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We always ask for it by fax but then accept it via email when people complain. :-) I like the idea of a fax as the return number on the fax can lead to further location identification (yes, sometimes folks use net-to-fax services). You could use a password protected zip or pdf file if you...

The major hurdle is consistency, and even within providers that will change drastically over time.  If a provider puts up a new node and you are the first VM on it, performance will be stellar.  However over the course of a month as new VMs fire up, your performance will change. As an end-user...

Wow.  I'd never noticed that myself either.  Thanks for the share.

Again, while DNS failover is the simplest approach, you cannot overcome caching issues.

The simplest method would be to accomplish this through DNS, though you have some caching issues with this approach. Another way would be to use a load balancer to decide where to send the traffic.  LVS (www.linuxvirtualserver.org) works admirably for this task.  Of course now all of your...

Something breaking bad is the foundation to an excellent learning experience!

I was somewhat curious as I did a test run on one of our 2GB cloud servers with a vanilla centos image and it came to 1359 seconds.  However, our vanilla is just that -- very very plain.  No dev packages at all, so it spent a considerable amount of time just gathering packages before it got...

Thanks for sharing this information.  I am curious though -- is there any difference in the number of rpms that need to be installed?  Eg, does not have development packages installed whereas the other does not?  Or are they starting out on equal footing?

We've been running freepbx for about 2 years now.  So far its been rock solid... (Pardon me while I go find a piece of wood to bang on....)

We've been migrating over an extended period of time to NetEarthOne.  Reasonable pricing and hands down the best support of any registrar we've worked with.

We fought adding paypal payments for a long time before caving in (years ago now of course).  Over the past 2-3 years we have had an accelerating number of clients switching from direct card payments over to paypal.  At this point it would be really hard to forgo paypal as an option.  Which of...

One path to true happiness....

$100 for board+cpu+ram does not seem like it would buy that much.

wow. just wow.

oops - yes, i did leave amavis off my list.  that should certainly be on there!

postfix for smtp (+mysql for virt users) dovecot for imap spamassassin + clamav for filtering squirrelmail and roundcube for webmail i've also used mailcleaner (opensource version) for an in-line filtering solutions (ala barracuda) and it is quite nice, things could be simplified down a bit...

But we can save over $7000 with that......

If you are offering dedicated servers, who's to say they are not already being used for game servers? As others have mentioned, we have found the E3 series to be particularly popular for minecraft hosting.

We do 1U colo starting at $55/month

We have clusters of machines (one cluster for http/https, one cluster for pop, one cluster for smtp) sitting in front of shared storage.   Request comes into the load balancer and using a weighted least connection algorithm is sent to a physical box for handling.  The reply comes straight out...