[I apologize to GauGau in advance but for some reason, I do not find a new post in this forum category, so I placed it here, the most related topic I could find. If possible, move it as a new topic. Thanks.]
I have many sites now where I have several dozen photogalleries (50 in one) that easily exceed and thus violate the very fine prints of existing bargain basement shared server accounts (see note 1 below). After you add the CMS and other software for chat, forum, blogs the need for dedicated server becomes more imperative.
Anyway, for quite awhile now, I have been looking for dedicated hosting services with tech support included. More like higher end version of the shared server hosting services provided by some responders here (see note 1 below).
I am not concerned if the hosting service company is in the US, Germany or anywhere in Europe where very fast internet backbones are available. Preferably, hosting services that would not consider photos of the Sistene chapel or art sculptures are violations of their TOS because there are nudes. Things like that. I had an issue with Flickr on this (they did not ban my account by they threatened to ban me because I was defending others) during their censorship campaign.
If you know of any, or you are using a dedicated server hosting now, please share your suggestion and actual link (if you have a site). Please avoid suggesting one that you just found by Google search. I have been doing that already.
Thanks.
Cornelio
Note 1:
Scams: There are some shared server hosting services provided here that I actually left because of very poor service. So, beware. The cheapest is not always the best. And when it is too good to be true, most likely it is really not true. Many shared servers hosting services now advertise such crazy stuff like 750Gb diskspace and 7.5Tb bandwidth for ridiculous prices less than $10 per monthn ($6-8 usually). Some are actually offering unlimited bandwidth
In contrast, a dedicated server will cost 80Gb diskspace and 750Gb bandwidth for $150 plus set up cost of as much as $50-150