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Contegix Rocks I've been working a lot with the guys at Contegix lately. They host both sourcebeat.com and virtuas.com as well as Subversion repositories and mail for both. They also host AppFuse's JIRA for free. They sent me the following e-mail this morning:

issues.appfuse.org has been upgraded to JIRA Enterprise 3.2. Total downtime was less than a minute.

Emphasis is mine. Not only do these guys provide excellent hosting, their support is the best I've ever seen. Whenever I send them a support question, they respond in under a minute. It really is a pleasure to work with them. Posted in Java at Jun 14 2005, 06:21:27 AM MDT 7 Comments

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I agree completely. Contegix is the hosting provider for www.springframework.org and forum.springframework.org (and they subsidize some of the bandwidth of those sites, to boot!). Their service has always been nothing less than excellent, and I would highly recommend that anybody looking for hosting consider Contegix.

Posted by Colin Sampaleanu on June 14, 2005 at 08:02 AM MDT #

I believe that this is true but their prices are extraordinary too (at least compared to German prices).

Posted by Lars Fischer on June 14, 2005 at 08:45 AM MDT #

Lars - if you're looking for someone cheaper, I highly recommend KGB Internet. They host this site and provide outstanding support as well. How do their prices compare?

Posted by Matt Raible on June 14, 2005 at 09:41 AM MDT #

I agree with lars, contegix prices are not affordable for small companies like mine. We just decided to switch to a dedicated server, and the cheapest we found is provided by ovh, a french hosting company. We are not really satisfied with the support (we particularly have problems with dns settings), but it worth its price. Later when we will be rich I hope we will be able to be hosted by contegix ;-)

Posted by Xavier Hanin on June 14, 2005 at 10:46 AM MDT #

My companies have dealt with a variety of hosting companies over the last ten years or so. None of my previous vendors have provided me with anywhere near the level of service that Contegix has. Their pricing actually is less than what I was previously paying for much lesser service. I cannot say enough good things about these guys. They to me are the best bang for the buck, bar none, for a small to medium-sized company.

Posted by Matt Filios on June 14, 2005 at 10:58 AM MDT #

I can only compare prices for a full root server: - 512MB RAM - SuSE Linux - Disk space 60GB - One domain name inclusive - Traffic 200GB month costs about $35 a month http://www.strato.de/server/power/index.html The highend version (750 GB traffic) is about $107 a month. http://www.strato.de/server/highend/index.html These websites are available in German only. It seems that the cost of traffic in Germany is relatively low. Of course you have to install and administer the software yourself but you don't have to share Tomcat with someone else. The "last mile" of the network in Germany is almost always provided by Telekom (you know T-Mobile), so you can trust the network infrastructure. This is the advantage of living in a tiny country:-) This doesn't mean that Contegix and KGB (cool name) aren't a good choice.

Posted by Lars Fischer on June 14, 2005 at 12:53 PM MDT #

Thanks for all the good URLs for good hosting. You guys might also like to consider Rimu Hosting for professional yet competitive priced Java hosting. They provide excellent support and their site is a good resource for developers. (And they're a Kiwi company ;-)

Posted by Adrian Parker on June 14, 2005 at 04:12 PM MDT #

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