mozd3v
April 27th, 2001, 09:11
Firstly, hi to everyone - I just joined the community/forum.
Why? ... I'm in need of information as well as hopefully able to answer some questions for some of you along the way as well. I've read through posts from the past 30 days - wide array of topics, sounds like a superb support group.
Me? .. I worked for a small start-up web design company called Genesis Blue (www.genesisblue.com) ... managing the company network/routers (locally) as well as looking after the company domain hosted with Tera-Byte.
I've recently decided to open my own subsidudary of Genesis Blue - primarily aimed at web hosting (as well as several other developments). I registered my domain up (www.d3vglobal.com as well as http://www.genesisblue.net to keep them in the loop) - and for the moment redirected it to my own acc. on our Genesis Blue virtual host at Tera-Byte. Note I mentioned Virtual Host - we currently only have a Pack 4 account (99x)
I've been reasonably happy with Tera-Byte since registering with them 18 months ago, BUT I've decided to get a dedicated Cobalt RaQ 4r and manage that. I'm currently managing 11 domain's ... 3 of which are actually 'sub-hosted' on our http://www.genesisblue.com virtual host. How you ask? Thanks to http://www.redirection.net ... and I'm able to redirect any given domain to http://www.genesisblue.com/~client same with email etc. via email.tera-byte.com and on one of the domains I'm testing out http://www.everyone.net (web-based email through slight change in MX records which TB happily did).
I realize its a shoddy setup - and this is the major reason/interest for my move to a dedicated unit. Genesis Blue continues to develop and deploy websites - and we need somewhere to host them... I'd rather keep things in-house rather than farming out hosting and having to deal with a million and one http://www.clients-domain.com/siteadmin ... so much easier to admin everything via one /admin zone.
SO, I'm looking at Tera-Bytes options with their 4webhosting etc. and a dedicated RaQ on a 2mbit non-throttled connection. I know they can do this as I've talked with Steve K. Tera-Byte has superb support and their new website has given them a much needed face lift (www.tera-byte.com)
The questions:
1) Who here has a dedicated RaQ 3i or 4r and how do you find it as per performance/management etc, do you recommend it or not?
2) Is anyone here interested in the possibility of starting a Data-Center and/or Small-Hosting business? Preferably I'd be looking for someone else who does webdesign - and would like to host "in-house" - reduce management hassles and increase profits.
3) I believe in the past I've heard that Tera-Byte gives you access to their DNS interface. How restricted is it? Does this permit you to add subhosts (e.g. http://billg.d3vglobal.com) and do you have complete control over Address Records (A), Canonical Name Records (CNAME), Mail Exchange Records (MX), Pointer Records (PTR) and Nameserver Records (NS)? And IS Tera-Byte (by default) the SOA (Start of Authority)?
4) The RaQ 4r provides RAID 1 (disk mirroring) ... has anyone sucessfully configured Secondary/Parsed Host Mapping on top of this? (tough question - I'm taking to two chaps from Xeran who are working on this atm).
Anyway, I'd appreciate whatever feedback you can give me. Sorry if this post is far to long... I've asked the majority of my questions here as I'd like to get feedback from those of you on my end of the stick (clients) - rather than contiuning to harass the Tera-Byte support team :)
moz.
>> If you want to drop me an email ... moz@d3vglobal.com
Why? ... I'm in need of information as well as hopefully able to answer some questions for some of you along the way as well. I've read through posts from the past 30 days - wide array of topics, sounds like a superb support group.
Me? .. I worked for a small start-up web design company called Genesis Blue (www.genesisblue.com) ... managing the company network/routers (locally) as well as looking after the company domain hosted with Tera-Byte.
I've recently decided to open my own subsidudary of Genesis Blue - primarily aimed at web hosting (as well as several other developments). I registered my domain up (www.d3vglobal.com as well as http://www.genesisblue.net to keep them in the loop) - and for the moment redirected it to my own acc. on our Genesis Blue virtual host at Tera-Byte. Note I mentioned Virtual Host - we currently only have a Pack 4 account (99x)
I've been reasonably happy with Tera-Byte since registering with them 18 months ago, BUT I've decided to get a dedicated Cobalt RaQ 4r and manage that. I'm currently managing 11 domain's ... 3 of which are actually 'sub-hosted' on our http://www.genesisblue.com virtual host. How you ask? Thanks to http://www.redirection.net ... and I'm able to redirect any given domain to http://www.genesisblue.com/~client same with email etc. via email.tera-byte.com and on one of the domains I'm testing out http://www.everyone.net (web-based email through slight change in MX records which TB happily did).
I realize its a shoddy setup - and this is the major reason/interest for my move to a dedicated unit. Genesis Blue continues to develop and deploy websites - and we need somewhere to host them... I'd rather keep things in-house rather than farming out hosting and having to deal with a million and one http://www.clients-domain.com/siteadmin ... so much easier to admin everything via one /admin zone.
SO, I'm looking at Tera-Bytes options with their 4webhosting etc. and a dedicated RaQ on a 2mbit non-throttled connection. I know they can do this as I've talked with Steve K. Tera-Byte has superb support and their new website has given them a much needed face lift (www.tera-byte.com)
The questions:
1) Who here has a dedicated RaQ 3i or 4r and how do you find it as per performance/management etc, do you recommend it or not?
2) Is anyone here interested in the possibility of starting a Data-Center and/or Small-Hosting business? Preferably I'd be looking for someone else who does webdesign - and would like to host "in-house" - reduce management hassles and increase profits.
3) I believe in the past I've heard that Tera-Byte gives you access to their DNS interface. How restricted is it? Does this permit you to add subhosts (e.g. http://billg.d3vglobal.com) and do you have complete control over Address Records (A), Canonical Name Records (CNAME), Mail Exchange Records (MX), Pointer Records (PTR) and Nameserver Records (NS)? And IS Tera-Byte (by default) the SOA (Start of Authority)?
4) The RaQ 4r provides RAID 1 (disk mirroring) ... has anyone sucessfully configured Secondary/Parsed Host Mapping on top of this? (tough question - I'm taking to two chaps from Xeran who are working on this atm).
Anyway, I'd appreciate whatever feedback you can give me. Sorry if this post is far to long... I've asked the majority of my questions here as I'd like to get feedback from those of you on my end of the stick (clients) - rather than contiuning to harass the Tera-Byte support team :)
moz.
>> If you want to drop me an email ... moz@d3vglobal.com