I am interested in knowing who here has experience as a customer with Focal Hosting, as a dedicated server or colocation customer. Thanks to those in advance.

Hi Fiber,

I have ordered a server with focal and I am waiting for it to be out of the test burning and installation and online in a week [the delay is from me -I am yet to fax a contract to them! :)]

I would recommend them for 3 reasons

1] they have few servers , so you are certain to get get personal attn

2] Alex Llera [allera here] is a very competent person and has given me a lot of free lessons on Unix, Apache security and djbdns and stuff like that [even before I ordered the server] - service is top notch to say the least

3] they will customize everything for you

I am paying 60$ set up and 130$/mo and a 12 month contract for a PIII 800, 256 MB RAM, 40GB IDE with 35GB of actual traffic. The way I see it, I pay 40$ for the box, 30$ for the bandwidth and 60$ for the support - it's important to me because although I am quite knowledgible this is my first server

Hope it helps

Cheers
Balaji

Originally posted by MotleyFool
I am paying 60$ set up and 130$/mo and a 12 month contract for a PIII 800, 256 MB RAM, 40GB IDE with 35GB of actual traffic. The way I see it, I pay 40$ for the box, 30$ for the bandwidth and 60$ for the support - it's important to me because although I am quite knowledgible this is my first server

Just a note to potentially interested parties, we had three servers at this (or similar) introductory rate and all three have been taken. Current prices are not introductory and are higher.

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Balaji;

Thank you for those comments. I too have heard good experiences with Focal Hosting and wished to verify and get more about them. The deal you seem to have gotten seems to be very good, and I kick myself all the more - but I am quite positive that it is Focal Hosting I will be going with; on atleast a 12-month contract. From my perspective they are a great company, with excellent service and great pricing. Not to expensive, but not too cheap.

Thank you.