if u got to http://host4you.net/valueserver.shtml then they have a dedicated server for $20/685gb (1st month), after 1st month it is still only $35/342gb... anyone done business with? I was considering for my hosting biz... he said u could get direct admin too...

anyone with info please post...


I hope this is real:D - if not :bawling: :angry:

Dose anyone maybe have a "thought"?

the site is probably the worst ive ever seen.

i wouldnt host with them

J

The site doesnt look very professional...

I'm pretty sure they also bill bandwidth via the 95th percentile method. That makes it difficult to compare their pricing to other companies that just bill for the actual transfer that was used such as Ev1 and the planet.

i noticed the un-professionalism but it is just that for the money i would be getting a dedicated server.... i think i might e-mail them ect.

usualy if it is to good to be true it is, you get what you pay for sir.

errr, i am geussing u think that it isnt what it seems... this is what i plan on getting until i'm convinced otherwise (or if my research shows something - e.g. fake or high downtime or they don't respond to e-mails)

$35/month for a dedicated server? That doesn't even cover the bandwidth.

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what do you mean, i know ive seen legit at $50.00 so $15.00 less..

you get what you pay for... just remember that we all said that...

i am talking to him oon msn right now... if people would like to learn more from him it is sentriscom@hotmail.com
so far so good...

that is his hotmail im account not email, email is hostsales@host4you.net

My little sister designed that site and the deadbeat never paid. :D

Some of the link are to the IP of a server, doesn't know about domains I guess...

If it looks to good to be true, prolly is...

i have talked to the dude directly and it seems honest, he uses pay pal too, i amtrying to get him to give me like 2 months free if i design him a site.... :D

nice server reunion... hehe


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Like other may have said....
please be aware that the max you get is what you pay for...
but sometimes you may not even get what you pay for.

like serverunion said :-
My little sister designed that site and the deadbeat never paid. :D
Now, I dont know if that's a jk or a serious statement (because of the :D at the end). But if its serious, how can you believe this giuy...& what would make you think that he's gonna give you 2 months of service after you give him your design...
anyway. good luck! (people need luck with offers like this. atleast i know that i do)

i have talked to the dude directly and it seems honest, he uses pay pal too, i amtrying to get him to give me like 2 months free if i design him a site....

Well it looks really honest to me as well, right until I get to the final pricing. You do realize that this guy is either ripping you off, or is loosing a ton of money? The datacenter space alone costs him more than $20, not to mention bandwidth, support, etc.

Please Please Please think this through a little more, and listen to everyone in this thread. I will personally be extremely upset if in two weeks you come back here complaining about how your server is *never* online.

Good luck, you'll need it.

Peter

i think i am gonna go with serverpronto then...

i think it is no harm giving a try, after all, you just lost $20, not a big deal here.. :) I see quite a number of good comment in the forum about sentris also

Took about 15 seconds for that crappy page to load on my 2MB dsl line, If their site takes that long for such a small page now slow will your services to our clients be.

A Good rule of thumb is - Its its too good to be true it probably is. (as already said above)

And another one I like - Quality is not cheap and cheap is not quality.

Edit for spelling.

Its about right, remember. Its only a 1.2ghz.

Did anyone get a server from these guys yet? I went ahead and ordered one, I know you get what you pay for, I was just looking for a good box to do test installs and things like that without having to worry about breaking a box with sites on it. I don't need 99% uptime for it. I signed up six days ago or so. Their email said setup takes 6-48 hours but no server yet. Just seeing if anyone else ordered and had one setup. Thanks.

Originally posted by Philipf
Its about right, remember. Its only a 1.2ghz.

Hardly. I still have my original Celeron 1.3ghz from Ev1 that's costing me $116/month (now used for personal sites). I'd never expect a 1.2ghz for $25/$35.

I wpuldnt recommend that what so over.... For cheap dedicated servers, go to www.serverpronto.com .... they start at $30.00 ... however, just as with anything in life, you get what you pay for.

That's a better server for the same price, which just increases my doubts about the company and quality. A decent dedicated server should run you $200+ per month, not a rediculous price like $30.

Thinking logically, the cheapest cPanel license they would be able to get is $20 or so. So even at regular price, after the free cpanel license, they are making $15/month on the server...Even if it's a $200 server, it'll take them over a year to pay off the hardware alone, not to mention the bandwidth and other expenses :)

www.whois.sc/host4you.net

lol you deffinetely get what you pay for. i doubt those prices cover any legitimate isps cost

Originally posted by nickn
Thinking logically, the cheapest cPanel license they would be able to get is $20 or so. So even at regular price, after the free cpanel license, they are making $15/month on the server...Even if it's a $200 server, it'll take them over a year to pay off the hardware alone, not to mention the bandwidth and other expenses :)

Exactly... Unless...

<<cross-post removed>>
(search the tech forum for 'dedicated server really a vps' thread by yours truly)

justposting, this is something you could try with your server...

I like how their website says it's Thursday, August 11 - even though their company is in Seattle, WA! :D

Originally posted by Hostaholic
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what do you mean, i know ive seen legit at $50.00 so $15.00 less..

Hostaholic, if you'd like to be regarded by your brain not age, don't make statements like this. If $50 is legit, then over 30% less must be also? Mr. Spock says, "Illogical."

Looks like a too good to be true. You may get it at that price, but how is their support. There is no 800 number listed, there actually is not a telephone number listed at all. They also state that tech support is provided by email and they have staff on duty for a whole "20" hours out of the day, I thought there were 24 hours in a day though! I would pay a little more money for better support and piece of mind. I recommend ServerMatrix.

Eric

I wouldn't be surprised if they were really VPS accounts.

Here's a host4you thread that's quite revealing:
(attitude, spelling of terabyte, Mark's sig etc... :roll2: )

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=269771

Originally posted by Hostaholic
i am talking to him oon msn right now... if people would like to learn more from him it is sentriscom@hotmail.com
so far so good...

So, is host4you sentris? Or what? If host4you is a reseller of sentris, as I've seen claimed on WHT, what gives with that chat handle?

Search sentris/tophosting/jovita here on WHT. You'll be up all night! ;)

My favorite is this:

Originally posted by host4you
yes, as long as we can get 100 new servers or more in a month from now, to keep such amazing deals going, or we'll be forced to shutdown. :-(

so please hurry and order as many as you can, so we can keep offering such deals.

Just an update to my previous post...

I did finally get my server from host4you. It's a full server, not a VPS as far as I can tell. I would never put accounts on this server, I got it just for testing. I always wanted a server in a DC just to use for different types of installs and stuff like that that I would not want to risk on a box with sites, but don't want/need a Pentium 4 server at $80-$120 a month for this. This place would not be good to host real sites- they charge $90.00 an hour to fix problems and they say that any server that is DOS'd will automatically be cancelled so therefore, according to them, customers SHOULD NOT do things that invite DOS attacks. Kind of a strange statement, as if DOS attacks only happen to server admins who send out handwritten invitations. In any event, Im not too worried, if I break the box with a bad install and can't fix it myself, I will just cancel the server, same if I get DOS'd.

I read many things regarding the parent company. $600 surprise charges for bandwidth overages and such are serious warning flags. Whether host4you does this or not, well - like I mentioned above, I'm not sure they aren't the parent company. Watch out.

I Know im bringing backa 2 year old thread but has anyone one tried them recently?

How did you find this thread? lol

I hope not, their site still says that the special will expire in Aug. 2004. Not very up to date.

lol, i was going through my mailbox and I had a bunch of Reply to post 'Dedicated - Too good to be true?' and I figured why not rejuvinate a 2 year old thread teehee

i think i am gonna go with serverpronto then...

You will have pain with serverpronto, be careful. They wont cancel your account, wont replace your bad hardrive and they will ask you to send a fax to cancel where fax is not working at all.

I am on 3rd day to get them cancel a non-working server, i wont have time to work on that. Its a joke company.

see here google cache
64.233.179.104 search?q=cache:AZErap-Z81YJ:www mytwistedreality com/+serverpronto+sucks&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a

Yeah, those costs seem too good to be true...
I'll repeat 'you get what you pay for'.

Site looks a bit naff too,
couldnt even be bothered to style the main text, left it to the browser default - or even worse, they chose Times New Roman :|

Not adding extra for Win2k3 Server? Hmmm...
Free OS Restore, Soft Install, Free Hardware Install, Free Kernel Recompile and free security patching? Um... That's a bit cheap. Are they desperate or stupid?

No restrictions on contents?
Subject to what? So they'd allow illegal files? Running from a basement or what?!

lol, i was going through my mailbox and I had a bunch of Reply to post 'Dedicated - Too good to be true?' and I figured why not rejuvinate a 2 year old thread teehee


As good of a reason as any! :D

Ive heard good and bad things about them.. sometimes the price isnt worth it for all the problems you have..

Bandwidth isnt good though.

Ive heard some scary stories about serverpronto now that ended with cease and desist orders (I know I spelt that wrong hehe)