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Hi Rick

> I have come to the end of my tether with my windows VPS on
> pipex/webfusion - can anyone recommend a reliable host for a windows
> VPS?

I know that feeling well - I had enough of them over a Linux VPS so 
discounted setting up a Windows one.

I've just started a Windows VPS over with http://eukhost.com a couple of 
weeks ago & I'm happy with it and them so far. Looking on their support 
forum it seems that they've been through the initial problems of 
implementation (things like the ratio of virtual servers to physical 
boxes), etc. They also seem to be relatively transparent about problems 
which gives me some confidence.

What's not in their sales blurb (or I couldn't find it when researching) 
is that they have daily backups of your server that you can get them to 
restore (they keep the previous day & previous Sunday only). That's in 
addition to the option that you have in Virtuozzo to manually backup the 
system.

They also have back up host packages that are stored in a completely 
separate data centre, although you could go down the Amazon S3 route 
instead. (On which note, has anyone come across a Windows service for 
backing up to S3? I've only seen desktop solutions around, or that's 
what I've assumed they are)

They'll also apply the Windows security patches centrally rather than 
each VPS having to do it - but that might be true of other VPS providers 
as well.

My top tip for any VPS though is to use a disposable domain name as the 
primary one for the server - that was another area of grief I had when I 
had given up on WebFusion & wanted to move the site away. The primary 
domain gets tangled up in the Plesk configuration so you can't simply 
point the www record somewhere else, even though the admin interface 
looks like you can.

So as I say, so far so good with eukhost, but it looks like it's a new 
development from Virtuozzo anyway so no-one has had that much 
experience/track record.

Cheers

Nigel

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Nigel Dunn
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