hi, what's the cheapest (but good) dedicated server deal u've seen?

im on a tight budget,

RACKSHACK.NET

High set-up fees for some of us, but their monthly fee is unbeatable (108$/mth).

Tip: If you can't/won't pay the set-up fees, go with Saburovo.com ! They are RS resellers, and waive the setup fee (but ask a bit higher monthly price, which is still very cheap: 150$/mth).

We currently have a server through Saburovo.com, so if you'd be interested in them, do not hesitate to contact me for more information... we have a very good experience with them.
They're very helpful to newbies :)

I have seen rackshak.net and there is not uptime gunrantee. Could I trust them to keep my server up?

Yes, you can.
As far as my experience goes, RS is no better or worse than any other ISP. And believe me; NOBODY can give 100% uptime. That simply doesn't exist.
A couple of weeks ago RS souffered some downtime, because of DoS attacks. That's simply inevitable. You can't blame them: it happens to all ISP's at least once.

My opininion about them is that for that price, what you get is DAMN GOOD !! :) :) :agree:

I'm not talking about %100 uptime. what am I talking about is do they keep a good uptime comparable to companies that charge 200-$400.

To be more specific, if I want to use them as a shraed hosting server, could I trust them?

They are as good as other companies indeed (if not better!).
You can take my word on that one. ;)

Thank you very much

BTw I can't find any contact infomration or E_mail of Saburovo.com do you have it by any chance?

Originally posted by sharkman
Thank you very much

BTw I can't find any contact infomration or E_mail of Saburovo.com do you have it by any chance?
well, open your eyes buddy :D
it's a bit hidden ... but it's not impossible to find.
bystruev@yahoo.com should be the right email adress.

Greets

Thank :-)

Funny that with all those servers he uses a disposable email address :confused:

I'd give a thumbs up to saburovo, too. Seems like a very smart guy, and he can usually deal better with Rackshack when there's problems than you can, since he has so many of them. He also supports issues they don't . If you go through him, make sure you get the ext3 journaling filesystem installed on the server, or you'll cry if the thing ever goes down.

If I got a server with RackShack, I'd go with saburovo myself.

If you want a good guarantee of reliability, go with dv2 / tranxactglobal. They now offer 100% uptime guarantee SLA. That doesn't mean they won't ever go down, but rather that you don't pay for any time they're down -- which is as fair as someone can give you, without them being being god. :)

Check out this thread
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36852

And their signup link is, mmm... let's see...
www.tranxactglobal.com/servers.html

A big plus to them, aside from their SLA, is the one time upgrade for the machine. You can get as powerful a machine as you want, with one or two processor, one or two harddrives, and as much memory as you want, and still be paying their $99 or $139 monthly fee. With RS, the bigger machine you get, the more you can a month. Add 512 of ram, pay $79 install, then $29 extra a month. Whereas it's something like $75-$100 one time with tranxact.

Anyway, RS and DV2 are both decent companies. They both have good networks, give you 300gb of transfer, and are very professional about their operations. As far as the low cost options go, they're the only two I'd considered. Most other cheap offers I've seen floating around have too many flaws right now... like having your server hosted on the carpet... to one provider... with no power backup... no real uptime guarantees... and all kinds of other negatives. .Just not worth it when much better companies are charging you about the same price, penny for penny.

Originally posted by panopticon
Funny that with all those servers he uses a disposable email address :confused:

It makes perfect sense. It's an out of network email address. If his servers go down, he can still get your email, and can still send email to his customers. He probably has his whole customer list in his yahoo address book, ready to send alerts.

Several of the better providers do this. Sure, they worry about what people will think seeing a yahoo or hotmail address, for the very same reason you're confused... but there's actually very legit reasons for them to maintain an address like this.

For instance... in the Ventures Online forum, I recently saw people begging THEM to get a yahoo address for emergencies. How about that? ha!

He should probably provide another one, too, though... and perhaps make the yahoo reasons clear.

Yep, thumbs up for saburovo! :agree:

To jmars: What do you mean by the ext3 journaling system?
I have a server with them and I don't want to cry when it goes down... So I want to get that thing installed if you say it's something important. :)

Originally posted by .::DefCon::.
To jmars: What do you mean by the ext3 journaling system?


If I'm not mistaken, ext3 is the new filesystem available in Redhat Linux 7.2 - it's much better than ext2. So I think if you decide to go with Saburove, ask him kindly to install Redhat 7.2 instead.

Rackshack has an uptime gaurantee of 99.7%

Originally posted by AcuNett
Rackshack has an uptime gaurantee of 99.7%

You mean network uptime? Never heard of that one before...
Where do they mention that? Could you gimme the url to that page? 'cause I never seen anything like that! :confused:

so at the end who would you say is better www.tranxactglobal.com/ or saburovo!

I prefer tranxactglobal over saburovo cause they seem to offer better value for the money.

$39.90 per month is the cheapest I have seen.

If you want cheap and good service,
Maybe you have to try Dialtone Internet www.dialtone.com

Kuntari

Originally posted by RackMy.com
$39.90 per month is the cheapest I have seen.

39.90 US $ for a DED??? :eek:

Do you have the url for that company?
I am vééry interested. :D


ps: please don't tell me it's UK2.NET ... :rolleyes: They suck I've heard. :bawling:

Originally posted by .::DefCon::.
Yep, thumbs up for saburovo! :agree:

To jmars: What do you mean by the ext3 journaling system?
I have a server with them and I don't want to cry when it goes down... So I want to get that thing installed if you say it's something important. :)

As twrs touched upon, it's much better than ext2.

ext2 is the default of RedHat 7.1, ext3 is the default of 7.2. However, you can have 7.1 upgraded to use ext3.

Basically, ext3 writes a little journal (diary :))of all of it's file writes... and self-maintains itself this way. It never has to do the linux equivolent of a 'scandisk', and doesn't ever tend to lose or scramble files, unless there's something physically wrong with the disk. Getting ext3 installed on your server should help to greatly ameleriote the 'do a system restore upon crash or power failure' syndrome that Rackshack servers have at the moment. Right now, they'll wipe out a lot of your hard work just due to a crash, or their own power failure. It pisses lots of people off, or at least saddens them greatly. With ext3, everything should be hunky dory unless your box's hardware is going bad.

Okidoki, I'll ask Denis (from Saburovo.com) about this then.
Thanks for the reply :).

does any of this companies have CPanel or do yoou now any companies with the same value that have CPanel.