>I have already checked out Safaricom locally would but would like to check out other options.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>George</div>
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