How about Burst.Net? I want to host a dedicated server to start a hosting company.

What can you recomend? I think I need at least 256MB of RAM, P3-750MHz (or higher), and I really like SCSI drives:). Fast connection is needed too:).

I think much about the traffic... To my mind $4 per GB is too much. But I can get 50GBs for $150 - it's $3 per GB.

Well www.venturesonline.com seems to de good, but their set-up fees:(.

Well, currently I'm looking at "Special 6" at burst.net.

PS: No set-up fees at Burst.Net and resonable prices. What's the catch? How can be IPs unlimited?

I just read some threads about Burst...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18445

and

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19059

Well now I'm not sure that Burst is a good variant...

But than which one is the best? Venturesonline?

To be honest, when someone asks, "Who is the best host?" - or variant thereof, they are better off just reading a few pages of the dedicated forum.

I would recommend VO if you could afford it.

Originally posted by Steve_B
I just read some threads about Burst...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18445

and

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19059

Well now I'm not sure that Burst is a good variant...

But than which one is the best? Venturesonline?

as far i know Burst, one of the guys from team Sean is active on this forms. There prices are good and i have seen many happy and less Unhappy customer of burst. I personally think burst.net is good and worth to give a try.

As far i know, Burst.net have good infrasturcture and support staff which is the basic requirement for any dedicated provider. They also have there own NOC. Reset you can find yourself in this forms.

About Unlimited Ips,

they may be having many Block D ip addresses. Actually Ip addresses doesn't cost much and you are not going to use 1000 Ips on one server. Anyway you may confirm with them before order about IP address.

cheers and keep us update with your experiences.

We just got a server from Burst and are very happy with it. Sean and crew have taken good care of us so far (special thanks to John H, who helped me with my name servers).

Our support requests were answered quickly and overall, we are very happy with Burst.

Originally posted by mahinder
cheers and keep us update with your experiences.

will do!

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some guy that I really can trust told me that he's satisfied with Interserver. Their prices are really great! And $3 is less then $4 (who could knew:))... well, how abot that one?

VO is too expensive...

And I looked at rackshack.net... prices are just... well, GReaT... But what's the catch? 300 gigs for $100? Can't belive...

And I don't know how to work with RAQs... Is there any defference?

And the last question: is there any companies with good reputation offering traffic for less then $3 per gig?

Although there were quite a few complaints about them awhile ago, there havent been any lately, every company goes through tough times its about how well they deal with those times thats important, and from not seeing any complaints lately i would have to say they have dealt well.

Originally posted by Steve_B


And I looked at rackshack.net... prices are just... well, GReaT... But what's the catch? 300 gigs for $100? Can't belive...

And I don't know how to work with RAQs... Is there any defference?

And the last question: is there any companies with good reputation offering traffic for less then $3 per gig?

rackshake.net is cool. there is no catch on bandwidth. I have seen 10's of clients on this form having raq with them and are using more then 100 gb - 200 gb and are very satisfied. Actually they run on hype that not many customers will use 300 gb per month (not majority of clients) and that is true. Not ever body use that much bandwidth.

As per my knowledge on 1 RAQ can host around 300 domains but lack security. I have seen on internet that RAQs can be hacked easily because of security holes in that. Also there are little chances for hardware upgrade and are very costly. So i will like to stay away from RAQs. But bandwidth with rackshake.net is amazing.

About interserver they are very good in providing support. You may go with them without any doubt. Mike is the main guy who i think run the company. Thumbs up for interserver.
;)

Originally posted by mahinder
As per my knowledge on 1 RAQ can host around 300 domains but lack security. I have seen on internet that RAQs can be hacked easily because of security holes in that. Also there are little chances for hardware upgrade and are very costly. So i will like to stay away from RAQs. But bandwidth with rackshake.net is amazing. ;)

Rackshack *whew* just had to get that off my chest...

Mahinder, the deal is that you should have also seen that any linux server could be hacked easily, *if* updates and exploit patches aren't not applied. This is the same with *any* server.

The one difference you should note is that, if a paricular exploit is found, due to the modification of the RedHat OS, you must (or really should) not upgrade certain things the way you'd traditionally do it on a standard RedHat machine. Updates from Cobalt can be slower, and thus this is the issue.

From what I know, there is *very* little in the way of possibility of hardware upgrade. Processor cannot be updated and most seem to not recommend installing a second HD. Another limitation is the # of slots for ram (only two) for a maximum of 512MB. Ohhh, and the CP can be buggy, patches to fix things sometimes flog the box.

*These* are the limitations of the machines, just to clear up whatever you've read which seems somewhat inaccurate, or at least incomplete.

Thanks to all of you! You've been helpfull, but I still have some questions to ask:

Is there any companies offering some cheap traff. with Intel based dedicated servers?