In the beginning, peecee.dk was hosted at b-one.dk, but as the site grew more space and traffic was needed – because of this, a change of hosting partner was needed. EUshells.com made a great offer, and I was hosted at their server for a while – but I did not have full control over the server, and had no rights to install my own programs or manage the server myself. This bothered me a little, and because of this, I decided last winter to have my own dedicated server – I looked around on the net and found that dedicated servers are quite expensive (well – they go for as low as €29 these days, but they usually contain crappy hardware at that price).

I still wanted to have full control over my server but was not willing to pay the price, so what was the solution to this problem? I found a type of hosting known as a virtual dedicated server at jakobjp.com and signed up almost immediately – and the server worked nicely. However, I was informed shortly after the sign-up that jakobjp.com was just reselling servers from hexonet.de but at a much higher price – so I cancelled my jakobjp.com account and signed up for a virtual dedicated server at hexonet.de which I used as the host for my domains in around half a year. The server was configured with debian and the swsoft confixx controlpanel and I was happy with the server the time I was with hexonet.

I have recently developed an interest in ASP.NET and is looking forward to develop web sites in that language, but for these web sites to be published the server have run Windows 2003 – so a month ago I changed server again – this time I ordered the largest RootDS server from keyweb.de. Until yesterday the server ran perfectly, but last night I experienced problems (which should be completely resolved by now). The RootDS server is extremily cheap, and it is fast enough to suit my needs. It is configured with Windows 2003 standard and the Plesk 7.5 controlpanel which enable me to run websites written in both ASP.NET and PHP.

For anyone running a web site of a considerable size or wanting to have full control over their hosting but who do not want to pay the price of a dedicated server (which are pretty expensive if Windows is demanded – they go for no less than €50 a month), i can highly recommend a virtual dedicated server – the performance/cost ratio is very good (well, for me anyway).