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Today is my installment for Virtual Private Server Hosting.  I have been hosting with VPS machines now for approximately 2 years and overall, I am very satisfied with my service overall.  Hopefully this will give you an idea about what to look for in hosts.I am going to review: amerihosting, vpsempire, cheapvps, vpslink, vpsville, vpsrepublic since I have had all of these at one point or another.  I am also going to explain xen vs openvz vs virtuozzo vps platforms and

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My final part of my hosting blog is going to talk a bit about irc hosting providers.  I have had a few shell hosts and thought I'd share my opinions about them.I will be talking about serverorigin, shellfx, outlandz, and sh3lls.  First, the worst shell company that I can talk about is serverorigin. (serverorigin.com)  A friend of mine had them before I did and warned me not to sign up because their support quit answering questions and he kept getting billed for his shell

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Today I suppose its time to give a thorough analysis of my experience with different hosts.  I have had several hosting providers in my 5 years in dealing with hosting and isps.  This is part 1 of my hosting service series!Back in 2004 when I was first looking at hosts, there weren't many hosts around, so I had 4 choices that I found, all of which I have used.  They included Yahoo, IPowerWeb, 3ix, and Bluehost.  Later on, I have also tried or seen host gator,

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Setting up Windows Server 2003 as a Domain Controller, dhcp server, dns server, wins server, and share an internet connection through a wireless router.Since I am a system admin, every so often, I am required to perform a new server installation that won't screw up my existing network.  Since I thought others might benefit from knowing how to do this, I might as well blog about it.  I am going to also make this able to share a local connection to the internet via a usb verizon

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