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You'll get better answers if you ask a more specific question. E.g. Hetzner is an established company that will give you lots of server for your buck (and you m

You'll get better answers if you ask a more specific question. E.g. Hetzner is an established company that will give you lots of server for your buck (and you may be interested in http://www.serverbidding.com/ http://www.serverbidding.com/); but if you're trying to run a game server for your buddies in the US, the fact that's in Germany means that you won't have the best ping possible. Similarly, OVH's budget brand KimSufi is unlikely to go under any time soon, but your questions won't exactly be a priority for support. RackSpace is the opposite - they try to offer excellent support, but they definitely aren't the cheapest. Finally, AWS and Linode have their own advantages; unless you're sure you want to stick with dedicated, at least consider those - if only because you can claim "cloud" experience. ;-)

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
>Similarly, OVH's budget brand KimSufi is unlikely to go under any time soon, but your questions won't exactly be a priority for support. What kinds of questions won't be a priority specifically? "What is linux?" or "Can you please reboot my server?" types of questions?
- JoachimSchipper 13y ago
  From sniffing around a bit a year or so back, while considering them, they're pretty fast with "please reboot", but you'll have to get "real" OVH if you want support that will help you with more complicated questions. Reading HN, it seems that this is still the case. OTOH, as you suggest, there are lots of questions a capable sysadmin can find the answer to without help.