ThePokerBank
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So I set up a VPS about 10 years ago with a company called ServInt. Solid service, never had any problems. They were recently bought out by a bigger company called LeaseWeb. No problems here either to be honest, but it's not the company I originally chose.
Anyway, when I got the server I had zero sysadmin skills, so combination of CentOS/WHM/CPanel worked well. In fact I didn't even know what Linux distro it was running.
I'm pretty good at (and enjoy) setting up Ubuntu servers now, but I'm nervous about touching this old server for fear of breaking it because I'm not familiar with CentOS. I basically just went to upgrade from PHP5.4 (I want 7.4), which is when I realized how old the OS was.
Upgrading from CentOS 5 (yes, 5) doesn't appear to be a simple option, so if I'm going to put the effort in to upgrade, I thought I might as well get new VPS and start from scratch with my distro of choice... Ubuntu.
So I'm in the market for a new VPS.
I'm looking for something reliable (I want to trust it completely) and US-based (current VPS is in US, and I don't want to rock the boat). Also, I slightly prefer small/medium hosts as opposed to big corporate hosting solutions. Price isn't a big deal, but that doesn't mean I want to pay top dollar for the sake of it.
My current server uses about 500GB bandwith/month, and only needs about 2GB storage. No big CPU requirements, it's just an apache webserver.
What do you recommend?
Anyway, when I got the server I had zero sysadmin skills, so combination of CentOS/WHM/CPanel worked well. In fact I didn't even know what Linux distro it was running.
I'm pretty good at (and enjoy) setting up Ubuntu servers now, but I'm nervous about touching this old server for fear of breaking it because I'm not familiar with CentOS. I basically just went to upgrade from PHP5.4 (I want 7.4), which is when I realized how old the OS was.
Upgrading from CentOS 5 (yes, 5) doesn't appear to be a simple option, so if I'm going to put the effort in to upgrade, I thought I might as well get new VPS and start from scratch with my distro of choice... Ubuntu.
So I'm in the market for a new VPS.
I'm looking for something reliable (I want to trust it completely) and US-based (current VPS is in US, and I don't want to rock the boat). Also, I slightly prefer small/medium hosts as opposed to big corporate hosting solutions. Price isn't a big deal, but that doesn't mean I want to pay top dollar for the sake of it.
My current server uses about 500GB bandwith/month, and only needs about 2GB storage. No big CPU requirements, it's just an apache webserver.
What do you recommend?
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