Right now i have a raq3 that im not happy with it really sucks with cgi. I want to go back to virtual hosting because i know nothing about dedicated hosting even though somehow i got luckey and have been doing it for awhile now :)

Can someone tell me what this means please this is from Web Usage i guess for the hole time that i've leased the raq going buy the dates.


Report Generated 2000/09/07 04:02

Period Covered 2000/06/08 17:15 - 2000/09/07 04:04

Number of Computers Requesting Content 2959

HTML Page Requests 43380 (14.8%)

Bad Requests 65 (0%)

Total Requests 291430

Distinct Files Served 3801

Bytes Transferred 2929762422


How many GB is all thouse bytes? Im not good with math and can you give me an idea of how much GB i use per day or week, month? I guess you can with thouse status.

Can i get buy using a VIRTUAL host going buy these status? I was looking at 123hostme.com has anyone here used them before? thanxs for all the help :)


***Jen***

looks like 2.9 gigbytes to me :(

1000 bytes (give or take a few)= 1 kilobyte

edit: doh..sorry, i was feeling blond tonight

[Edited by teck on 09-08-2000 at 12:53 AM]

Conversion:
1024 bytes = 1 Kb
1,048,576 bytes = 1 Mb
1,024 Mb = 1 Gb

According to your stats, you transfered a total of:
2,73 GB between 2000/06/08 - 2000/09/07

Which mean that you transfered an average of 1,32 GB per months, 315,47 MB per week and 45,07 MB per day.

(to find out how much GB your "Byte Transfered" must be divided by (1024 x 3))

Hope this helps

so my main question is can i get buy with a virtual host? If so who would you recommend? I easly can if im only using a litte over 1gb a month? I dont get it my old host said i was using 20GB a month what gives? Could the raq be wrong or was my old host that far off? old host was communitech

***Jen***

Jen,

Judging from what other former Communitech customers have reported, Communitech was greatly inflating the amount of bandwidth they wre supposed to be using. One might think they were doing this as a way of urging many to move to a dedicated server and some did.

There was a post here a few weeks ago by another gal who had been with CT and she experienced the same thing. She moved to a dedicated server elsewhere and found her actual bandwidth usage was less than a third of what CT had told her it was.

It seems the same happened to you.

Duster is right and Ive read alot about the happenings with clients of that particular host--In all honesty Jen there are lots of several hosts that offer virtual hosting from 1GB to 10GB and more per month on their accounts.
What is your url? I am sure you will see more feedback right here on your post.

Thanks Duster :)

I don't know how a company can get buy doing that to people that's just wrong! Can anyone point me to a good honest host?


***Jen***

Jen,
I would recommend that you search for a company that has the services that meet your needs and then post your "short list" to this group. This group is very good about providing feedback on web hosting companies.
http://hostsearch.com http://webhostdir.com http://hostinvestigator.com .
Also a search in this forum will turn up some past recommendations.


[Edited by ODE on 09-08-2000 at 01:53 AM]

Well, frankly I find it appalling that a client is told something what she was, and takes it upon herself to get a dedicated server and she is only transferring this amount of bandwidth, Utterly disgusting, but if I recall this is the one that did this to several clients, as Duster pointed out?? There are choices galore for you Jen--just post your needs and check the host out by the help of forums,and by you, look at user reviews at hostsearch and more....It is a total embarrassment for me when I see things like this happening in the hosting industry.

I've been looking at

hostways.net
addr.com
123hostme
catalog.com

Has anyone here ever been hosted buy one of these? My needes are simple 50mb of disk space and CGI thats it! and a good control panel.......Communitech had me thinking i needed to go dedicated telling me i used up alot of GB thats what there email said and being new to this i didn't know any better :(

And that is stay away from ADDR. Very inconsistent tech support and problems with uptime etc. don't warrant going with them.

Catalog is recommended by others I think. The other two, not sure.

Jen,

You're welcome. A lot of companies, regardless of size, act very unprofesionally and even illegally, like 5 year old brats, closing accounts because they don't like what you said to them or about them, and similar reasons that indicate immature minds (regardless of their age). I'm not particularly litigious yet feel a few class action suits are in order to let these companies know that they can't hide in cyberspace and that there are consequences to their actions.

Here's one of the discussions of something similar, the one I alluded to earlier. The gal's name is Diana. http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=1282

Your needs are rather simple and there are honest hosts here that could help you. I suggest you look around on the forum or over at the related hostinvestigator.com However, here on the forum, you'll be able to read feedback from some of the customers of some of the companies here.

Martie,

It is disgusting and appalling, and I get what you are saying. It is terrible to have such people in the industry. However, a lot of industries and professions have the same problem, most probably. There is a small percentage at the top that excels, a small (though probably larger) percentage at the bottom that is dreadful, and varying degrees of satisfactory to mediocre in the middle.

You shouldn't be embarrased (you'd be embarrassed constantly) so long as you're not one that should be embarrassed. Of course, the ones that should be, aren't. If they cared enough to be embarrassed, they would probably care enough to do better and treat people decently.

Personaly I use http://www.stratius.com, and I think they are great. they can handle your bandwith, and if you have somthing special you need they can get it for you. I currently use about 4gigs/month and everything is working great.

I have a hosting company. If you give me your requirement I can let you know how I can help out. I might not be a good choice for you either if I can't meet your specific needs. If you're interested in finding out what I offer go to my site at http://www.cahostnet.com and check out my plans. Let me know if I can be of assistance to you. Good luck with your search. Watch out for companies that say "unlimited bandwidth". There's no such thing. Everyone pays for bandwidth. The host you host from also pays for bandwidth. If everyone uses unlimited bandwidth, they will go out of business. Just compare the amount of money that a single T1 costs these days. Very expensive. Usually, companies will buy 100 mbps and burst up to 200 mbps. Which means that on normal usage they will use 100 mbps but they can go up to 200 on occational usuage without a charge due to bandwidth spikes. This comes with a cost. All bandwidth usuage are measured. So in short watch out for those unlimited deals, it's not correct and I don't know why they say that.

Ben

People see "Unlimited" and freak out. That's like trying
to sell someone a perpetual motion machine. Just doesn't exist. But people believe it does, and will continue to purchase things that just don't exist.

Let's say one wanted to install another something to track bandwidth. What is the best thing you'd recommend, that could verify bandwidth usage for virtual sites? If this has been asked, then I will disguise my lack of searching with the added, "What is the best thing out there NOW", as in, in case something new has come out :)

I am hoping there is a free script that can be easily installed. Really hoping. Wishing.

Analog will allow you to track bandwith of a spefic site and from what i can tell its very accurate. you can download this software at http://www.analog.cx . this is of couse assuming you run a Linux/Unix server because i dont think this software supports NT. Im sure there are many other peices of software out there i just cant give you url's for those also

Originally posted by BC
And that is stay away from ADDR. Very inconsistent tech support and problems with uptime etc. don't warrant going with them.

Same here... Asked for hosting, got hosed instead... They chew the big one. Still waiting to see my credit statement this month to see if I got a refund.. I'm doubting it somehow

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

Here we go again LoL.

Jen if you are still looking for a host id recommend using http://www.tera-byte.com , Cheap bandwidth plenty of space and good fast technical support.

Think steve will let me be a online sales rep roftlmao.

Thanks nricciar, I think that is what I am looking for, and it runs linux, now just have to look at it deeper to see if I can install it :)

Actually nricciar, I'm about to try using Analog on my Win2K space. From what I've heard it does work OK on Win2K, so I'll see and report back.

Dosen't tera-byte use raqs? I wanna stay away from them :) but they do have some cheap prices hmmm

they do have fsb or whatever they are called lol.

Tera-Byte is a great company from what Ive heard here over the months. But I understand about the RAQ's , I dont trust them either :) but thats because I had a few and they do not compare with a real Linux box.