Hi.
Any information about cobaltrack.com ?
are they affidable, fast, etc. ?

Thank you
Siz :D

Their prices look pretty good. You might want to contact them about whether they charge for extra IP addresses, what their back-up fees are, what their support prices are, etc.

Besides their website being annoying and several mispellings, which always drives me crazy and usually convinces me not to use a company, they look very competitive. They beat out dialtone internet which usually has the best prices, or close to it.

Hi Siz,

Cobaltrack.com sure has some great prices on dedicated RaQ's. That part of their operation is quite impressive. However, I must agree with Billy, their web site leaves much to be desired. It has very, very basic design and spelling errors on every page that I visited and I tried to visit them all. That usually is enough to make me reconsider doing business with a company.

If on the other hand, they are indeed on the "up and up", I would be interested in getting a RaQ or two from them.

~ Marcus

I am not sure how much the web site has to do with it. I have seen really nice sites on really bad hosts, and I am sure you know of a few companies with somewhat poor sites that you swear by their services.

Most likely this is the best that either the owner or the employees can do. I worked at a film and camera equipment distributor and they decided to put up a site. One of my coworkers did it. It worked, but it could have been done better.

They just didn't hire someone who could do it. Don't get me wrong- I think this is a big mistake, especially for a web based company!

I just think that a good website doesn't make a good host and by the same token, a bad site doesn't make a bad host.

We need users! Or someone willing to take the plunge :) They have a phone number...

Has anyone tried there service yet? or to call, i sent them an email..........what did you think of the pictures of there place did it look good? I didn't know what i was looking at lol I noticed when you go to sign up it takes you to visuallink-payments.com wich is theres but why do they have it that way?

I sent them 3 emails yesterday but with no response yet. Any good experiences with them?

Did anyone get any word from these people?

I just sent them an easy-to-answer presales mail and am waiting for reply.

A good thumbs-up is the website. The better it is done... the better the services. Alright, before you slagg me off I know that this is not true in some cases but look around... What do you find? You'll find that most of the top hosts have a good/OK design.

Cobaltrack's design should in my opinion never be put on display. If you are serious with your hosting service wouldn't you make sure that the frontal information desk which is the www.yourdomain.com (http://www.yourdomain.com) is attractive?

Sure, they have great prices but like it has been mention before price is not everything... Go for a major provider. Start-ups and wannabe's are likely to go down hence why it is important for your business to choose the right one.

Well, I still think there are many bad hosts with really nice sites, and thus there must (law of averages) be some really, really good hosts with not so great sites.

I sent an email to cobaltrack, it was deleted from my server after 5 days. Undeliverable. Ohhh well. This is enough to turn me away, but I suppose every server could have email problems. I sure don't think that is a *good* sign though.

Haven't tried calling. Anyone tried that? Just curious.

DellHost had the same problem the other day... no reply and their server was down. :) Chicken, so it's here you're hiding yourself eh?

I think the support ppl at cobaltrack must have heard you Chicken and are trying to me amends.

I mailed them 24 hrs ago and got two replies to the same question. From two different ppl.
:)



[This message has been edited by Taxibear (edited 07-12-2000).]

Heh Coreace, shhhhhhh, don't tell anyone. :)

Taxi- very interesting! I know it was a server prob (obviously), and will try to resend the message now.

One question. They say, "Cobalt Racks.com is a Visual Link company", and I wasn't sure if that meant they are owned by Visual Link. I sent an email to them (visual link)and they replied fairly quickly.

Chicken-

Boths replies to my mail came from visuallink.com addresses if that helps you any :)

T-bear

Heh yup, that clears it up I'd say. I did think it was odd that they mentioned RaQ's when they didn't list any on the visuallink site. I figured as much. Thankx for that info. No current users yet though eh?

PS- Visuallink has some IU cobalt like servers with Intel chips, but I don't think it has a control panel like cobalt's.

Prices for the Intel pizza boxes are similar.

Maybe the price is low becuase they only offer a few IP's per server, not like Dialtone who ofers a lot more. They have responded to all of my e-mails very quickly, most within a few hours. Maybe they are small. But after dealing with CIShit for the past year I need a breath of fresh air.

Strange observation though:


I have been hunting for a good deal on Cobalt hosting, and most (98%) of the hosts that handle Cobalts offer that 50 gigs of bandwidth, can someone explain that? Maybe they are resellers?

Hello

Cobaltrack.com is a Visuallink company, if you go to visuallink.com and then dedicated webserver you will come to cobaltrack.com.

I had a email conversation with one of their sales representativs. He was very friendly and gave me useful answers. In his last email he wrote that he is until 3 o'clock there and after this I didn't hear anything from him.

I don't have a server with them but their support looks good to me. I wrote a test support mail on midnight and 3 hours later I became an answer.
So that's it from me about cobaltrack.com.

- domi

Well as several already said they are part of visuallink... I have a friend hosting a server with them and as of lately they just plain suck... his site is thetechguide.com, BTW. anyhoo... he was having problems with mysql and was upgraded the linux kernel becuase it was suppose to fix the problems but it never came back online. here's a clip from the email he sent me(hope he doesn't mind!)
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I've come to the conclusion that the people hosting my server don't know what the hell they're doing. I keep calling them, they keep saying they'll "pass it along." Why can't I talk to the guy who'll actually fix the server? I told them, just wipe everything out, and start fresh. No biggie, right? Well, it's still not up. One guy said that he was told it went down because of a POP3 program I installed. First, I didn't install a POP3 program! Second, it was me screwing around with lilo that messed it up (I know, my bad, but still).
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so just figured i'd pass this info alone for others to know...