Cobalt RAQ 4I's 125.00 Per Month
50 Gigs

Cobalt RaQ 4i
450 MHz CPU
256MB SDRAM Memory
20.5GB IDE ATA 100
Dual Ethernet Ports
External SCSI Port
Full 'super-user' root access
Free & Unlimited IP's
Free Set-Up ( Setup with 1 to 2 days )
24x7 Server Monitoring with 100% Uptime guarantee!!
Verio OC48 Network (powered by Cisco 12000 Series Routers)

Server detales: Cobalt Info (http://www.cobalt.com/products/raq/details.html)

Netra X1's 125.00 Per Month.
50 Gigs

400MHz, 64-bit UltraSPARC processor
128MB DRAM Memory ( Memory can upgrade to 512mb or 1GB )
20GB IDE Hard Drive; Dual Ethernet
Dual Ethernet Ports
Solaris 8 Operating System
Full 'super-user' root access
Free & Unlimited IP's
Free Set-Up ( Setup with 1 to 2 days )
24x7 Server Monitoring with 100% Uptime guarantee!!
Verio OC48 Network (powered by Cisco 12000 Series Routers)

Server detales: Netra Info (http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netrax/X1/03r3SMI334.pdf)

Custom Server 300.00 Per Month
50Gigs

Dual 933 MHz PIII
512MB SDRAM Memory ( Memory can upgraded up to 2GB )
30GB IDE Hard Drive
RedHat 7.1 or FreeBSD ( Also Windows 2000 server add-on )
Full 'super-user' root access
Free & Unlimited IP's
Free Set-Up ( Setup with 1 to 2 days )
24x7 Server Monitoring with 100% Uptime guarantee!!
Verio OC48 Network (powered by Cisco 12000 Series Routers)


You may also get more bandwidth at $3.00 per gig.

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Burstable or capped?

What type of support with these plans? Please advise

along with MattG's question, can you also answer mine...

would the Cobalt RAQ 4I or Netra X1 be suitable for hosting a large (1-2 million impressions per month) vBulletin with a few thousand members?

And is there a good control panel for carrying out various webmaster tasks?

MattG,

We offer ether or and we like to leave this up to our customers.
You can tell us hey i want 40 Gigs and that's it witch would be 128k i think. I am not sure what 50 gigs comes out to i don't do the bandwidth settings. You can also ask us to leave it wide open and go with it as you please and move up in bandwidth plans as needed..


Justice,

On this if its only one big site i would say go with the Netra X1 much faster but no control panel like Cobalts. We can install WebMin with no problem for you witch would make it easy to setup stuff..

Let me know if this helps guys...

thanks for the quick reply...

how are you able to offer 100% uptime? what happens in the event of site outage?

also, do you have any vBulletin sites hosted on one of your Netra packages? If so, could you please list a couple (here or in PM). I'd like to see an example of the speed...

To tell the truth i am not sure there is any...
I really don't go look for them on out network unless i see them :), http://www.vanhalenlive.net/forums/ is one but its on freebsd i have not seen any vBulletins on the suns that i know of.. But they should run it fine.. A 400 Sun is about the same as a 700 Mhz PIII so there should be no problems..

http://www.vanhalenlive.net/forums/ is only on a amd 800 Mhz so they will run about the same speed really...

that forum is relatively tiny. if i need more ram (256 for example), how much would that cost me?

and can you answer my question about the uptime guarantee?

thanks

You would get a faster response by emailing sales@vortechhosting.com

teck: Yea some times sales is faster but i dont mind i am here a lot my self.. hehe


Justice: Yea that borad is small.. Just wanted to show you.. I just really don't have anything big on a Netra that i know about yet we just started doing Netras about 2 months ago.. I know for sure it will be more then fine.. What type server is the site on now and what is the site if you don't mind me asking.
As for the ram would only be about $80 bucks really depends on cost and if we just have what it needs in stock..


p.s if i messed any of this up i have been drinking and at the club to night sorry.. ;)

Originally posted by Vortech
What type server is the site on now and what is the site if you don't mind me asking.

my site: SoundCircuit.com (http://www.soundcircuit.com/)
the forum: Circuit Board (http://www.soundcircuit.com/cb/)

The current server info isn't really relavant, because I'm about to switch from UBB to vBulletin. From what I've heard, they use totally different amounts of resources. You can see that I'm dealing with a reasonable amount of members and traffic though. I'm still trying to do more research on the best server specs needed to run a vBulletin efficiently.

Originally posted by Justice
The current server info isn't really relavant, because I'm about to switch from UBB to vBulletin. From what I've heard, they use totally different amounts of resources.

vBulletin is server-intensive in different ways, it will run very happily with a few users online on free webspace, but if you start to get more than 10 users online you will need to think about getting a more serious hosting solution, while 30 users online at the same time will probably be the time to start thinking about a dedicated server. - It's difficult to say how intensive it is when compared to UBB - UBB is intensive on the server's disk system, vB is intensive on the CPU and memory.

Justice:
Well i think you would be more then fine on the netra X1. Just as NORRITT said it is more CPU and Ram being used by VB, the cpu you should never have problems with on this system as the UltraSPARC is very fast. The ram as you know we can just slap in when you need more not a big problem.. The hard drive is ATA100 and as VB is not as big on HD as UBB there should be no problems there ether.. :)

Also i think i missed the up time guarantee question you had... We guarantee up time by out to the Internet this would not of course be able to cover if you crash you box.. Our SLA gear checks every 30 sec to over 15 point around the Internet off our network. If more then 1/2 of these go out at any time you account be credited. But you must let us know as well that it was down.. I can send you a copy of the SLA if you would like. Just send me you e-mail..

Let me know if this is of any more help...

Also we have a few single CPU servers as well.. I for got to add these to the list above..


Custom servers 2: $250.00 Must Per Pay first 6 months on this deal.

933 MHz PIII
128MB SDRAM Memory ( Memory can upgraded up to 1GB for $250 one time fee. Must be ordered at setup for this price.)
EIDE 20.0GB 7200RPM, UATA 100. ( Can be upgaded. E-Mail for Pricing of upgrading Hard Drive. Let me know the size you need.)
RedHat 7.1 or FreeBSD ( Also Windows 2000 server add-on )
Full 'super-user' root access
Free & Unlimited IP's
Free Set-Up ( Setup with 1 to 2 days )
24x7 Server Monitoring with 100% Uptime guarantee!!
Verio OC48 Network (powered by Cisco 12000 Series Routers)