I've poked my head around searching for a web host that I could actually afford and Tera-Byte.com seemed to be a good deal for only $99 a year.

I'm going to be running vbPortal or maybe Nuke2vb when it comes out .. and need a web host that can handle vBulletin ..

Does Tera-Byte.com seem like a good deal..

Being a full time college student and full time gas jockey ;) money isn't one of those features I have a lot of so I prey on the quote " more expensive doesn't always mean the best quality "

Here is the plan I'm looking into for $99 a year

http://www.tera-byte.com/hosting.html

Plan #4

If anyone knows of a more reliable and cheaper web host just hollar :-) I'm bound to be overwhelmed with the idea of saving money lol

I tried this webhost last week,
and when i check the site usage on the "site admin" page, it said "4 GB bandwidth tranfer" in 5 days,
and then i asked them, they said the "site admin" is not accurate, the actual bandwidth tranfer was "7GB".

they doubled up bandwidth...i think they are cheating or something. so i remove my account and got full refund :D

Tera-Byte seems to have a good reputation, but when I was checking their dedicated boxes I noticed that they throttle bandwidth. For example, a dedicated box with 81 Gig transfer is throttled to 256Kbps. This means that in order to achieve 81Gig transfer the pipe would have to be utilized at 100%, 24 hours a day which is unrealistic. I would expect about 20Gig transfer on a 256K at the most. At $160 just for bandwidth it works out to $8/Gig which is very expensive compared to the going rate of $3.

I don't know if they throttle shared boxes as well but I would ask them. And you will be on a shared RAQ4.

Hope this helps.

throttled bandwidth is a way for customer to not experience higher bills than they expect on their dedicated pipe and its quite easy for an 81 gig customer to utilize 81 gigs in a month. also you better check your calculater 162.50 for 81 gigs works out to a little more than 2.00 a gig not 8.00

Steve

I contacted Tera-byte.com to make sure I was not going to be scammed if I had applied for a package deal with them. I asked about the bandwidth adjustments etc.. and this was the CEO's reply


the situation he is refering to is highly unusual, of all the accounts ive
ever looked up this would be the first one i have ever seen that has used
more bandwidth than he thought he had. because i never actually looked at the
stats page i would be inclinded to believe the user didnt know how to read
his stats as apposed to the number from our router being higher. ive been
doing webhosting for six year i have hundreds of thousands of accounts and i
do no advertising, all the accounts i have were built from word of mouth
advertising if i was cheating people this would not be possible, also if i
were cheating people would he have gotten a full refund as he stated?


Steve Keyser
CEO
Tera-byte Dot Com Inc


To be honest you can tell if people are real "professionals" by the way their text/tone is set in their replies. I'm thinking this is just a handful of people running sites off their PC's to make a buck :-)

* The use of INC. is highly overused anymore LoL*

I'm not too knowing when it comes to Web Hosts ..

I'm planning to run vbporta/vbulletin only..
with probably about 100 users for now ( if I'm lucky )

Would this package #4 w/ Tera-Byte.com work out?

See if you think I'm knocking Tera-Byte.com I'm not .. I just want to make sure I'm not going to have my CC autobilled for 100's of dollars for services I'm not being rendered ..

Not sure about everyone else but Money is not a surplus for me ;-)

Originally posted by Keeg
its quite easy for an 81 gig customer to utilize 81 gigs in a month.

<sarcasm>Yes, very easy... if all they're trying to do is send as many packets as possible.</sarcasm>

Unfortunately, there are two factors which make it impossible to *usefully* use the full 256kbps for an entire month. The first is TCP: TCP slows down horribly when it reaches a bottleneck and unless there are large buffers (on the order of 128kB) on both sides of the bottleneck it will not use more than about 85% of the "available" bandwidth.

The second factor is simple demographics: There are more people in certain parts of the world, and daily bandwidth requirements vary by roughly a factor of two. Unless you do not care about performance, this will limit average bandwidth usage to around 75% of the peak.

Practically speaking, I'd be quite surprised if any of your "81GB" customers manage to use more than half of that.

I'm pretty satisfyed with my service from tera-byte. When i had or assumed i had a problem with there service steve called me up and spoke at length about the problems and afterwards i was very happy with what i have.

Now and then people complain of speed problems. They had a major one this week but that was with there upstream provider which i have to say was fixed rather quickly once they were made aware. However i don't think it was fixed properly since everything grinds to a halt every few hours.

Support is always fast, I've never had any problems with billing. I've gone from being a virtual user of theres to leasing one of there RAQ3's.

I'm thinking this is just a handful of people running sites off their PC's to make a buck :-)

* The use of INC. is highly overused anymore LoL* [/B]

I think you may find them a little larger than that. If I'm not mistaken they're the largest hosting provider in Canada?

Greg Moore

At least one of the larger ones yes, far as I know. And the 'overused INC' is simply how the business is formed/registered. It is not under nor overused. You will find many companies either DBA, Inc., LLC, etc., all of which are various forms of registering a business.

"Highly overused INC"

HAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thats like saying living in a house is out of style

Well from what I can tell it's just a couple of people running servers.

As for largest in Canada *lol* that's not saying much. That's not a knock on Canada, btw. It's simply saying that majority of the web hosts are in the USA, because that is where the internet usage is the strongest.

When it comes down the specifics...

Incorporated is usually used for company's who are in conglomerate with other companies that are already in existence; that is what the term "Incorporated" means. It can even mean to have a legal corporation, but then again "Tera-Byte.com" does not classify as a "corporation" either.

People toss around "CEO" and "INC" with little if any business background. There are reasons for the terms and now a days everyone is a "CEO" of something and sometimes mislabeling their sites as of they are a corporation or an industry. People who sell services should stick to being just "small businesses" and not try to step it up by putting themselves in classes where they do not belong.

Tera-Byte.com maybe a leading Canadian web host but they are far from a "corporation" and really far from having a "CEO."

What's next? They claim to have a "COO" too LoL

Actually we are incorporated, we do have shareholders, we do have a board of directors, I am the Elected CEO by that board of directors. I do have 1.4 million customers and I run the whole thing from an office on the 9th floor of the CN Tower in Edmonton Alberta Canada, so if my English writing skills don't impress you that's fine I'm not here to impress you with that. I'm here to run the best web hosting company in existence, I hope to soon add that to my sig as well :)

Steve

Ohh and im also "Acting COO" as we do not have one yet,
however there is a CFO and a CTO

Ah, the arrogance of the young!
People toss around "CEO" and "INC" with little if any business background
I guess being a sophomore and gas jokey has given you adequate business background to set straight the misguided masses.

Thank you.

Whats COO ??

COO = Chief Operations Officer

Steve

Originally posted by Sinema
Incorporated is usually used for company's who are in conglomerate with other companies that are already in existence; that is what the term "Incorporated" means. It can even mean to have a legal corporation, but then again "Tera-Byte.com" does not classify as a "corporation" either.

Tera-Byte.com maybe a leading Canadian web host but they are far from a "corporation" and really far from having a "CEO."

What's next? They claim to have a "COO" too LoL

Sinema, You are simply incorrect in this case. The definition of 'incorporated' you gave is only *one* of the possible definitions and *not* the correct one in this context. If you were to incorporate your business, the business would be considered a corporation, and every corporation must have a CEO. I don't think you've researched this much, or you wouldn't be posting such inaccurate information.

They do the same as a managing director??

Sorry thick brit.

I'm not sure but it does sound reasonable, a COO generally functions as an office manager coordinating between the CFO, CTO, CEO, lower level management and so on, generally keeping the operation doing what the CEO wants the operation to do. I have one picked out but she cant start until Sept so I have a few more months of really long days :)

Thanks, Happy working.

Originally posted by Sinema


To be honest you can tell if people are real "professionals" by the way their text/tone is set in their replies. I'm thinking this is just a handful of people running sites off their PC's to make a buck :-)


http://trueblue.cobalt.com/potm/tera-byte.php

Good call.:rolleyes:

i've had my site at tera-byte for almost a month...so far so good
i hope they don't double my bandwidth usage like that guy said, cuz then i'll be majorly fudged!

Indeed. I was on their shared servers for 6 months and I've had a RAQ3 with them for another 6 months. They're definitely one of the best - atleast better than SweeeetHomes and TheCoolHost [the ones I tried before!]

"I do have 1.4 million customers and I run the whole thing from an office "-keeg

wowwww !!!! keeg ! how do you manage that ? you mean you have 1.4 m on shared and ded. servers ?? naw ! it must be including spaceport and any other business you might have

tell me - how you guys manage to respond to email so fast with so maaany clients? how many persons are there sitting there ( without food and sleep) ? I find it difficult to manage even 50 mails per day -
webdude once said he manages that with microsleep which he is about to patent.

now another thing -1.4 m clients is a LOT of money - you should set a noble example by making extra bw free for the poor shared customers..he..he...

btw - keeg - why you dont allow a forum at terabyte - it would be so cooool and nice :)

yeah, poor people like me, who never get a single penny :(

If I'm not mistaken they're the largest hosting provider in Canada?

Unless things have changed, Webhosting.com, Superb and Softcom have the largest *paying* customer base for Canada.

Actually we are incorporated, we do have shareholders, we do have a board of directors, I am the Elected CEO by that board of directors.

This doesn't mean anything. A one person show can incorporate and say this.

I feel sorry for you keeg. You offer very low pricing and you grow fast. However what seems to be the standard here is that you get all these penny-pinchers who can't believe any other company other then their own wishes to make money. They complain when they pay for service, then bitch when support is slow, then they release venom if they don't get the answer they *wanted* to here. Is it worth the trouble? To me, hell no. We keep our prices above this 'mendoza' line to avoid these people. We are happy to see them bounce from one low cost provider to the next. By the time they get to us, they are educated, willing to pay extra for service, and have other things to do then cry about paying $1.51 for bandwidth, while there buddy gets it for $1.50. :bawling:

Originally posted by Keeg
I do have 1.4 million customers and I run the whole thing from an office on the 9th floor of the CN Tower in Edmonton Alberta Canada


The CN Tower is located in Toronto, Ontario.

Originally posted by pootp


The CN Tower is located in Toronto, Ontario.

http://www.publib.edmonton.ab.ca/infofile/detail.cfm?subject_detail=Buildings%20-%20Edmonton%20-%20C.N.%20Tower

http://www.google.com/search?q=CN+tower+edmonton

Dont do you think Steve will be extremely dumb if he has all his support people and stuff in Ontario and keeps the servers in Edmonton? ...duh! ...

And UmBilly Cord, You dont seem to get the point here - We get good stuff PLUS good prices. Both of them. If we have an offer to get both of them, why the hell shouldnt we take it? ...

You dont seem to get the point here - We get good stuff PLUS good prices. Both of them. If we have an offer to get both of them, why the hell shouldnt we take it? ...


Do some searches about the subject. You will see what I mean. There are two post tonight that back what I am talking about. So how long have you had your server with them?

As far as "taking it", go for it. Low cost and good service is not easily had. Just don't post here 2 months later saying they suck because they had one late support response.

I highly reccomend Readyhosting. The plan is great, only 99 us a year and you have unmetered transfer. Now, i've had one site there for 2 years, and another for one. I havnt had any problems, even at one stage where one of the sites was getting 1,000,000 unique visitors a week and a lot of streamed media was being downloaded. The support is great but most of all the features. They will even register your domain for free.

http://www.readyhosting.com/

By the way.. I checked back and did a search of readyhosting and i've seen a lot of negatives. For a 99 dollar a year host they are fantastic. You cant expect something for nothing. But I havn't had problems so far :)

Oh one time though on new years, someone called up pretending to be our site admin and got the password and deleted our site. That was resolved though. And as far as downtime goes, we havn't had problems.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord



Do some searches about the subject. You will see what I mean. There are two post tonight that back what I am talking about. So how long have you had your server with them?

As far as "taking it", go for it. Low cost and good service is not easily had. Just don't post here 2 months later saying they suck because they had one late support response.

I've been with them for more than year. 6 months on a shared server and almost 7 months now with a dedicated RAQ. Every host has its share of problems, as long as they're solved - Its good.

I have been with Tera-Byte for several months now, and it is the best host I have used thusfar. I had a choice between Tera-Byte and HostRocket, and I feel I made the right choice ;)

I have not submitted a lot of support requests, but those that I have, have been answered quickly and very politely.

Also, on more than one occasion, I called the 1-800 number on their site and someone picked up on the FIRST RING! (I was surprised too). Usually, these calls are about downtime and servers which require a reboot due to minor technical errors, etc.

Its not usual that the COO or CEO or whatever (lol) of a company answers technical questions, but Steve is the kind of person that will go the extra mile to help you out.

This isn't advertising, just my experience with Tera-Byte.

-Shawn