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niv
July 26th, 2001, 11:48
does the AUP also apply to the dedicated servers? :p
ljprevo
July 26th, 2001, 13:03
Yup, already asked them.
niv
July 26th, 2001, 13:33
does their AUP prevent you from becoming a host? :D
ljprevo
July 26th, 2001, 13:59
Originally posted by needcgispace
does their AUP prevent you from becoming a host? :D

I never seen anything in regard to being a host. I know there are host that use them. I intented on getting a dedicated server with them to host on.

Anyone else know? I guess I will have to ask them on their chat.
niv
July 26th, 2001, 14:08
i was just wondering because 175 GB/mo. transfer at $99 a month is enticing, isn't it ;)
Robert
July 26th, 2001, 14:58
Last time I checked, they've upgraded it to 200GB of bandwidth a month with 256mb of ram on each server. I can be mistaken since I don't know use. But I know a few companies that have dedicated RaQ4is from Rackshack and provide hosting.
niv
July 26th, 2001, 15:12
it's still 175 GB, and they only have 17 servers left on this plan
niv
July 26th, 2001, 15:18
make that 15.
biscotto
July 27th, 2001, 04:41
You can use a rackshack server for a hosting company.
vwww.net hosts with them and there are others.

One thing to be aware of though is there isn't always someone at the server location. They told me someone was there between 9:00 and 19:00 central (I am not quit sure it was 19:00 but something like that.) If there is a problem with your server outside of those hours, they will send someone out to fix it. I think tech support is available 24/7.

The server I manage crashed three times last week. (out of memory/out of disk space in OS partician due to poor cobalt configuration design) It took 2 to 3 hour for them to restart it two of the times. It took over 15 hours the other time.
(the crashes all happened around the time of cron daily, about 4:30 pacific.)

There is just one site on the server so it wasn't a major catastrophy to have it down so long, but I sure wouldn't want that down time if I was hosting 100 sites. I think system crashes are fairly rare though. Our server ran for three+ months without a problem.

Other than that, I am very satisfied with them.

You won't find a better deal with that configuration and bandwidth.

Don
niv
July 27th, 2001, 10:53
if you need extra space, can you buy it from them? i may have missed it in the sales faq. all i saw was that you can ask for internet protocol addresses, that's it.
biscotto
July 27th, 2001, 11:53
I think that all of their servers are raq4i with the same configuration. The only upgrade that I have seen is memory (to 512).

Don
Michael-MS
July 29th, 2001, 16:47
Biscotto's comments are very accurate. Depending on what time of the day your server goes down, it could be back up an hour later or the next day.

Regarding the disk space, all of the Raq4i's come with 20 GB. You can't upgrade the disk space.

Regarding their support... their's always someone there to talk to... the IRC chat is great!

I've heard a lot of people complaining about not getting quality support and I see it happening in the IRC chat. But it doesn't make sense to me... if your server is down, you don't go and "chat" about it. You send in a trouble ticket and make a phone call if necessary. Phone support is 24/7.

Just my opinion of course. :)
niv
July 29th, 2001, 19:05
i think i would rather go with interserver or burstNET
Michael-MS
July 29th, 2001, 22:45
Neither interserver.net or burst.net offer Raq servers... I don't see how you can compare?

And I knew the owner of interserver.net from back when we used to chat on AOL. (long time ago) I really doubt that they have their own NOC, so are they reselling their dedicated servers?
niv
July 30th, 2001, 10:19
seems so:



stingray:~> traceroute interserver.net
traceroute to interserver.net (216.74.79.251), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 209.123.152.1 (209.123.152.1) 100.264 ms 2.521 ms 2.527 ms
2 vlan603.msfc1.oct.nac.net (207.99.8.197) 0.686 ms 0.919 ms 0.546 ms
3 g6-0-0-1.core1.oct.nac.net (207.99.21.33) 0.684 ms 0.902 ms 0.756 ms
4 a6-0-0-1153.core1.nyc.nac.net (209.123.11.190) 4.164 ms 2.457 ms 2.449 ms
5 nyiix-peer1.NYC3.Globix.net (198.32.160.32) 3.949 ms 4.475 ms 3.416 ms
6 s3-1-core2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.12.17) 3.962 ms 6.372 ms 3.439 ms
7 ge1-0-0-hgw1.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.70) 7.891 ms * 4.767 ms
8 p6-0.core1.cftnnj.inet.vdi.net (209.208.253.234) 4.916 ms 4.948 ms 4.578 ms
9 vlan1.edge1.cftnnj.inet.vdi.net (216.74.127.226) 5.747 ms 4.883 ms 5.648 ms
10 interserver.net (216.74.79.251) 6.644 ms 7.432 ms 4.499 ms


as for the dedicated server, I'm just a newbie so I'd rather go with a server with a lot of space. maybe I'm wrong. you can count on seeing me more often at WHT (i'm still using my old username, needcgispace)
Michael-MS
July 30th, 2001, 12:43
FROM net.yahoo.com TO interserver.net.

traceroute to interserver.net (216.74.79.251), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 v998-snv-io-rtr1 (216.145.48.2) 0.477 ms 0.337 ms 0.331 ms
2 ge-0.2.0.pat1.pao.yahoo.com (216.115.100.97) 1.709 ms 1.675 ms 1.683 ms
3 ge-1-3-0.msr2.pao.yahoo.com (216.115.100.146) 1.700 ms 1.692 ms 1.684 ms
4 ge-0-0-0-p0.pat2.pao.yahoo.com (216.115.100.153) 145.060 ms 142.062 ms 144.772 ms
5 209.10.13.241 (209.10.13.241) 149.951 ms 152.542 ms 149.454 ms
6 so-4-3-2.core2.sjc1.globix.net (209.10.12.129) 151.078 ms 150.224 ms 146.533 ms
7 so-4-3-0.core2.sjc4.globix.net (209.10.10.186) 149.184 ms 152.892 ms 154.862 ms
8 so-0-0-0.core1.sjc4.globix.net (209.10.10.145) 150.952 ms 150.166 ms 147.601 ms
9 so-1-0-0.core2.cgx2.globix.net (209.10.10.150) 201.135 ms 209.527 ms 214.385 ms
10 so-0-0-0.core1.cgx2.globix.net (209.10.10.157) 210.835 ms 212.805 ms 215.848 ms
11 so-1-0-0.core2.nyc8.globix.net (209.10.10.162) 253.758 ms 250.798 ms 249.353 ms
12 pos10-1.core2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.11.141) 250.711 ms 256.354 ms 253.751 ms
13 ge1-0-0-hgw1.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.70) 249.887 ms 249.249 ms 252.948 ms
14 p6-0.core1.cftnnj.inet.vdi.net (209.208.253.234) 256.113 ms 252.159 ms 256.533 ms
15 vlan1.edge1.cftnnj.inet.vdi.net (216.74.127.226) 265.889 ms 254.196 ms 256.672 ms
16 interserver.net (216.74.79.251) 268.804 ms 259.936 ms 261.738 ms

Why such a big difference? Yours came up as 6 ms, and from yahoo it's 261 ms, lol.

Anyway, Interserver is on dedicated servers at VDI and reselling or colocating servers at VDI as well. The pictures that Interserver has of "their" NOC are actually pictures taken from vdi.net.