Tera byte (4webspace) just offered their customers an upgrade special on their ram! $100 will boost your memory to 512!!! Thats one hell of a deal. :cool:

It sure is a hell of a deal! Already sent a "gimme gimme" to them :D

Completely agree, this is mega-wowww, I even checked the email it came from to make sure it was for real ;)

WOW what i great deal!!!

It is a great deal. However, I don't think it makes up for the slow connection from time to time. But it's a start :D

At 5:25pm EDT (New York City, US) I replied, telling them that they can take the server down anytime to perform the upgrade.

Just now, an hour later, I received the following confirmation:

The response to this offer has been very good. [I suspect that is an understatement - mike]
What we are doing once payment clears is taking down the servers and adding the ram in the order the requests have come in to us. Your server will most likely come down within the next 30 - 60 minutes. The upgrade will take ~ 10 minutes.

Thank you


Typical of the service I've come to expect from 4WS.

Zolbian you are right, some times I wished I never used their services then a deal like this
comes and changes my opinion all together :)

I hope Tera byte come to its senses and dump Alternet

Originally posted by kickster
Zolbian you are right, some times I wished I never used their services then a deal like this
comes and changes my opinion all together :)

I hope Tera byte come to its senses and dump Alternet

Tera-Byte doesn't peer with ALTER.NET. Either your ISP does, or the backbone it goes through does, and that's why you see ALTER.NET in your route.

You can buy a 256 RAM chip for $20.00. Look at the post on this board to see this. Also, it is a smart move for them; they make a few quick bucks and they decrease their support because many issues with RAQ's are RAM related.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
You can buy a 256 RAM chip for $20.00.
where? I need to up my ram cheaply :D

We get ours from Chip Merchant in San Diego for $22.00

Try here - (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=14435)

thanks a lot!!! I guess dedicated server companies simply charge monthly costs for ram as a way of making a clean profit per month ... instead of doing a one time cost ...

Originally posted by diyoha
thanks a lot!!! I guess dedicated server companies simply charge monthly costs for ram as a way of making a clean profit per month ... instead of doing a one time cost ...

Well, there is all that extra electricity to run those extra memory chips. :D

I already had 160MB (32+128) in my raq , today i pay 100$ for a replacement (not addition) of 512MB.

what if people already had 288 MB (256+32), did they need to pay 100$ for the same 512MB replacement?

pff c'mon its a great deal.

Although i don't think i would ever need this amount of ram on my Raq3 with 80 sites on it (64mb and lightly used 33%).

We've just upgraded our server from 256mb ram to 512mb.

Think about what other RAQ suppliers charge for ram. Normally if you get 512mb ram your paying in access of $200 a month plus a one time setup fee. This Special is unbeatable, $100 one time fee to have my RAQ whacked up to that amount of RAM i regard as outstanding.

Originally posted by jakis
I already had 160MB (32+128) in my raq , today i pay 100$ for a replacement (not addition) of 512MB.

what if people already had 288 MB (256+32), did they need to pay 100$ for the same 512MB replacement?

actually noone should have 160 or 288 megs of ram the prices on the page are upgrade prices so if you requested a 128 meg upgrade the 32 meg dimm would be removed and the 128 meg dimm would be put in. if you have both someone made a mistake when upgrading you, but no big deal i have no idea what to do with a few thousand 32 meg dimms anyhow :)


Steve

Donate them to me Keeg i've got a few computers that could do with a bit more RAM :D

Ok,

Apart from the fact that yes - you can ger 256mb for around $25.00 (thus 512mb is costing TB roughly $50.00 USD -- although I suspect cheaper through wholesale prices) -- I think we're *all* helping them further. We're all paying for the RAM upgrades but forgetting that - when you decide to leave 4WS or migrate to a *real* server (just kidding) - they (4WS) keep both the RaQ and the memory (512mb) you've paid for! ... hum, just a thought.

I still love Tera-Byte - and I have equal respect for the CIO and TB marketing department with their '0day' - sales techniq's. *grin*

Anyway, long live our RaQs, big and small.

moz.

Memory Upgrades *
128MB to 256MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $29.00
256MB to 512MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $69.00
128MB to 512MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $79.00


That's Rackshack prices. Now look at the tera-byte special and tell me thats not good.

Blimey! so over a year you'd could end up paying $977 for a 128MB to 512MB upgrade at Rackshack :eek:

Now u see why i host with 4webspace.com and not RackShack.

I wasn't commenting on it being a good/bad deal - just stating what I thought about it in the 'bigger' picture.

moz.

Originally posted by Technics
Memory Upgrades *
128MB to 256MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $29.00
256MB to 512MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $69.00
128MB to 512MB Memory Upgrade $29.00 $79.00


That's Rackshack prices. Now look at the tera-byte special and tell me thats not good.
depends on your situation.

with raqshack ... you get more transfer/month (150 -> 100) ... you get a better machine (raq4i -> raq3), and more memory upfront (128 -> 32)

Also 4webspace is not really taking any more orders on the raq3 (according to their web site) although they sell the raq 4i ... which is 200/mo)

so for me rackshack is better ... now maybe lonterm ... when I need to grow (if I *need* more ram) then 4webspace may be better ....)

David

4ws already know all raqs will eatup more bandwidth after ram upgrade , maybe 50GB/mo increased each (can cost them additional 50$/mo). So 50$ profit could not make them any profit.

Originally posted by jakis
4ws already know all raqs will eatup more bandwidth after ram upgrade , maybe 50GB/mo increased each (can cost them additional 50$/mo). So 50$ profit could not make them any profit.

I do not understand your point. Are you saying that 4ws made a mistake? since by increasing the ram on their raqs they would increase the amount of bandwith the raqs could use. So people who were not using anything close to the 100gig limit start using more thus costing 4ws more money
or
it was a smart move because people where were close to the 100gig limit would now easily go over and then they would start making more money by charging for the excess bandwidth
or
(a third point I haven't considered)

let me know what you meant

thanks

David

Will 4ws charge excess bandwidth instantly if a raq go beyond? Over bandwidth usage is not a sudden burst, so people should be prepared?

Guess 4ws though of a situation that people spend more bandwidth but not reach 100G limit. Hmm..you have good point of for the excess bandwidth . Not sure if 4ws though of this as well ?

i think of bandwidth first whenever i choose to make a change. Yes i did think of it for this change as well , but the raised bandwidth costs in no way compare to the increased tech response time associated with fixing under-rammed servers. peopel using more than 100 gigs therefore paying more in bandwidth charges wont go up because all of those people already had sufficient ram, overall bandwidth use wont rise that much immediatly (they need more customers to increase bandwidth) but it will over time because of well running servers causing repeat customers to a site.

Steve

Now there's something marketing people didn't think off:

Need more visitors? Add more RAM! :D

I see a lot of replies to 100$ for 512 MB of mem. I cant seem to find this figure on the 4WS site.

Keeg, can you clarify before I order RAM, that an upgrade from 32 to 512 is $100 usd.

Its a hell of a deal if thats the case.

I once put a Holly decal on a Chevy Citation and got into the 12's.

major stores have similar deals

I know BestBuy (bestbuy.com) has 256 for about $45

later

David

How? When? Where did you get this email? They must have missed me! I'll call them and see if they still have any left over........;)