Going Dedicated, any suggestions
 

Price is still a consideration, beyond that want as much as possible for as little as possible :) - but up time, service, etc is still the most important.

Would like to stay under 300, actually need to.

um, wow, I am way off, didnt mean to be in this forum

Try www.racknine.com - tell Chris or Kevin that Erwin from vB.org sent you. :)

Moving to The Lounge...

Perhaps rackshack.net? I've got a dedicated box there and I'm satisfied considering how cheap it is. Don't expect too much support though, but as I said, you get what you pay for.

<-- Agrees with Erwin. Racknine is an excellent company and all things considered, they are one of the best hosts I've found. :)

nocster.com beats all companies hands down here. Below 300, pfft, go look at the valentines day special servers, for $300 per month you can get your hands on Dual 2GHZ Xeons with 1GB of top quality RAM and 1TB bandwidth...

I checked the dedicated servers page of nocster, and the prices are quite a bit more expensive than rackshack. However, support might be better, I don't know. All servers at nocster comes with a max ram of 512 MB (which isn't enough for a webserver if you ask me), and paying $85 extra setup + $25 monthtly for 1 GB RAM is a complete rip-off.

I'm thinking of replacing my main server (Dedicated 1 Ghz AMD Duron, 512 RAM (Rackshack)), so I would go with Rackshack again. This deal is very tempting...

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
1 GB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive (7200RPM)
400GB Monthly Transfer
Plesk PSA 5.0

Setup: $109
Monthly: $139

The equivalent server at nocster.com would be something like this:

Intel Pentium 4? 2Ghz
1 GB RAM
80GB IDE Hard Drive
300GB Bandwidth
5 IP Addresses
CPanel5

Setup: $485
Montly: $170

How you can say that nocster.com beats all companies hands down is beyond me... :)

http://www.nocster.com/presale.shtml

Intel P4 Xeon?
Dual 2Ghz
1GB ECC REG DDR
120GB IDE Hard Drive
1000GB Bandwidth << !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 IP Addresses
Red Hat? Linux 7.3
$0.00 SETUP
$299.95 MONTHLY

+ Cpanel only costs $20 a month extra.

This is one top quality server, and the main thing, 1TB of bandwidth...

And the main thing with the prices at nocster is:

they are all managed servers

Their support team will go a long way for you and do a lot for you :).

Ah yes, I was just looking at their non-sale servers. There are some pretty nice servers for a good price, I must say. I'll keep nocster in mind. :)

EDIT: I don't like this though:

3-Month Advance Payment *

EDIT 2: Rackshack has something similar:

Intel Dual XEON 2.0GHz
1 GB DDR RAM - 2x120GB Hard Drives
1000 GB Monthly Transfer!
Ensim WEBppliance 3.1
$299.00 SET-UP FEE
$299 MONTHLY