My friend had a Plesk server at RackShack but it had many problems (because of plesk).

Unfortunately RackShack don't have any plans with CPanel/WHM.
I'm not in to this buisness... so could you tell me please if there any company similar to RackShack that offers BW for cheap price but with CPanel?

Thanks :)

Hmm, sorry to see you have not had any response. Maybe you could post in the relevent forum asking for a quote (sorry I don't know which one that is - is it the webhosting offers forum ???)

Otherwise, I can suggest you give pwebtech.com a tinkle (either ed or jason) and ask them for a quote. I suggest this because they are a cpanel reseller and therefor have reasonable pricing when bundled with their own services, and they also have the DCJN which I am on which is a cheep but cheerful bandwidth option. As to overall pricing and offers, I am not up on what they are currently offering, but they are best approached directly in terms of getting a competitive quote. :)

Originally posted by Or Ozery
any company similar to RackShack that offers BW for cheap price but with CPanel?We tried to uninstall Plesk on one of our RackShack servers and installed CPanel. Works fine so far. You can buy external CPanel license from one of the distributors (it should be around $100 a month) and perform the same task.

Originally posted by dabystru
We tried to uninstall Plesk on one of our RackShack servers and installed CPanel. Works fine so far. You can buy external CPanel license from one of the distributors (it should be around $100 a month) and perform the same task. The simple is obvious. From what I hear RackShack MAY just *MAY* offer CPanel/WHMl really soon. But it's just what I got from a post.

I dont get it, how does being a distributor make your support any faster? :D

<<MOD NOTE: Board spam that this post referred to has been removed>>

Because we direct access to the creators of the software. Only a distributor gets that. Plus, we are very fluent with the software.

Heh, ok you missed what i was saying, you have "better trained" or "more competent" support for CPanel, unless they keep their distributors on speed, theres nothing to make you go any faster then anyone else, just be more fluent/do a better job. Being a distributor wont make you pick up the phone any faster :D.

Originally posted by totalufo
Because we direct access to the creators of the software. Only a distributor gets that. Plus, we are very fluent with the software.

Maybe you should read the forum rules - you'd become more fluent in your WHT activities :D

Originally posted by Fiber
The simple is obvious. From what I hear RackShack MAY just *MAY* offer CPanel/WHMl really soon. But it's just what I got from a post.

eww, I hope not... They should really look into hostgui once it is released, which is really soon. :)

Originally posted by totalufo
Because we direct access to the creators of the software. Only a distributor gets that. Plus, we are very fluent with the software.

you forget that allot of people here know how much bs that is.

I have read the rules. I just made a simple mistake. What's the big deal? You are right, I should have used better wording. No reason to issue a press release though. You're right, does not make us pick up the phone any faster but we are very well trained. Sorry for not wording it correctly. I'm having a very busy day. :)

I was the one who made the phone comment, and i was simply helping you out, not taking a shot at you. (because you know some customers will ask you "why is your service faster" and if you answered them with that, they'd probably wonder "how does that make it faster"). These other people are commenting because you blatently advertised in a non advertising forum. You gotta do that stuff through email/messages very subtely, or people get brushed the wrong way (as they're not allowed to advertise in here).

BS? I don't think so. We do have direct access to the creators of the software because we are a licensed distributor. That's part of the deal. We have a lot of licenses issued.

Why are there so many confrontational people here? I'm just trying to do some business and I'm getting nothing but rude comments.

<<MOD NOTE: Do business in the ad forums, not the main forums. Final warning.>>

Originally posted by porcupine
I was the one who made the phone comment, and i was simply helping you out, not taking a shot at you. (because you know some customers will ask you "why is your service faster" and if you answered them with that, they'd probably wonder "how does that make it faster"). These other people are commenting because you blatently advertised in a non advertising forum. You gotta do that stuff through email/messages very subtely, or people get brushed the wrong way (as they're not allowed to advertise in here).

I see, did not mean anything by it. I was just answering someone elses post. I'll be more subtle. I apologize if I offended anybody.

totalufo: no, responses can virtually never get you in troble, you can't shoot people for answering questions (unless the people are realllly stupid). They're referring to your first host the "come see our webpage at" one.

Yes, that was a mistake. I made the mistake of assuming that I was in the advertising forums. I had multiple windows open and because of the first post, I thought he was asking where can he get the cheapest cpanel/server combo. My fault. Do me a favor and delete all the posts from me in this thread.

Do me a favor and delete all the posts from me in this thread.

Click edit/delete :), i think you can now.

Hmm, I am just looking at rackshacks new servers and plans and it appears that the AMD XP 1700 plan comes with a bare install of RH7.1 which should make it easy to get a CPanel onto it.

I really do not understand why they don't just offer a bare OS install with all their servers.

Oh, and I just noticed that the RH7.1 build is with EXT3 filesystem too.

Originally posted by freakysid
Hmm, I am just looking at rackshacks new servers and plans and it appears that the AMD XP 1700 plan comes with a bare install of RH7.1 which should make it easy to get a CPanel onto it.

I really do not understand why they don't just offer a bare OS install with all their servers.

Oh, and I just noticed that the RH7.1 build is with EXT3 filesystem too.

Tranxactglobal / dv2 also offers cheap XP machines. Cheaper monthly, actually -- as low as $99 if you pay a bigger install, or $139 if you want to pay a smaller (or no on some machines) install. And they carry Cpanel/WHM for $90 a month. Think they install it for you for free -- so you can have Cpanel on your machine from day 1.

The new rackshack XPs are kinda scary right now. I recently found out they have 7.1, because 7.2 is incompatible with their system. Well, what about when Redhat 8 comes along, or other newer version? What then? Frankly, I don't know what that's all about. It's like they're using antique motherboards or something -- but of course, they can't be, since they take XP1700s! It's just freaky.

Also, they apparently put 5400 rpm drives in these fast machines. A fast machine with a slow hard drive, isn't all too fast. I'm not sure I'd want lots of clients, potentially people who are doing their own reselling through WHM, to be clogging up a slow hard drive. The hard drive is THE slowest part of a server, period. It shouldn't be any slower than it has to be. RS not spending the $3-$10 more for a good hard drive for those machines is just plain old stupid. Something they should change right now, before it bites them in the ass anymore than it already has.

Their XP machine just doesn't make sense. I'd stay away from it, and go with tranxact. Seems like a lot of people go with Rackshack because you can usually get your server up INSTANTLY, but you pay for that long term by being unhappy with the machine and support. With tranxact and a couple of the other vendors here, it might take a couple days (or even a week if they're backed up) to get your machine, but then you have a smile glued on your face.

Actually, you brought up something important in the other thread I just saw you post on... Rackshack now DOES have Compaq servers. You'll pay a little more for those, yes, and no, it won't be as fast as an XP machine... but if you have your heart set on Rackshack, you might want to go with one of those. Looks like there's less problems with them at the moment, and probably less headaches in the future. And, yes, they DO have 7200 rpm drives. Compaq apparently didn't cut corners.

For better Rackshack oriented support, I'd probably see if saburovo is reselling any. He seems to cut through Rackshack support problems better than most end customers can.

All that said... means my vote for a nice Cpanel/WHM machine goes to...

Rackshack... ONLY with a Compaq server. Preferably through Saburovo. XP and Duron machines are "scary" right now

Tranxactglobal / dv2 ... Any of their current offerings - single P3, dual, XP, dual XPs, whatever. Load up on the memory if you're reselling, though

There may be other good offers I've missed, too. Check the offers forum regularly.

Check out this Thread (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=40002)

$125 includes CPanel and AMD 1.4 Ghz Athalon XP
256 MB Ram
40 Gig HD
400 GB Bandwidth

Originally posted by big_smooth
Check out this Thread (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=40002)

$125 includes CPanel and AMD 1.4 Ghz Athalon XP
256 MB Ram
40 Gig HD
400 GB Bandwidth

Good lord. I saw that offer, but didn't before see than it INCLUDED Cpanel. wOw

If that's for real, is a stable venture, and they add a fallback bandwidth provider, those will be awfully popular boxes.