For managed dedicated hosting I very very very very highly recommend Rackspace. www.rackspace.com I've worked with cheaper providers in the past, but with Rackspace we've had absolutely no network downtime since we've been with them (almost a year now), and they've been incredibly responsive to our server needs. The best example... their monitoring picked up an attempt to do a brute force password attack on our FTP. (It was failing because we only allow good passwords of course, but that's beside the point here). They called me on a Saturday afternoon with the notification. I called back at 9:30 Saturday night and was connected to a very knowledgeable technician with no hold time. The technician spent half an hour with me checking the logs and making sure there were no other related attacks and checking firewall settings. No extra charge. When I wasn't available, they also talked my partner here through installing a secure certificate. No wait time during business hours and a very knowledgeable tech who not only took care of the issue but spent time teaching him how it worked. Once again, no extra support charge. We have full administrative access to the server, so this is all stuff we could have done ourselves (it was in fact done in a shared Terminal Services session), but they were really there when we needed them. They do both Windows and Linux hosting with really first class data centers in the continental US. (We'll avoid the stories about the US based provider to remain nameless whose servers were in Puerto Rico and whose support was in Eastern Europe). -Dan -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Chris Duncan, GISmatters Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:17 AM To: Hidden Tech Discussion List Subject: [Hidden-tech] Dedicated web server - advice/recommendations? ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. I need to find a provider for a managed, dedicated web server that will support ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. I only want to focus on installing and running the ASP.NET app and some very basic site administration - I would like the provider to handle hardware, OS and application installation/updates, backups, etc. In other words, I don't want to become a server admin - just want to put my app up and have it work with minimal fuss. There's a rather large universe of providers out there - any recommendations and/or advice on things to watch (out) for when choosing a provider would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Chris -- Chris Duncan, Ph.D. President GISmatters duncan at GISmatters.com http://www.gismatters.com/ 1 Tuckerman Ln Amherst, MA 01002 Tel: 413-549-2052 Fax: 508-637-2557 _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members