How are 4webspace.com fairing? I'm considering signing up but past experiences with another provider offering a similiar pricing structure (too good to be true) have so far put me off.

What is connectivity like to your servers?

How promptly do support respond to your questions/problems?

Based on your current experiences, would you recommend or stay clear of 4webspace?

Any responses much appreciated.

no problems here for me.. although my traffic is light now. i am running along nicely with the standard 32mb

i.e. http://www.fananime.com/artwork/ :)

I'd highly recommend them. Support is very fast and the prices are great.

Yeah, I would also recommend them.

Eventhough I've had 3 connectivity
problems so far:

1) Power systems failed which caused ALL
Tera-Byte's RAQs (even the ones they use
for shared hosting) to go offline for an
unknown period of time (I just noticed it
had rebooted by the uptime).

2) The second time was because Tera-Byte
was upgrading it's power systems, which
was not possible without shutting down
the RAQs. I consider this not a real "problem",
as it was down time for a good cause...

3) 2 days ago my RAQ3 crashed (?) for a completely
unknown reason. The problem was that I had
to email the Tera-Byte NOC myself to have it
rebooted (don't they test the status of hosted
servers themselves?!?). Response on my email was
relatively fast for email support - I send my email
at 19:23, and on 19:37 I got an email back my server
had been rebooted. Netwhistle recorded one hour of down
time. The actual down time was probably less - however it
was still more than 20 minutes though. To make sure this
doesn't happen again, I've installed a bunch of patches
from Cobalt - I don't know whether those patches will have
any effect though.

So far I've not had much traffic on my server yet
(400 Mb./day max.), but I'll probably move my site
to it in the next few days and then I will be able
to see how it performs under a heavy load (20,000+
pageviews a day).

I havent had any real problems. Except the ones i created myself (=.

I seem to be the only but i have not noticed any downtime.

I have migrated 7 or 8 domains to my raq3 (128mb RAM) and love it so far. This is my first attempt at dedicated hosting, but I am completely satisfied. One of the little things that I love about 4webspace is that they only charge you once for RAM upgrades... unlike a lot of host who charge you a large amount up front, plus a monthly charge.

Good luck though,
Johnathan

They have been discused quiet a few times here. How about doing a search on them?

They seem like a excellent company, but it is unrealistic to offer a 100gigs of transfer with a raq 3 at 99.00 so they rely on the fact that no one will actually use that much bandwidth, I hope they dont get a large number of customers who do start using that much bandwidth, they will be in trouble.

As far as support and all Ive never heard any complaints.

Does anyone know what kind of lines they have running into the facility???

They have there own NOC, so I dun think they are gonna run out of bandwidth anytime soon :)

I think I asked this before and the reply was:

3 ds-3's
2 oc-3's
1 oc-12
... and a partridge in a pear tree :)

Its not that im worried about them running out of bandwidth but that they have to pay bandwidth charges, if they get enough people utilizing the full 100gigs a month, their going to be paying up the a** in bandwidth charges and will be losing money.

This is true, but it's the same with virtual accounts on a shared server. If everyone used what ougave 'em, the host would go broker than my English. This is the same thing, but on a bigger scale, nothing more, nothing less.

For every one person that uses their 100 gigs, there's 20 like me. Steve probably has to tap on the meter to be sure it's still working when he views the *bytes* flowing through my machine. *wink*

actually i hit it with a hammer but i still cant see the flow from your machine:)


Steve

Steve,

Is there still a delay in processing Raq3 orders? I see that the notice has been removed from the website. How long will it now take before an order is processed?

I think this maybe host for me.

the new order came in yesterday (fed ex wouldnt deliver them though and i had to make 5 trips to the depot in my suzuki grand vitara to pick them all up)so there is no more delay at this time, however the popularity of the offer sugests this batch wont last long. the next batch is due in on the 29th. after new year's i imagine our shipments will be a bit more regular.

Steve

I used to think my website used lots of bandwidth. Due to the amount of chatters but i've been following the stats daily and i dont use as much as i thought. Id be quite suprised if i went past 5gb bandwidth now (=.

I only got one gripe - thats with arin ( think thats righ) i want my ips :P.

Originally posted by gsu90
Steve,

Is there still a delay in processing Raq3 orders? I see that the notice has been removed from the website. How long will it now take before an order is processed?

I think this maybe host for me.

Again, I'm going to have to ask you guys to please email specific questions to the hosts themselves and not post them on the board. Please help us out, thank you!

Chicken

I'm actually considering going with them. I have a few sites coming up and I think that might be a good choice for me.

What I was wondering thought is that if they 32MB of RAM is enough if I have a site that gets about 100,000 page views per day and accesses a small MySQL database? I might even install UBB or VB which will increase the use of bandwidth and MySQL..

Thanks,
Saeed

#@#@# Merry Christmas all #@#@#

Originally posted by zolbian
I'm actually considering going with them. I have a few sites coming up and I think that might be a good choice for me.

What I was wondering thought is that if they 32MB of RAM is enough if I have a site that gets about 100,000 page views per day and accesses a small MySQL database? I might even install UBB or VB which will increase the use of bandwidth and MySQL..

Thanks,
Saeed

#@#@# Merry Christmas all #@#@# 100k/day pageviews ? 32MB won't last ... you need at least 128 mb or 256MB...

That´s what I thought!
The thing is on their page it says it can handle up to 300,000 page views per month and I read in this forum that it should say per day.

Another question I have is about DNS servers. If I get the Raq3 for $99/month can I set the DNS on same server (if so how?) or does 4webspace.com provide DNS servers?

Thanks,
Saeed

You can set up your own DNS if you purchase some extra IP's for $10/month or just point for nameservers at ns1.tera-byte.com, ns2.tera-byte.com.

Originally posted by zolbian
The thing is on their page it says it can handle up to 300,000 page views per month and I read in this forum that it should say per day.

Zolbian, that's probably taken from what Cobalt says. Ideal conditions and plenty of Ram, ti could pump out the pages fairly well. That doesn't mean that you can take a RaQ3 with 32 MB ram and run a busy vBulletin site(s), or intensive cgi site(s). It's all relative my dear Watson.

OH!! It´s Mr. Chicken guy ;)
Merry Christmas ;)

You know what they say, "There´s nothing wrong with asking, blah blah blah" (cant remember the rest (6:45am here), been reading up on RaQ3 since midnight).

But seriously, I'm considering the RaQ3 with 128Mb of RAM. That should be able to handle 100,000 pages/day? There might be many cgi scripts executed, but they are pretty small.

Anyways, I really doubt I will be getting more than 30,000/day in the first couple of months anyways.

Saeed

So which one would be better? If I go with tera-byte's DNS server or if I set up my own? Or will there be no noticable difference?

Thanks

No difference. Since your not running a webhost and want to look professional with your own DNS, no real reason to spend the extra money.

Originally posted by zolbian
OH!! It´s Mr. Chicken guy ;)
Merry Christmas ;)

But seriously, I'm considering the RaQ3 with 128Mb of RAM. That should be able to handle 100,000 pages/day? There might be many cgi scripts executed, but they are pretty small.

Saeed, Merrrrry Christmas to you too! I think your best bet is to start out with 128 MB and see how it goes. Worst case, you add more ram when needed. Really, if the site isn't live yet, and won't get many visitors, 32 will do you for a *short* while. Very short, but point is that you can just upgrade as needed. (There's really no rule of 100,000 page views per xMB of ram, so you really never know).

Originally posted by Chicken
[QUOTE]

Again, I'm going to have to ask you guys to please email specific questions to the hosts themselves and not post them on the board. Please help us out, thank you!

Chicken [/B]

Sorry Chicken, I am still learning the rules.

Don't sweat it, you can still post (that's a good sign, LOL). Really, we expect newer members to make flubs. It is when the old ones ride that grey line, heh.