neurotra
12-30-2002, 10:50 AM
Hi,
I am a newbie for dedicated servers. After reading many posts in these excelent forums I am still confused.
I have found this offer from RackShack
Celeron 1.3 512MB RAM
60 GB Hard Drive / 7200 RPM
400GB Monthly Transfer
256k OBC - 100MHz FSB
RedHat Linux 7.2 - Ensim
Set Up Fee $39.00
Monthly Fee $99.00
Anyone could suggest other dedicated (and reliabel ) companies?
Rackshack does not offer Firewalls or Backups, How you can manage that ?
Thank you
kongen
12-30-2002, 11:14 AM
For backup you can use somting like http://www.ikiwi.net/backupservice/
neurotra
12-30-2002, 11:26 AM
Kongen,
Thanks for your mial. Do you mean that I have to make backups to another server in a second company ?
On the other hand I would like to know your opinion on RackShack versus Cobalt RQ3 server in cobaltrack.com.
Thank you
hostingsp
12-30-2002, 01:51 PM
The http://www.cobaltrack.com/ seems to charge too much for extra bandwight...
And there site is not good :(
I wont sign-up it a company that has that much newbie site...
The rackshack is a good chose for you...
For a firewall search the rackshack forum and you will find how to install bastille ( linux free ) firewall, and a damme good firewall :)
TheVoice
12-30-2002, 02:01 PM
install a firewall yourself and get a secondary hard drive and backup to that. its cheaper than anything out there.
Martie
12-30-2002, 02:16 PM
Check out the rackshack forums!
neurotra
12-30-2002, 02:23 PM
Thank you all for your replies ;)
I agrre with Cobalt Rack website. Furthermore, presales support is not very good. I thought RACKSHACK was a very good option, but I read some bad opinions about them in this forum and I was affraid.
Abusing of your time, which option would you chose :
Intel Pentium 3 1 Hz
Celeron 1.3 Hz
Both with 512 RAM
Ot it is worh the prize to pay 30 little bit mOre for a Pentium iV 2 HZ
Good forums!!
Thank you
TheVoice
12-30-2002, 02:27 PM
p3 1ghz and celeron 1.3 should be about the same depending on the cache of both cpus. P4 upgrade wouldn't hurt. I have 5 rackshack servers and would recommend them.
neurotra
12-30-2002, 02:41 PM
Thank you again :)
We are a small group of people involved in research and we want to use this server as a tool for protocols, e-mail and so. We are not techis and all of us have been working in Windows 2000. Basic knowledge on servers and nothing about mySQL, PHP or scripting :confused:
Do you think it is a too difficult venture?
Could you please recommend us a good forum like this to start to learn some basic thinks on how to manage your server and survive?
Thank you :cartman:
