Well, if you take a plan B with http://www.tera-byte.com, you are charged for 2.50 by gig. I only use about 2 gigs of transfer monthly? Should I take it? The only reason why I am getting a tera-byte account is because I got my shared account suspended because my forum took too much resources. Should I take it? Or should I just go with some plan at aletia?

You will also have to pay a $100 dollar deposit. If you use 2 gigs a month then $5 dollars would be removed from it every month for twenty months. Thats very cheap at $5 bucks a month....

It sounds kind of uneconomical though and I'm not sure if i have tera-bytes colocation plan completely down.

since when 2GB/mo transfer is considered using too much resource?

cheers,
:beer:

I wouldn't call 2 gigs a month too much resource but, it really does sound uneconomical to colocate a box for only 2 gigs a month and only $5 bucks a month. Makes you wonder why 1u's were created, i thought space was important?

"Plan B: Your monthly bill is a direct reflection of the bandwidth you use. Your bill will reflect this and can grow substantially if your bandwidth increases. There is a minimum $25 monthly charge for 10 gigs of transfer"

So your minimum colocation is $25/mo which is still very cheap ...

cheers,
:beer:

Oh, that changes everything.... Ultra cheap... It's been a while since i looked at their pricing page....

I'd say go for it as I used them as a host before for virtual sites, connectivity was excellent... Server performance was another issue.

They suspended one of my shared hosting accounts because the MySQL vBulletin was taking too much server resources (CPU, RAM), not the site itself. So I should take it?

Originally posted by TGL4387DD
They suspended one of my shared hosting accounts because the MySQL vBulletin was taking too much server resources (CPU, RAM), not the site itself. So I should take it?

wait, are you taking a colocation plan for your site? DO you have a server to be sent there?

cheers,
:beer:

If you don't have your own server and just want to host one site, then go with the shared hosting.

Liquidweb.com is one that i had a decent experience with. Good connectivity and good server performance. I ran a mysql/php ad script there for all 15,000 daily hits i got. No problems....

Originally posted by web_res
Oh, that changes everything.... Ultra cheap... It's been a while since i looked at their pricing page...

It's been a while since I visit their pages too (looks new everytime I visit them). This means they are now providing the cheapest colocation deal I have ever seen! As low as $25/mo and this includes 10GB of bandwith! :eek:

cheers,
:beer:

Definately, the best part is i've never had a complaint with their network. I have had issues with their machine performances as previously mentioned but thats irrelevant. :)

Very exciting but unfortunately I have no applications for this... I am thinking of possibly hosting a high resource (cpu+ memory) low bandwidth server over there in the future.

Originally posted by dektong
There is a minimum $25 monthly charge for 10 gigs of transfer...
I was just wondering, is this part new? i don't seem to recall this, or maybe I just missed it (not that it's a biggie, just wondering).

Um..I don't want to colocate. I want a dedicated server with them.

I have a good feeling that you'll have to pay much more then $25 dollars for dedicated. Infact I'm fairly sure, it's hard to swallow that TB will be charging $25 bucks a month and include a machine. There might be another $100-$200 fee per month in addition to the bandwidth fee.

Even when you get colo plan B they charge $25 bucks but you must send in your machine or have them build one for $900 something.

So if your willing to pay over $100 per month for what could be done on a shared hosting account then go ahead.

You could check the page again or talk to a tb sales rep to confirm.

Why don't you just get a shared hosting plan somewhere and use different forum software. Something like PHPBB that uses a MySQL backend so that resources aren't as much of an issue. I don't see how it makes any sense to host a site that small on a dedicated server... would be a waste of money.

Hi TGL, I guess you meanwhile asked TB what this Plan B is all about? What did they say? Can you get a dedicated server for 25 bucks?

If you have your own server, you can co-locate it for $25/month. If you don't have your own server, Tera-Byte can build you one for around $1000 or you can lease one for $100/month.