I had a virtual account with them years ago and the support was excellent. Ever since I recommended them to everybody.

Now I'll see first hand if the service is still the same.

Pre-sales has satisfied all my expectations so far. Chris just never sleeps, or there are 10 people signing with "Chris" over there.


Regarding CentOS, I haven't read a bad thing about it, was that a good choice? It had to have the Tux server included so FreeBSD was out of question.

CentOS is just Redhat Enterprise Linux compiled from source. In my experience its a nice OS. ;)

Glad that you chose to stay with cyberwurx, I must say they are indeeeeed superb provider :D

ordered and payment made: Mon, 6. Sep. 2004 20:21:52 PDT

welcome email with login info: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:38:52 -0400 (EDT)

I get 352 kybte/sec on a 10 Mbyte file, from my 3 mbps DSL in germany. That is the most I can theoretically get (384 kybte minus overhead), I get the same speed from my bluegravity server, but all other hosts I tried were slower, somewhere around 190-300 kbyte/s, including theplanet, servermatrix (I always get different speeds for these two, with servermatrix always being faster), managed. From NAC throughput tester I get around 200-250 kybte/s.


I hoped that the cyberwurx speed would be good and it is as fast as it can get.

I've used CentOs before. It did the trick just fine. Thinking about OS X servers next. Just to see how they do.

It is my first CentOs server and looking good so far. I am used to Redhat and I could find my way through CentOs so far. There was no mysql-server installed but I could easily install it with "yum install mysql-server"