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What do you consider "cheap" when purchasing managed dedicated hosting service? For example if you were purchasing a fully managed dedicated server with 2GHz processor, 250 GB hard drive, and 2 GB of ram... what would you consider a fair monthly service price? What support features would you expect to be included in the price?
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$99, 5 IPs, choice of OS, including preconfiguration for Xen or Open VZ, Nap of the Americas in Miami, the rest depends on what you mean by "managed".
"cheap" and "service" tend to only go in the same sentence as words like "poor" and "bad" ;)
what would you consider a fair monthly service price
Which country ? What level of SLA ? How much transfer/bandwidth ? What Operating System ?
The monthly cost of the physical server is an insignificant amount of what you are paying for it to be in a datacentre, connected to the internet etc.
Fully Managed means very different things to different companies - for many it means "we turned on windows update", for others it means "we installed a control panel" and for others it means "we take care of the hardware/os/software/etc, if you need anything just call"
In the UK, with 1Tb/month of transfer, 4 hour HW replacement, Linux O/S, No control Panel, Fully managed, Firewall and 24/7/365 telephone support from a "real" provider not just a reseller of a reseller of a reseller of a reseller, I'd expect you to pay ~£500/month maybe a little more.
Rachel, The fair price question is a tough one. :)
As for support, as a user you should insist that the scope of support be defined as clearly as possible. Different providers have different meaning for the word, support. Some of the areas that you may want support on and should insist on, are:
1. Server security (very important)
2. Software installation and patches
3. Disaster recovery support
4. Server monitoring & optimization/management
Do also check if they have a stated expected turnaround time for tickets.
Hope it helps.
Cheers!
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