I had a customer who asked me to make him a Dedicated Server
Package that can handle around 3000gb/m,
I'm pretty new to this, so i really tried to give him the best price i could have combined and do for him without lose money.
so before i post if for him i want you to check it out and tell me
if the price is ok and what should a Add / Remove ?

Custom Built 1U
Dual 1000Mhz
2048Ram
72GB SCSI Hard Drive
Redhat 7.2
Webmin Control Panel [NOT CPanel 4.0]
10Mbs Pipe burstable to 100Mbs (NOT CAPED) [3250GB/month]
Extra Data Transfer in blocks of 150GB at US$0.80/GB negotiable down to US$0.68/GB.
Secure Datacentre using High Quality Ardent bandwidth [NOT low-end cheap cogent bandwidth].
Contract of 3 months [longer for monthly discounts e.g. 12 months contract = 3.5% monthly discount]

US$2400/month US$500 setup for 10Mbs 3250GB/month
US$2800/momth US$600 setup for 12Mbs 3900GB/month

Anyone else ever heard of Ardent before, or know what their web page is? I'm thinking this is some smaller CLEC or something... but I dunno.

They used to be CAIS.

www.ardentcomm.com

Hey,

You sure you aren't going to lose your shirt? :) Cais (ardent) can be pretty expensive, even for 10mbit. The price is good. I don't remember cais selling 1mbit for $250/mo even when you buy in quantity. We buy bandwidth from yipes! and we could barely sell it that cheap (unless we used cogent).

Ardent sells cheaper when you buy in *huge* quantity (100 of MBPS to 100s of MBPS.) I buy my space from one of ardent's bigger clients, who's willing to sell bandwidth for cheaper than ardent's prices as he gets it cheaper. It's a good deal for both of us, as I have a tech contact to talk to when I have problems that is *very* helpful and I have ardent too. Ardent would flip head over heels for you, if you were a big client of there's so when I have problems it translate to this guy having problem which translates to them fixing it earlier :)

I could probably offer those prices, only problem would be hardware. I've sent him an email, and hope we can ressolve this ASAP.

I'm *not* running off of a cogent pipe, I'm afraid of cogent and made sure I'd go with people who wouldn't give me their "cheap" bandwidth.

Geezus..
That sounds good.. herher...

Ardnet.. hmm haven't heard of them though. Can anybody post more information about them.

Thank You

Ardent was CAIS.

Website: http://www.ardentcomm.com

They tend to provide high quality bandwidth, and I really like em. What other information would you like?