Hi,

1) those who already got their servers at 4 webspace, could you share your experience for the first days/weeks? I mean performance and uptime. Probably post a URL, preferably with a heavy site with a lot of elements on it so that I can see the speed. I´m monitoring 4webspace.com but I´d prefer a page with more stuff on it so that I can see if it "hangs" sometimes.

I´m ready to order a RAQ3 and you might say what are you waiting for, but actually a decent speed is important for me, even at this sensational price.

And I´m still curious if they could stand that offer for a while. I´ll not use the 100 GB like most people, but then again, I could, I just need to post a gallery to the Hun and that´ll be 30 GB alone. Then again, the $ 3 over Gig is fair. But if I use 80 GB per month for 6 months in a row, will that get me into trouble, I mean I just pay $ 99 for it right?

2) A last question: I have 750 domains, can I host them all on a RAQ3, e.g. when I do most of them virtual? Or will I have to go for a RAQ4. That one hasn´t that 200 accounts limitation right? And the 200 acounts limit for the RAQ3 is that just a recommendation from cobalt or is that a hard limit that I can´t overcome even when I can work with apache and linux? And if it´s possible to host more domains, is it damn hard to realize? I don´t need ftp and email for all. Folder redirection would be o.k. too. The IP limit (is there any - 200 ?) is o.k. too. I just would like to setup more domains, each one with it´s own content.

Your experience is very appreciated :)

The price is superb of course, I´m just picky because I´m moving hosts all the time (because there come problems with speed and reliability afterwards) and that´ll kill me some day. I was reading only good stuff about tera-byte for almost a year now, otherwise I wouldn´t even suggest to host at 4 webspace, no matter if it´s 99 or $ 49.

I just hope that the mixed calculation with the bandwidth price works for 4webspace (at least for 1 year or more) so that I don´t need to aaaarrrrgghhhh change host again.

I first had my site hosted on their free server (Spaceports) after a few months, I signed up for a shared server, a few months later I signed up for the 4webspace RaQ, here's my experience with the RaQ:

I signed up at night and got my server ready to go the next morning. I then fooled around with it a bit, and asked for a RAM upgrade (at night, and it was done the next morning again). I had trouble receiving my emails, got it solved after talking with the staff on IRC.

So far my site is running smoothly on the server. If you want to monitor my site, go ahead. It's at http://www.noated.com. This site uses MySQL/PHP heavily.

They say that the limit is 100GB/month so as long as if you don't go over that, you should be fine.

The RaQ3 has a limit of 250 domains, I'm not really sure what will happen if you go over that, since I only have 4 domains.

Guess that's all that I can tell you. BTW: no down time on the RaQ for me, yet.

Thanks for the info, Typus. I like the speed of your site. Actually I signed up a few minutes ago. Someone know something about the 250 domain limit whether it is some sort of hard coded limit of cobalt or just a recommendation? I want to park a lot more domains, redirect to folders would be o.k., don´t need ftp or email for most of them.

I believe it is a limit on the machine. If your just pointing domains it should be fine to park up to 250. However, a RaQ will start to choke up between 110-130 moderately used sites so don't count on developing anymore than that.

Originally posted by typus
I first had my site hosted on their free server (Spaceports) after a few months, I signed up for a shared server, a few months later I signed up for the 4webspace RaQ, here's my experience with the RaQ:

So far my site is running smoothly on the server. If you want to monitor my site, go ahead. It's at http://www.noated.com. This site uses MySQL/PHP heavily.

hey typus.. so you're the fellow Anime Luna partner site sharing the spotlight with my site on About.com :)

out of curiousity typus, how much ram did you upgrade to ?

Hey partner :)

I upgraded to 128mb. And that's barely enough to run noated.com (RAM usage is around 110-112 meg right now).

Originally posted by typus
Hey partner :)

I upgraded to 128mb. And that's barely enough to run noated.com (RAM usage is around 110-112 meg right now). well noated.com is running pretty fast to me :) i am still using 32mb on my raq3 but it housing all my low traffic sites...

on a linux server, your ram will almost always be used up. linux always uses it all up and then sets it as reserve, sort of. when your system needs the ram, it takes it from the reserve and uses it. so you will never see less than 80-90% usage of ram.

So, how do you know if it is out of RAM then ?

Originally posted by Donovan
So, how do you know if it is out of RAM then ?

Run 'top' and see how much swap is in use. If your system is using a lot of swap, you need more RAM.

A question

Can i host more than 1 domain on the same IP adress on here servers?


Thanks

Yes, you can host more than one domain.

Hi Typus,

250 IS the limit of the RAQ. You will not be able to put more accounts than that. That's the reason I decided against it, since the majority of my sites are extremely low traffic and use very little resources. I could easily put 500 accounts on one server (using P3 650, 512 megs of ram).

Aha good that i read this i was about to signup but i had some more questions.
I run a nonnude kinda adult site.
I get 2k traffic a day and growing.
I get new members everyday that download vids and pictures.
I want the RAQ3 server it comes with 32MB.
How much RAM do i need, will 128MB enough.
What happens if its not enough, will the site go down.
How do i know how much i use?
I never had any experience with ded. hosting.
I have a normal HTML site without PHP and stuff. Is it easy to setup.
Thanks

Battuss

128mb should be enough ..... It will make ur website go at a crawl during busy periods not having enough ram. If your unsure just go straight for the 256mb ram.

Thanks,
Im now at a virtual host.
Is a ded. host always faster?
Even with "only" 128 MB
The thing is my server is down pretty often but on the other site i only pay 20 bucks a month and they dont bitch about the bandwidth.
Will it be a good step forward getting a ded. hotst ?

Originally posted by CJB
[QUOTE]Run 'top' and see how much swap is in use. If your system is using a lot of swap, you need more RAM.

How 'top' run?

Telnet in (log in of course), and type:

top

11:06am up 20 days, 23:45, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.11
67 processes: 64 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 6.6% user, 8.8% system, 0.0% nice, 84.4% idle
Mem: 128040K av, 104648K used, 23392K free, 245620K shrd, 12448K buff
Swap: 131536K av, 6440K used, 125096K free 36248K cache

Whats zombie?.

Originally posted by Technics
Whats zombie?.

In the West Indies, a zombie is a will-less, automaton-like person who is said to have been revived from the dead and must now do the will of the living

LMAO. Nope i didnt mean them.

Got mine up a hour ago (ordered yesterday) :)

Well looks like I can´t switch everything over because of the 250 site limit. SO I´ll use it additionally and order less bandwidth at the other server.

It pushes pics with 6-9 KByte/sec. (I have DSL and COULD take more) to me over here in europe. If it stays like that it would work quite good for hosting galleries.

Now I got my additional 64 IP´s too. They´re pretty responsive. Wake up and got 3 new mails from them. Next we´ll try to setup a DNS control panel for me where I can setup domains at will. Speed is very satisfying so far. It´s below Alabanza and Exodus I´d say but still pretty good. And very stable, not fast one second and slow the next.

I don't know about the RaQ3 but the RaQ4 has no limits on the number of name based web sites, only a limit of 250 IP based web sites.

Yeah someone else was saying that too. That is good news. It was the only drawback I saw so far but 250 IP´s is just fine as long as I can park more domains than 250. Haven´t been able to install such a lot yet, but looks like it would be possible.

You seem to be in pretty good shape there, you've only got 6 megs of swap in use there.

On a related note, if you can host several domains on one IP address, than what are the advantages to paying for those extra IPs? We'll need to host about 5 of them on the RAQ so I want to make sure they are all ok.

Thanks.

Matt

You can only set one badwidth limit per IP, only one anonamoyus FTP per IP. Things like that is why you'd want extra. Also if you plan on running your own nameservers you need at least 2 IPs.

And the wildcard for subdomains is per IP (at least at tera-byte´s DNS)

And for search engines it might be better when you link your sites alltogether (to increase your own "link popularity") they won´t see that easy that the sites are all from the same person. And sometimes search engines ban whole IP´s. In this case all domains on a single would be affected although most of them "didn´t do anything".