Ok so Alabanza is the best host ever, well atleast one of the best, but they don't host no more, so WHO IS THE BEST ALABANZA RESELLER?? (price/packages and service)

How about it?

Duval

I'd really have to say www.HostRocket.com (http://www.HostRocket.com)

There support has been great and they get everything done for you really fast and with no problems.

What's the URL to your site bacon?

How can you define who is the best reseller? I mean if Host A has great prices but mediocre support, but Host B has great support but high prices, which is better?

How about a list of the hosts that use Alabanza based servers? Wouldn't that be a better question? If so, here are a few (in no particular order):

optimalservers.com
hostmatters.com
webauthorities.com
hostrocket.com
linuxwebhost.com
helpfulhosting.com
sitehost4u.com
jumpline.com

I feel like I'm missing a few.



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Mike Astin
WebAuthorities
http://www.webauthorities.com

hostcaters.com
10host.com
superior-host.com
netfronts.com
wisesource.com

Just a few others off the top of my head.

By the way, technically speaking, no one resells for Alabanza, as Alabanza does not provide hosting - there are quite a few Alabanza-based hosts, though.

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Annette
Hosting Matters, Inc.
http://www.hostmatters.com

[This message has been edited by Annette (edited 07-25-2000).]

That's a good point Annette - there really are no Alabanza resellers. We all lease servers from them. I've seen that trampled in different forums and people get hung up on it.
For the original post - what features? I'd say everyone offers different features and there are still 2 types of servers. Some people use the Dual Pentiums and some do not. Some offer higher bandwidth limits, some offer deeper discounts, some offer free nameservers....Because of the plethora of Alabanza-based hosting companies here and the quality of individuals that run them, I doubt anyone will jump up and scream "I'm the best for every reseller". I'd look through the lists here and make the judgement for yourself.

BTW - the quality individuals that post here are not limited to Alabanza, but I've seen some very good ones (and bad - dare I say it Annette?....TH)

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Chris Marks
KBS Web Hosting (http://www.netfronts.com)
http://www.netfronts.com

Thank you all for your sharp replies, and offcourse you can't compare host A with B, and I gues it's hard to make a definition of the best host, so a list of Alabama-based hosts to compare for my self and others would be fine.
(My original question was a little to simple)

So people if know more alabanza-based host post them here!

Duval

(BTW a friend of my is hosting with gxhosting.com which is also is an Alabanza-based host.)

Another one,
www.domainbuilder.net (http://www.domainbuilder.net)

Duval

Here's one...
http://www.webfeat-inc.com


Originally posted by duval:
Ok so Alabanza is the best host ever, well atleast one of the best, but they don't host no more, so WHO IS THE BEST ALABANZA RESELLER?? (price/packages and service)

How about it?

Duval

You can add me to the list of Alabanza based hosts :-)

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Chuck Fox
http://cfoxhost.com

Hi,

My company does reselling for alabanza, and heres a list of other companies i rounded up that are alabanza hosts and all have the capability to resell. I didnt goto them individually to check them out however.

therackroom.com
cablemundotv.com
bolsamania.com
iccsite.com
knuge.com
insiteserve.com
aquilacom.com
globalacq.com
aboutsbs.com
aichost.com
huahost.com
earthplaza.net
hostrocket.com
serversanddomains.com
ehostn.com
prizmhosting.com
3dhosting.net
hostingextremes.com
dotcomavenue.com
hostmaker.net
zmox.com
innet2000.com
vantixweb.com
safeco5.net
razhost.com
asv-hosting.com
unieol.net
gr8host.com
backboneinternet.com
cyvox.com
52601.com
spirecom.net
soshosting.com
canhostme.com
broadcasthosting.com
eclipsehosting.com
virtualhostingsolutions.net
goacolyte.com
resellhostingventures.com
aksana.com
topbell.net
1stcom.com
ilawondemand.com
inetxtremes.com
isinetar.com
ez2ba.com
codnat.com
website77.com
unipago.com
mpcinternetworks.com

-Brendan
brendan@hostrocket.com http://www.hostrocket.com

boksoft.net
redhothosting.com
below10host.com

Originally posted by JTY:
boksoft.net
redhothosting.com
below10host.com

below10host.com is Dialtone Internet

below10host does host it's customers on servers at Alabanza. The dns servers they have you use for your domain are ns.4ua.com and ns2.4ua.com.

Our tracer shows this:

| 19 | | 12.26.136.14 | below10host.com | ?FT. LAUDERDALE, FL 33314 | | 166 | -x | Dialtone Internet |

NS.4UA.COM

[No name] (NS79141-HST)

Hostname: NS.4UA.COM
Address: 216.147.28.113
System: ? running ?

Coordinator:
Vailes, Alan (AV301) availes@APEX.NET
AMS
299 Midway Rd
Murray, KY 42071
(270) 753-8054 (FAX) (603) 452-7778

Hostname: NS2.4UA.COM
Address: 216.147.1.37
System: ? running ?

Coordinator:
Vailes, Alan (AV301) availes@APEX.NET
AMS
299 Midway Rd
Murray, KY 42071
(270) 753-8054 (FAX) (603) 452-7778

Record last updated on 05-Feb-2000.
Database last updated on 27-Jul-2000 06:19:54 EDT.

They have changed it today, but I have traced them a month ago also. Did not do a whois querie then because I only was searching for alabanza quality.

I'm not trying to prove anything. The list of alabanza's are long enough. This one is just not one of them.

Clarification for anyone who's interested :

Actually, the post about Below10host is *partially* correct, as they have their 'base' site at DI. However, all their clients' sites (including mine for example) go on to their servers @ Alabanza.

Thought you'd like to know :)


[This message has been edited by BC (edited 07-27-2000).]

The nameservers for below10 are 4ua.com? That's sitehost4u's nameservers... Of course, it could be that below 10 owns sitehost4u, or vice-versa.

Just an observation.

P.S. You can add www.intersurge.com (http://www.intersurge.com) to the list of alabanza based hosts when we "officially" launch on August 1. :)

Nearly vice versa, Brian - the people at Sitehost4u is the same company which runs Below 10 Host.

There's a couple of other companies on ns*.4ua.com as well..

BC, thanks for the info, I'll remember that.

Brian

You can add our name to the list too.

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Regards,
John E. Ode, MCSE
Optimum Digital Enterprises http://odenet.net



[This message has been edited by johnode (edited 08-17-2000).]

I'm not an expert on this and it is off-topic, but John (ode) your site says virtual servers, doesn't that mean every site runs it's own httpd process, having their own httpd.conf, srm.conf etc? Alabanza doesn't have this...they have virtual hosting..I could be all messed up...long day!

I _think_ what he means by that is that he offers virtual hosting, which is a common name to call being on a shared server.

Each client does get their own IP, but I doubt they get their own httpd.conf, although they do of course have an entry in the main httpd.conf file.

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Web Hosting - Design - Promotion - Programming
InfoStar Web Design - Click Here (http://www.infostardesign.com)

I am curious who has the best designed control panel host at Alabanza?

I checked jumpline.com has the best one ever I seen ... Nice addons they had done ..

Ugghhh,

Jumpline may be the best Alabanza based host but they certainly don't have the best control panel - from a graphic designers point of view anyway, none of the icons match stylewise and they don't instantly give the impression of what each one is for (I still have to read the text that goes with them).

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Karl Austin
KDA Web Services

I wonder if it was jumpline's CP that I saw? Someone touted their CP, and all they did was change the icons (which somewhat made sense) to ones that were really colorful but had absolutely no meaning. I think one icon (graphic) was of a football or something.

I personally don't find cobalt's CP better then Alabanza's in terms of function, but it looks a bit brighter and more colorful and has a nice theme throughout.

If you are about to change Alabanza's CP, don't just change the little icons to something else. If it works, who cares anyway (but it never hurst to make something that works *and* looks nice, eh?)

Although the Alabanza control panel may not be the prettiest it is easy to follow even for those who don't live on a computer :) and need things simple and nontechnical.

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Angela
Charity Webspace (division of WebAuthorities)
http://www.charitywebspace.com

Alabanza's CP is plain but functional. I'd say leave well enough alone.

Marksy,

I did a little research on virtual servers and you were right we have virtual hosting with Alabanza. Thanks Brian for your input. It no longer says virtual server on our site.
Our web site has had a complete makeover as well. The web designer is Janis Jaunarajs at http://jaunarajs.com Janis and Arta are very good at what they do. Highly recommended if anyone needs custom design work.

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John E. Ode, MCSE
Optimum Digital Enterprises
"Web Hosting"
http://odenet.net

[This message has been edited by ODE (edited 08-21-2000).]

Cool, it can lead to problems to use verbiage the wrong way...someone always looking for a fight or a free buck! Leads to another interesting thread about the benefits/downsides of virtual servers.

I think it's only proper to through my hat into the ring. http://www.ez2ba.com

We're the fastest growing Alabanza client. When we get our next client we'll have grown 200%. We've just gotten started and haven't begun to advertise. In fact, this board is the first public announcement.

Rockethost, how in the world did you find out about us?

Thomas
Thomas@ez2ba.com



[This message has been edited by Arf (edited 08-28-2000).]

You know, I have a list of about 110 Alabanza VAR's (including myself) and out that, there are only "6" that are Bulk Resellers. Is it not fashionable anymore to resell in bulk, or is that other types of Reseller Discounts make better business sense?

I know costs have gone up but surely there are lots of people making money reselling Bulk plans. Would any of the Bulk Resellers like to make themselves known, or if more appropriate, contact me privately?

Arf,

You said youre the fastest growing alabanza host? How many clients are you adding a month?

-Brendan
brendan@hostrocket.com

Originally posted by Arf
We're the fastest growing Alabanza client. When we get our next client we'll have grown 200%. We've just gotten started and haven't begun to advertise. In fact, this board is the first public announcement.

I think this statement was kinda a joke at the time (was posted a bit ago). Seems he just started, and *one* client would have meant the company was growing 200%. I may be wrong, but that's what I think he was saying, somewhat in jest...

Oh. Ok. I feel signifigantly stupider now that you pointed that out. Im crawling back under my rock now. Good day.
-Brendan
brendan@hostrocket.com

Wait a second... if you have zero clients, and you add one client, that equals 200% growth?

*scratching head, considering changing own accounting system*

Awww, Brendan! Come back!

Originally posted by etLux
Wait a second... if you have zero clients, and you add one client, that equals 200% growth?Ah, it's more confusing than that! He said adding one client would be 200% growth... but if he had one and added one, that's an increase of one hundred percent.

He must have had just half a client at the time.

I know how it is, I have a few half clients.

Since I'm generally regarded as half-witted, this is all beginning to make perfect sense to me.

Heh yeah, I noticed that it was difficult to come up with 'exactly' how he would achieve 200%, but err... bigger fish to fry, chickens to de-feather, etc.

If you want to know, Linux Web Host is evil. They are an Alabanza host and they have horrible customer relations.

I had a couple questions on normal priority tech support tickets that hadn't been answered for several months. Fortuneately I was able to find the answers else where by searching the internet.

I asked the guys to have something fixed on my web page and five months later it still hadn't ever been fixed.

It took two weeks for them to figure out what was wrong with the mailing list software. I had to email them several times and I think the only reason they responded was because I emailed them sooo many times.

They must have cheap servers or something, because they would be done 30-90 minutes a day vs. a friend who has Alabanza host who would go done for at most 5 minutes a week.

Getting my email was a genuine pain in the butt as the server would speratically go down from time to time and I'd be getting errors every second notifying me that one of my business accounts wasn't accessible.

THe have a 99.5% uptime garuntee. I didn't know that until I emailed them and asked if they did.

When I asked for my money back they said I'd have to leave because they can't do refunds without closing the account. (I only asked for one month when the server went down for several days)

I quickly decided to move and research other hosts. WHen I found one I emailed them to charge the money back to my card and they said "You've been with us for five months and we can't refund that time period, but we can refund the remaining time on your contract." I had a twelve month contract and I got a five month refund. I would have done something, but it was only $12.80 and I was happy just to be of of their servers.

By the way, I chose HostRocket.com, who to this point I am very happy with. Tech support is no problem, I email them and no longer than 24 hours I get a response.

There's definitely a cautionary note in there about hosts who want you to contract for long periods...

Originally posted by bacon
I'd really have to say www.HostRocket.com (http://www.HostRocket.com)

There support has been great and they get everything done for you really fast and with no problems.

Too bad they have rock music cranked up to 11 making their site intolerable.

Why would a company be so idiotic as to have music BLARING on their web site.

Not only that, check out their rates. If, for instance, you have 31 accounts, they claim to offer 750 Gig of storage and 37 Gig of bandwith, per account, for $5 per month. I'm may not be in the hosting business but from what I've read on this forum that is just not possible.

Originally posted by Threshold
Too bad they have rock music cranked up to 11 making their site intolerable.

Why would a company be so idiotic as to have music BLARING on their web site.

:confused: Geez...do you realize you are responding to a post that is nearly 3 years old! :confused:

Recycling is *good good good*!

They still have music playing.

Originally posted by etLux
Recycling is *good good good*! Speaking of recycling, where did you come from?

Still subscribed to a few very old threads?

Woah! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the name alabanza here. I haven't heard that name in a long time.

Martie is right, though...........this thread is ancient.:confused:

-Lamar

true... though oddly etLux crawled out of the darkness to post something three years later. Thought he'd gone and died...

Greg Moore

Ya know what's even weirder? Seeing HostRocket (brendan) talking about being a reseller. Now they have their own DC... crazy stuff.