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[_] windows vps recomendations

Nigel Dunn nigel at redefine.co.uk
Sun Sep 2 14:09:44 BST 2007

Rick Hurst wrote:

> I think getting tangled up with Plesk configuration is my current
> problem - admittedly probably of my own making, as I had made some
> changes to things directly which confused Plesk. I posted on here a
> few weeks ago about randomly stopping sites within IIS, and after
> examining the logs within event viewer  it looks like one of the plesk
> sevices is causing this. as it seems to be getting confused. I don't
> need plesk, and although initially I found it convenient to set up
> sites etc via plesk i'd rather administer things directly via remote
> desktop. I'm convinced that if I disable the plesk services, bad
> things might happen?

You have the choice with eukhost not to include plesk. I don't like it 
much, it seems to get in the way & you're not too certain what would 
happen if you start switching things off.

> googling around earlier I found http://www.interhost.co.uk - anyone
> got any horror stories (about interhost rather than just general
> horror stories ;-) ?

I had a look at them when I was searching for a Windows VPS, but got the 
impression through googling that they were struggling with support as 
they were too small.

Nigel

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