HI

I run a free web hosting company and am looking for cheap raq4s
need 512mb of ram
20gb hard disk
lots of bandwidth.

Anyone no anywhere good that they have used. Need good support and fast action taken if there is any down time.

I would check out rackspace and CT.

a _cheap_ RAQ is quite a rare specie :) these servers are not that cheap, so it is hard to find them for cheap.

but again, any company offering it might be as good as another.

hi ya mike welcome :)

remember me and my site by any chance :D - funny that you just signed up here when i have a project that is aimed right in your direction - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=3438

any way check out

http://www.rackspace.com - i am currently with them but am looking for a cheaper host but their support and service is top notch

http://www.dedicatedservers.com/verio.com

http://www.hostpro.com

http://www.catalog.com

and there's others

Mike? im not mike, mike is my partner.

What about http://www.cobaltrack.com/ do they look ok or too dodgy?

Their site is horribly dodgy looking, their support team is non existant for large portions of the day (no 24/7 monitoring as far as I can tell) and servers continue to loose connectivity upto ten times a day. Yes I am not happy with my cobaltracks server.

On the official cobalt list today, it has been alledged cobaltracks assigned an existing customers IP addresses to another customer and they had failed to call him back to resolve this within the hour they promised. Dont know how this has turned out but that customer in question is already looking for another dedicated hosting company - surprise surprise!

You gets what you pay for in this world. Just my two pennys worth, I'm unhappy with the service I get at present... if things change then I will happily let you guys know. Atm, I couldnt recommend CR to anyone.

Thanks for letting me know

I forgot to mention that i already have 2 servers from hispeed.com they are good and theyre service is quite quick, except there administrator staff dont work sundays so if you have a problem you need to wait until monday. A raq4 from would cost about $700, cheapservers.net offerrs about the same for $500, sounds good to me but is that all they offer better than hispeed. Madhosts.com is really taking off so would i get a discoount if by more in the future?

Hey Madhosts (and welcome)! If you are interested in a host, you can search the forum for comments (top right corner) or http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php

There are some comments good/bad about cobaltrack

What servers you guys currently running (OS/how much RAM) etc.??? Cobaltracks only offer RAQ4s with 256MB RAM but they're pretty good value especially since you get 66GB of bandwidth thrown in. And the $27.50 you pay for additional blocks of 10GB bandwidth isnt sooo bad either.

I'm interested as to why you want to go with a RAQ based server. From your post I presume you probably arent using RAQs at present.

The value of cobaltracks has never been questioned. They do offer competitive pricing. The only things I've seen people complain about is the speed/overall network and the support.

Also, in my opinion, a RaQ is very well suited for:
A webdesigner who needs to host his clients.
A small hosting company (or start of a larger one).
A larger company willing to put fewer sites per server.
A dedicated server for one big site (or a few large ones).
Someone who is just getting into dedicated servers.
Other (I'm sure I'm forgetting something)

-but not for a FWP. Steve at tera-byte has commented that they tried a RaQ with I believe over 1,000 sites on it for their Spaceports project, and it didn't work out all that well.

The reason we use raqs just now is because i have little linux knoweldge so i am a but warry of getting a linux box without the control panel. Although we offer free web hosting we accept only large high quality sites which means were not puttingg 1,000s of sites on one server but between 150-200.
If i bought a linux server can you set up web-sites as quick as you can with the raqs control panel?

Originally posted by Not Happy
Their site is horribly dodgy looking, their support team is non existant for large portions of the day (no 24/7 monitoring as far as I can tell) and servers continue to loose connectivity upto ten times a day. Yes I am not happy with my cobaltracks server.

I have a server with cobaltracks and I can say that their support is pretty much nonexistant, unless you cc to your sales rep, then it seems that you get an answer, also while my server is not losing connectivity ten times per day, it does lose it at least once per day, we use netwhistle to monitor the server via http once per hour, and it has proven over the last week that the server does lose connectivity once per day. Unfortunately it's not just a 1 minute deal, the most recent this mornign it was out for over 20 minutes and maybe more.

I am seriously thinking about moving to someone like catalog and paying a bit more, if they can't get their act together.

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ok well im deafanatly not going with cobalt racks

Due to Cobaltracks non existant tech support, we have stopped reselling their servers and services as of today! We were going quite well, signing up about 3-4 servers every few days!!

Our server has dropped two more times in the last three hours. Just came back after another 20 minute absence no word from support (surprise!) and I'm getting more annoyed by the day. We still have four months to run on our contract with them thats if they stay in business that long..

You know this really does concern me. I will strive to give the best possible support as any human bean can give, but when my server goes down for 20 minutes or 30 minutes every day, or as some have reported more than once per day, this really concerns me. How in the world can I give first class support and charge the going rates of hosting if the servers go down so frequently and nobody from support at cobaltracks bothers to respond.

Im really feeling that they must be a two person operation, one for sales and one for support, or perhaps they are a one person operation, one person for both sales and support.

There total lack of support is insane. Im serioully contemplating removing my account from them and asking for a full refund of any unused monies, i.e. 2 and a half months worth of fees. I feel that I can more than adequately support any people that host on our servers, but Im feeling that if they dont straighten out the downtime that then is beyond any support that I can give.

Im also wondering what other measures a person can take beyond just quitting their service and going with someone else? I dont feel like I need to get even with anyone over there, but I feel that something must be done to alleviate any stress that others may feel by signing up with them.

I guess the worst I can do is to remove my account from them and say goodbye, and just *choke choke* pay out more money for a service where the servers are up 99% of the time.

Occasional outages are to be expected, but not an everyday occurence.

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Originally posted by Madhosts.com
The reason we use raqs just now is because i have little linux knoweldge so i am a but warry of getting a linux box without the control panel. Although we offer free web hosting we accept only large high quality sites which means were not puttingg 1,000s of sites on one server but between 150-200.
If i bought a linux server can you set up web-sites as quick as you can with the raqs control panel?


Yes, you can get linux boxes with similar CP's. Catalog.com, and (not sure) Cheapservers.net offers Plesk (which is fairly similar to a RaQ's functions and abilities, if not more). Also, VDI based hosts such as Ultraspeedusa.com and Site5.com offer a CP for their linux servers which pretty much blows the RaQ CP out of the water.

Also note that there are probably other hosts offering Plesk that I can't remember off hand. There are also more VDI hosts that offer dedicated servers that I can't remember off hand. Do a search for VDI or Plesk and you should see some of them.

Brainbox, I just wanted to add that I haven't had any problems at tera-byte.com (RaQ3 colo'd there). I wouldn't put up with that.

I have had a RaQ4 at Cobalt Rack (visual Link) for about 2 weeks and I have yet to get the DNS working for me. No one there told me the correct info on how to set up. In the beginning they only refered me to the Cobalt Manual, I have yet to get the DNS to correctly work and have about had my fill. But the DNS is the least of my worries about them, I did server server checks and they ranged from fair to poor on the IP numbers they assigned to me. But I tested the IP for Colbalt Rack before I located there and it tested out Very Good, looks like a bait and switch. The Servers are VERY SLOW. I have asked them to correct my problems, but nothing so far. Luckily I have not moved my sites over there yet and now I am shopping for a new Linux server. Any suggestions! I hope the guys from Visual Link(Cobalt Rack) read this and get there act together!

An Unhappy Webmaster!

J730,
Do me a favor, login through telnet to your server as the admin, then issue the command: cat /proc/cpuinfo


This will dump to your screen the info about your cobalt raq4, it should say something like the following:


processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 448.210
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 894.57
temperature : 33.5


Mine unfortunatley says that I have a 300mhz cpu so Im going to ge making some heads roll at Cobaltracks.com on Monday!

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[Edited by brainbox on 12-02-2000 at 07:25 PM]

I am not using telnet, they told me if I use telnet that I on my own and can not use support. Like there would have been a difference! I accused them of putting me on a 386 machine, thats how slow mine is. Free web servers test faster. I should have known with the price, but I had read a few good post that said they had straighten things out. They did tell me they had been under DOS attack last week. I do know on testing the speed that DNS was the slowest part, but funny it was fine on the Colbalt Rack IP address.

Still Very unhappy

It's fine on their cobaltracks.com site because they are located in a different data center, at least thats what I remember of the email that they sent me which I cant find at the moment, so basically they said that they and a handfull of others are still on the old data center while people like you and I are in their new "data center" and having all these problems with connections.

Has anyone actually been to their data center? Do they really own the center or are they leasing an old underground bunker from WWII?

Im really displeased at this point and recommend all stay far away from cobaltracks.com as is possible. If I dont get immediate satisfaction from them, they will not only hear from my cc people, but my attorney as well as see a huge Anti-CobaltRack.com internet campaign.

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