Hello everyone,

Anyone heard of BoostedBox.com before?

I surf and get to this page http://www.boostedbox.com/index.php?action=ded and didn't believe my eyes about the prices they charge for dedicated boxes :eek:

:stickout

Happy New Year!

Kindest regards,
Choon

Holy Sh*t!!! Check out their shared hosting plans...
5GB Webspace
100GB monthly transfer
All for $14.00/month!!!!
:eek:

Well.. hummn..

Do a trace on boostedbox.com and you'll see that they are selling RackShack servers.

How are they doing it so cheaply (well below RS's pricing)

"The Cobalt servers have easy to use control panel, and can host up to 255 virtual sites on 1 IP address!"

That *slightly* less than true statement makes me wonder.. 255?

Not without "unapproved" modification.

More power to them if they can sell servers for less than they are paying for them. Unless they have purchased so many tht they got a discount..

Shortness

Why can't you host 255 sites on 1 IP address? Theoretically you can host as many as you want -- or am I missing something?

They're site seems to be hosted at rackshack....

Just an observation "From the Streets of L.A"

Boosted means stolen on the streets... don't know why they'd choose that name... stolen server .com :-)

Drew

Originally posted by bombino
Why can't you host 255 sites on 1 IP address? Theoretically you can host as many as you want -- or am I missing something?

From what I know about the cobalts, they have a 200 limit coded in.. it can be changed and you could host more but I think it would void the warranty likely.. My point is, they don't ship that way and it sounds a bit.. overblown...

Shortness

hosting more than 200 sites on a 450Mhz RaQ would not be too healthy...:D

How can they offer those pricing on ded servers and be on RS they must be a con because RS doesnt even offer some of those packages 600 gigs transfer duel 800 with scsi hd's for 100$/month... If they actually could offer those things for those price's i'd be buying straight away ...

Payment through PayPal only (ded servers).
How professional :D
This is a joke..

Again and agian... if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Drew

Hi everyone,

The following are some email replies from them to me. The top is the latest reply and see how good *they* reply my email :D

FYI ;)

Cheers!

Regards,
Choon

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Subject: Re: Some questions about your dedicated server deal
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:24:40 +0100

Hi!
Fee/30 = 1 day's fee.
We own a data centre, and the server is in the USA.
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Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: Some questions about your dedicated server deal

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

What do you mean by fee/30?

Do you own your own data centre or if not... where will be the server located?

Thanks.

Regards,
Choon
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Hi!
We have been providing services since June 2001, but our servers went online on Jan 2001, becouse we were testing... We guarantee 99.9% uptime, and if we get down, we refund
1. if the downtime is less then a day then monthly fee/30
2. if the downtime is more then a day then the whole monthly fee. Bandwidth is measured actual. Each server plans have IP's included. If you need more IP's then 4 IP addresses are $5/month.
We allow adult content both on web hosting services and on dedicated servers. We can provide: IRC, ICQ, E-mail and phone support Reboot is free. No, sorry we don't accept PayPal yet, but we are planning to add PayPal support at around february. We can take check from overseas, and also wire transfer... Network is:
Verio OC3 Link (155Mbps), Savvis OC3 Link (155Mbps), ELI DS3 Link (45Mbps), Sonet OC3 (155Mbps), Cogent GB Link (1000Mbps)

Of course, you can resell the space on your server, and you can run a web hosting company...
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:32 AM
Subject: Some questions about your dedicated server deal

Hi,

May I know the following:

1. How long have your company been providing these services (web hosting/dedicated servers etc.)?
2. How's your uptime guarantee? 99.9%? What if you can't meet it?
3. Bandwidth is measured in actual, 95th or average calculation?
4. How much is to get additional IP?
5. Do you allow adult content?
6. What type of support can you provide? 24/7/365 email support or chat or both or etc.? Any phone support? Reboot is free or what?
7. Do you accept Paypal payment?
8. Do you accept check from overseas?
9. Network connection details?
10. Can I use the dedicated box to run web hosting business?

That's all for the time being.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Regards,
Giam

Why does it hurt so much to say you resell or are located in a datacenter that you don't own?

We all know that he's overselling and basically gambling....

Edit: I just looked at the site and noticed that he was selling dedicated servers way below what rackshack is charging. I dunno how that works. The original post I made was based on one of the virtual hosting plans someone here mentioned.

Hmm Hosted through SONET? AFAIK Sonet is a type of data transfert

symetrical optical network or something along those lines? :eek:

Verio OC3 Link (155Mbps), Savvis OC3 Link (155Mbps), ELI DS3 Link (45Mbps), Sonet OC3 (155Mbps), Cogent GB Link (1000Mbps)

I think I agree with you about overselling..

He may just have installed a system of "virtual servers" similar to VMware on his rackshack box, and hopes noone will see the difference? Thus letting him install 10 or so "dedicated server" into his one dedicated rackshack box. After all, most ded servers (I said "most") use less than 5% of the server's resources.
Same goes for bandwidth.

I dunno, it kinda makes sense I think.. After all, what is legally defined as a "dedicated server" .. or a "virutal private server"? No legal definitions after all, so he can call his "packages" the way he wants, I dunno..

In any case, it's just wrong..

Originally posted by web_res
I just looked at the site and noticed that he was selling dedicated servers way below what rackshack is charging. I dunno how that works. The original post I made was based on one of the virtual hosting plans someone here mentioned.

Originally posted by phyxius


[QUOTE]You can host 255 sites on one IP address. This is set up in the configuration files. I can get up to 30, 85, or even 255 domains on 1 IP address depending on the type of hosting account is being used. The domains are set up for a reseller to share his/her web space to others. They are actually directories under the main account uncer the HTDOCS directory.

I can get you more features and benefits for less money for what ever type of hosting you are looking for... Shared, Co-Located, Dedicated, Custom Servers for Gaming!

Please read this forum rules before you are going to discuss your own services/products here.

Regards,
Choon

Originally posted by choon
Anyone heard of BoostedBox.com before?
LOL.. could be wrong but mebbie the FBI has <g>

Shortcover

Yep, there's speculation that somehow these folks are involved with the FBI investingation currently going on over at Rackshack (see their forums for more).

Come on are you guys looking at the obvious!!!!!!! LOL If BoostedBox.com was involved in FBI investigations at RackShack lol......Do you think RackShack would continue hosting BoostedBOX.com on their servers lol.............Think about it.

yeah I was reading that thread, it was a few days ago...
rackshack would have pulled the plug on them long ago

Re: boostedbox

Some members have expressed concern over this and without going into details (as I treat emails as private), I'll only bring up a couple of points for you to consider, ones I feel would be valid no matter what.

The site uses a self-signed cert. to take orders. This might not be all that much of a concern to some degree but after a bit of digging on the domain and the server, etc. (read: whois), you'll notice a rather odd set of email addresses and domains.

If there is anything else to be said, I'll let the people who it concerns say it.

Personally, I'd never go with a host that has such a sucky webpage.

I highly disagree....who cares if they have a crappy design.........THey don't offer web design they offer HOSTING.

This is a pretty good deal (esp w/ the 3 dollars a months. :o ) From the news page:

2001-12-24: Merry Christmas! As a Christmas gift we will register any new domain names free for 2 years! Only new registrations.

...

2001-12-10: Sorry for the Spam, it was made by a sales personnel, who got fired.



Uh huh.

Owen

really odd! to say the least!!!!

boostedbox.com is in the ev1.com (rackshack) network...

it has irc (rackshack, at least in theory doesn't allow irc servers, not even clients!).

if you check port 25 and 110, it's nandi.sexcastle.jp who answers!!!!

if you check the whois for sexcastle.jp all records point to sunil@depi.net

if you check the whois for depi.net you get back to the same guy that owns boostedbox! (and, as a matter of fact, you end up in the boostedbox website if you try to go to www.depi.net)

when you check the host for www.dapi.net, you find out that napi.net is a nickname (canonical) of wf.dnsvr.com... and you get two ips: one point to dnsvr, the second one to nac.net !!!!

all services but web (port 80) seems to be disable in those ips.

but it does not stop with that ;)...

in their website (news) they say:

2001-12-14: New Server (amd.boostedbox.com) added. Specs: AMD 1000Mhz Duron, 512MB RAM, 20Gb ATA-66 HDD. Virtual Hosting control panel (Plesk) added.

but... if you check the signature from apache in amd.boostedbox.com you get....
Apache/1.3.19 Server at ensim.rackshack.net Port 80

in other words.. they say plesk.. but now that box is an ensim box!

but... hold your horses... the site also mentions titan.boostedbox.com... and that point to an ip owns by globix!

and.. to finish.. I went to irc.boostedbox.com... and... checking there the whois for nandi... he's connecting from... freeshel.hu...

if you keep looking... (and I won't say how ;)... you could even take a wild guess and say that he lives in NY...

then...

I do not think I would send this guy a single dollar ;) (well... perhaps up to ten... only to see what happens ;)))


Cheers!
Marcos

Originally posted by poeta
really odd! to say the least!!!!

boostedbox.com is in the ev1.com (rackshack) network...

it has irc (rackshack, at least in theory doesn't allow irc servers, not even clients!).

if you check port 25 and 110, it's nandi.sexcastle.jp who answers!!!!

if you check the whois for sexcastle.jp all records point to sunil@depi.net

if you check the whois for depi.net you get back to the same guy that owns boostedbox! (and, as a matter of fact, you end up in the boostedbox website if you try to go to www.depi.net)

when you check the host for www.dapi.net, you find out that napi.net is a nickname (canonical) of wf.dnsvr.com... and you get two ips: one point to dnsvr, the second one to nac.net !!!!

all services but web (port 80) seems to be disable in those ips.

but it does not stop with that ;)...

in their website (news) they say:

2001-12-14: New Server (amd.boostedbox.com) added. Specs: AMD 1000Mhz Duron, 512MB RAM, 20Gb ATA-66 HDD. Virtual Hosting control panel (Plesk) added.

but... if you check the signature from apache in amd.boostedbox.com you get....
Apache/1.3.19 Server at ensim.rackshack.net Port 80

in other words.. they say plesk.. but now that box is an ensim box!

but... hold your horses... the site also mentions titan.boostedbox.com... and that point to an ip owns by globix!

and.. to finish.. I went to irc.boostedbox.com... and... checking there the whois for nandi... he's connecting from... freeshel.hu...

if you keep looking... (and I won't say how ;)... you could even take a wild guess and say that he lives in NY...

then...

I do not think I would send this guy a single dollar ;) (well... perhaps up to ten... only to see what happens ;)))


Cheers!
Marcos

WOW! Looks like You did your homework!!;)

I'd say, go take a look at the boostedbox.com site now.. something tells me the little bubble has burst...

"bad boys-bad boys, what'cha gonna do when they come for you"

:D :D :eek: :eek:

Hummn..

Shortfuzz

:eek: I feel sorry for that little girl

Yep, the mystery on this one deepens and deepens but I'd bet $$ that this is the turd that the FBI has been going for via RS..

And the reason that they were unable to sell boxes for a few days..

Shortfizz

Wow, this is one of the wierdest and at the same time most interesting (and still confusing) things I've ever seen unfold.

Someday I'd love to know the FULL story on this.

Ya, cut the nandi out of the address that it resolves to and do a who is on that one..

This just about has to be the badboy that was hosing RS..

I sincerely hope that whomever did it gets a nice long stay in the graybar motel!

The boys down at the hotel like some new fresh meat once in a while.. :bawling:

Shortsoaponarope

This is all so weird. Whats going on?? :confused:

Originally posted by shortfork
Ya, cut the nandi out of the address that it resolves to and do a who is on that one..

This just about has to be the badboy that was hosing RS..

I sincerely hope that whomever did it gets a nice long stay in the graybar motel!

The boys down at the hotel like some new fresh meat once in a while.. :bawling:

Shortsoaponarope

But somhow I doub it!...

what is really, really strange... is that what you see (the id of the young girl... well... probably a teeneger by now, but I do not understand hungarian ;0) is hosted in the rackshack box!... mmmm....

furthermore, the two files that compose that "website" (index.html and kitty.jpg are dated december 14 @ 14:48!)

also, port 25 (sendmail) and port 110 (POP) are still up, and answering as before!

the irc daemon is still up, and the two channels are there!

topping all this... there is a strange posting in the RS forums... where one of the RS's clients complained that a "dislexic" secretary called him for his "terrorists websites"... but the RS number was rong (two numbers transposed)...

oh well.. perhaps we will find out sometime! ;)

cheers!

Marcos

Originally posted by poeta


topping all this... there is a strange posting in the RS forums... where one of the RS's clients complained that a "dislexic" secretary called him for his "terrorists websites"... but the RS number was rong (two numbers transposed)...

oh well.. perhaps we will find out sometime! ;)

cheers!

Marcos

That was me, it was a really funny call.

They were like "we can't tell you what to do but this site has to go it's a terrorist web site hosted on your server" I was like "oh crap DOMAIN PLEASE so I can delete it asap, don't want no FBI knockin on my door for being a terrorist!" they gave me the url, honestly I forget now. I was like ok LOOKING NOW... and looking... Lady I don't host this domain, so I nslookup the domain "uhm, this isn't my IP" she was like "uh" "uh" "uh, oops your RS-7603, this is RS-7063" (or something like that) I was like "hahah good lord do not scare me like that"

Originally posted by Dixiesys
Lady I don't host this domain, so I nslookup the domain "uhm, this isn't my IP" Wudden't by any chance the ip that this one resolves to was it?

What makes me think that this one is the one even more.. did anyone notice the timing between the first post in this thread and when HS made the notification at RS on no new servers and the FBI?? They were pretty close together and HS definately reads this board too..

Shortlock Holmes :confused:

Originally posted by shortfork
Wudden't by any chance the ip that this one resolves to was it?

What makes me think that this one is the one even more.. did anyone notice the timing between the first post in this thread and when HS made the notification at RS on no new servers and the FBI?? They were pretty close together and HS definately reads this board too..

Shortlock Holmes :confused:

I'm 99.99% sure the terrorist web site and this were totally unrelated.

This issue however has my curiousity on "high".

Hello
Just to clarify one of the points at the beginning of this thread:

There is no limit to the number of sites that can share one IP.
We have 1520 domains sahring the one IP with proper virtual servers for each as part of one of our projects and it works fine.

Gordon

Hello, does anyone know what ever became of this all?

well go to bostedbox.com...

as you see, it's no longer there, (It just redirects to another site)

which probably means they weren't around for too long...

Any news on what happened with the investigation? Did they catch anyone...
If any of you are interested on what HeadSurfer had to say go here: http://forum.rackshack.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2373&highlight=FBI