Hi,

I was looking at tera-byte.com,catalog.com and dialtoneineternet.com....

For tera like you said, their dedicated is basically leasing a line for eg 512 Kbps from them, thus my transfer is only limited by the amount of data the line could push.

However, the dedicated over at catalog and dialtone, there is only a limit on the transfer. They do not allow you to choose what speed. So does this means, it is no longer DEDICATED? which means it is just the same as co-location where they just hook you up to their network and the bandwidth is shared by all user? If it is dedicated 10MB, but they limit you on the transfer, i would not mind.

Between, which one is better, Catalog or dialtone... someone said Catalog just experience some problem on the 23rd due to Flood in Oklahama... But my friend who is studying in Oklahama told me that the weather there is disastrous ... have tornado & so on .... If everytime they have a nature event, will our server be down?

Please advise....

aaron

If you don't have the choice of the line speed and they don'T mention what it is anywhere, you are right. You are sharing it with everybody else in the place OR they hook you up on a dedicated line with burst... But I doubt they would do that.

As for natural disaster, a power failure can be easily overcome because of UPS and generator systems. However, in the case of a tornado where the fiber links are broken... ouch :)

I don't think that would happen often though... They most likely protect their cables or they would run out of business in no time.

As for teh choice of which company is better than the other, I honestly have no idea, I leave you to the hands of whoever else knows.

As far as worrying about down time with catalog.com don't they do everything in there power to keep there systems online. They are one of the oldest hosting companies out that should speak for its self. Every host will have some down time now and then its just nature.
As far as line speed I just got a server from catalog and I am very happy with the speeds I am getting and I am sure you would get good speeds from tera-byte.

I think your question has been answered but, yep, often you are put on a line that is shared by many. In that case it depends on the overall capacity of the provider's lines. This means that you *may* experience slowdowns due to the other users on the line. Choosing a dedicated 512 Kpbs line might provide you with a more stable level of service, but the two companies you mentioned are well connected and I doubt you'd have problems between the three.

Chicken,

A 512k dedicated line vs shared open bandwidth line with X amount of transfer both has its advantages and dis-advantages.

However.

Those 512k lines all share one big line, they just don't burst as high thats all :).

Heh yeeup, in the end it goes to the same place. :)

I think i should clarify something here about the 512k package and all the other ones i have listed.
the kb/s is only an indication of what your max speed would be if you used an equal amount of bandwidth 7 days a week 24 hrs a day. what a person does actually have is a 10 meg feed capable of x gigs of transfer over a 30 day period. the only reason its written that way, is quite frankly because some people dont know what a gig of traffic really is. We do this so you dont have any suprises at the end of the month.

Steve
Tera-byte