PHP 5.3 Hosting | Custom Servers?

rulian

Hey Everyone,

I need to get a box up with php 5.3 with latest mysql & apache.
I can settle for a good shared or vps that I can work with for now as long as they allow me some include url stuff.

Otherwise, I can put my own box up anywhere you guys recommend, like a data center. I'm in NJ but I dont know any places around here.

Otherwise, I can put up my home line here but I dont trust optimum online residential to be up or reliable enough to open with "boost"

What do you guys recommend, i wanna get something up asap

bpat1434

I'd suggest Rackspace Cloud. You can get a cloud server for as little as $11 / month. I've got a server there and it works fairly well. It's considered an unmanaged server, so you can install everything you want (php 5.3, mysql, apache, etc.).

rulian

nice! sounds cool but how does it work? I pay 11 bucks per month + bandwidth usage?
I'm not going to be using my app in cloud it will be centrally located, but suppose I wanted to run a socket server as well on its own machine would that be another 11 bucks or can I expand to different systems?

bpat1434

Yeah, it's 22 cents for each Gig out, and 8 cents for each Gig in.

You have to pay for what you use. So the monthly cost can vary. Depends on the traffic your site generates.

rulian

any ideas on becoming your own isp?
Anybody running production servers from commercial lines like cable or fios w/ results?

bpat1434

Technically at that point you're not your own ISP, rather your own hosting company :p I run a home server, but I don't give out access to everyone. Rather I use it mainly for testing and put what works to my "live" server.

Over FiOS it's not bad, cable is a little worse.

<tirade>We have our own dev server at work that we give client's access to view over Comcast's Business Class internet, and they are horrendous. Our internet dropped out for the entire time i was doing my working interview there (try developing an OOP blog starting from scratch with absolutely no access to resources online, and nothing in print that is extremely helpful). Ever since then, if the weather turns bad, we lose internet (like this coming weekend, or the past few days). Even if the sun shines in such a way, our internet slows down.</tirade>