I have currently got a shared hosting account with Interland (btw horrible) and was looking to move to a dedicated Cobalt server. Theirs are too expensive for what you get.

I've been searching all over these boards, and found a couple of things, but still not sure.

For instance, catalog.com has a raq3 for $199. Then I've 4webspace.com which has what appears to be a good deal for $99 for a Raq3 with 32 MB of RAM.

This is basically for some personal sites, and e-mail. Can someone recommend either of these two services, or a better service. These prices seem really good. (Of course that also frightens me).

Also... can you tell me... I've looked all over, will these hosts set my inital domain up? And can I use the RaQ server for DNS services or do I need a seperate server?

Thanks. :-)

I would also check out datapipe.com--low prices and lots of bandwidth and IPs. They'll also install PHP and MySQL for you for nothing (important on a RaQ3).

You can definitely use the RaQ3 for DNS.

As for setting up your inital domain, the RaQ has one domain that's the "home" site for the server. I think a lot of people (myself included on my primary server) use this home site as the primary address for their DNS server (i.e., ns1.yourdomainname.com).

I recommend Catalog.com because I'm a customer and also 4webspace.com because I have a gut feeling after over 20 years in business that they are good operators.

Nothing guaranteed but if you want more info, email me.

Originally posted by felix220
I recommend Catalog.com because I'm a customer and also 4webspace.com because I have a gut feeling after over 20 years in business that they are good operators.

Nothing guaranteed but if you want more info, email me.
20 years in internet business?

You are kidding right :) The web didn't even exist 15 years ago.

I beleive there are many companies offering dedicated servers. Just looks around on this forum to get prices & features.

I have been in 'business' for more than twenty years, not only the internet business!! (which do you mean by the way, Einstein, the WWW or the internet?)

If you are one of those who believes that the 'internet business' stands on its own without normal business procedures and required acumen, then I would doubt you'll last long enough to host any body for any length of time, regardless of your shameless plug!

You have a problem with Catalog or 4webspace??

Now I realise why you jumped, you're the 18 or 19 yo that we were 'defending' in another post about the age of web host operators.

Didn't like the 20 years in business comment did you?

Well even though I defended you before, I now see that this is an example of your immaturity!!

By the way, the original request was for recommendations, which I made with full qualifications as to why. I thought that's what was supposed to happen here, not just 'search'!

Now now... please resort to email for any continuation of this. Muchas gracias.

Chicken,

I apologise for the outburst. I will/you can remove these posts if you wish.

I believe I was originally offering a reply in the spirit of the forum. My punctuation was incorrect which caused the response from the other honourable member.

woa, I didn't meant to insult anyone here.

I just meant that it is impossible to have 20 years of experience in Internet business, no matter how old you are.

FYI, I am 20 years old... yes I am young, but I have a clear memory of when internet was simply gopher and ftp servers :D

Of course a company can have a lot of experience with computers, and that gives them the hability understand them well. But there are issues that being old have no effect on. Young technologies are... young!

However, I admit that my comment was a bit pointless.

I am sorry not to be able to provide 100% helpfull comments all the time, I may slip, for which I humbly appologize.

I remember chatting on IRC on a 900 baud modem while I was still in my mums tummy :)

Originally posted by cbaker17
I remember chatting on IRC on a 900 baud modem while I was still in my mums tummy :)

Bah! You youngsters had it so easy. Back in my day I had to connect to the Internet using my Fisher Price Abacus. And I could only talk to researchers at UCLA, Utah, UCSB, and SRI: http://som.csudh.edu/cis/lpress/history/arpamaps/press.jpg


allan

Wohoo! We have some really old people on the this board. I hope I dun trip over your walking sticks :D

Originally posted by kunal
Wohoo! We have some really old people on the this board. I hope I dun trip over your walking sticks :D
Heh :)

Well I remember internet when all it was was Compuserv, AOL and a few others hooked to a few university in the USA.

It used to cost about $1 per hour of usage and you were in shell only with no graphic.

Try to find a ISP offering shell access now? :)

Félix C.Courtemanche,

Many providers still offer unix shells, including the one which I work for. It's just really unfortunate that companies like AOL had to completely take over the market, with their "user friendly" interface. I can get along quite well using jaim, a text-based AIM. ;)