$59/month 2.8Ghz 160GB 10Mbps unmetered FREE CP (NOW WITH MORE!) [Archive]

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 02:52 PM

To celebrate our success on our initial launch of our Hong Kong dedicated server previous on WHT two weeks ago at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=456330 . We're now offering even more features to our customers.

Control Panels
We've managed to get CPanel and DirectAdmin into our network and we're able to offer them at the "Cheapest it can be found in Asia" pricing, we’ve spent a long time to discuss with our vendor, and we decided to pay back the success to our exist customers as well as new customers we'll sell them at a great pricing listed below.

Monitoring with SMS
Also we've managed to setup a monitoring system, to help our customer to save money on outsource monitoring. Our monitoring system is setup to work with SMS gateway, the server being monitored will be checked every few minutes (adjustable) and if the server is down for any reason, our monitoring system will send a SMS message to you, our technicians, or both parties per your choice via a SMS gateway, and the service is available to most of the cell phone network worldwide. You can setup to let us reboot the server once we receive the SMS alert or to have yourself call us for reboots, 24/7 report is available for request every month. With our monitoring system, you can rest assure and enjoy highest possible uptime.

For a LIMITED time/quantity (which ever come first), we're offering DirectAdmin FREE OF CHARGE to exist and new customers (yes, we always take care of our exist customers!). For new customers the first 20 person post a reply on this thread or "PM" and request for the FREE DirectAdmin offer will receive DirectAdmin free of charge, so act quick!

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

HKSLD-P281-10
Intel Pentium 4 531 3GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!) (free upgrade to P4 630 3Ghz! 2MB CACHE)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$79/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

Download Test: http://www.hostfresh.com.hk/10Mb.test

Control Panel:
CPanel License $29/month
DirectAdmin is currently FREE (Limited Time)!

Monitoring:
Additional 1 monitoring service $5/month.
SMS alert service is $10 per 30 SMS messages.

Upgrades:
Additional 512MB RAM $15/month OR $59/one-time
Additional 160GB HDD $25/month OR $99/one-time

If you have any questions or would like to sign up, feel free to email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com, submit an order request at https://support.hostfresh.com or post here.

Cheers!

Sephirex

11-10-2005, 02:58 PM

Tempting though it is, unfortunately I am in the UK and the speed is really slow.
A great deal nonetheless =)

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:06 PM

Yes, half of routes to UK goes through US, there's some european traffic going through Flagtel which gets good result, they'll be improved over time.

Thank you for your comment thought and hopefully one day UK ISP will have more peer with us and you'll consider us again. :)

- Bill

stevey

11-10-2005, 03:07 PM

im getting 188KB/sec and pinging at 319ms from UK

edit, yeah the tracert goes, UK --> USA --> Japan --> Hong Kong

renegadeavenger

11-10-2005, 03:12 PM

Hi bill! I want to order 2 more P4 3ghz specials.

Thanks

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:17 PM

Hi bill! I want to order 2 more P4 3ghz specials.

Thanks

Will be adding 2 more P4 into your account, thanks for your continued business and will talk to you on email/msn soon! :)

- Bill

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:19 PM

im getting 188KB/sec and pinging at 319ms from UK

edit, yeah the tracert goes, UK --> USA --> Japan --> Hong Kong

It's not bad at all, consider the data goes all around the world!

Will you be able to post a traceroute or let us know which ISP you're using?

- Bill

stevey

11-10-2005, 03:20 PM

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:25 PM

a few questions;

is there ability to upgrade to 20Mbit, 50mbit, 100mbit? if so what is the cost to upgrade to them?

are these unmanaged servers? if so how much would it be for them to be managed?

do you offer webmin?

Hi Stevey,

Yes, it's possible to upgrade to 20Mbits and 100Mbits, you can contact us directly for pricing as we do not usually offer them.

The above offers are unmanaged servers with monitoring service, for managed service depending on your needs, generally it goes for around $75/month with 4 hours of advanced support/on-site service and initial advanced setup.

Let me know how you think of our deals. ;)

- Bill

stevey

11-10-2005, 03:33 PM

It's not bad at all, consider the data goes all around the world!

Will you be able to post a traceroute or let us know which ISP you're using?

- Bill

tracert is from my colo server in london uk on 100mbit port, seems to time out at the end:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms rb-sov-edge.netrino.co.uk
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms rb-sov-edge.netrino.co.uk
3 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms ge0-1.level3.lon.rapidswitch.com [195.50.112.61]
4 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms so-1-2-0.gar1.London1.Level3.net [212.113.0.114]
5 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms ge-1-0.core2.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.14]
6 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms p4-1-1-0.r21.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net [129.250.9.221]
7 72 ms 71 ms 73 ms p16-0-1-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.91]
8 * 72 ms 72 ms xe-0-3-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.33]
9 139 ms 139 ms 138 ms p64-0-0-0.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.16]
10 266 ms 264 ms 269 ms p64-1-3-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.186]
11 319 ms 266 ms 331 ms p4-3-0-0.r01.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.202]
12 337 ms 414 ms 325 ms p4-2-0-0.r00.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.34]
13 330 ms 324 ms 336 ms ge-0-0-0.a02.newthk01.hk.ra.verio.net [203.131.240.234]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.

rustelekom

11-10-2005, 03:41 PM

Have a few servers with them (purchased for our customers). Customers very happy with speed and trace and also especially with server hardware quality. Purchase process is simple, very clear for understanding (english is not our native language) and sales always support you with any questions. Support, and general company at all very friendly and try answer to any our request.
Custom quote for custom configuration also is great features which offered by Hostfresh. If you need something which not listed just ask support and you will surprised with good and inexpensive offer.

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:48 PM

tracert is from my colo server in london uk on 100mbit port, seems to time out at the end:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms rb-sov-edge.netrino.co.uk
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms rb-sov-edge.netrino.co.uk
3 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms ge0-1.level3.lon.rapidswitch.com [195.50.112.61]
4 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms so-1-2-0.gar1.London1.Level3.net [212.113.0.114]
5 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms ge-1-0.core2.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.14]
6 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms p4-1-1-0.r21.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net [129.250.9.221]
7 72 ms 71 ms 73 ms p16-0-1-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.91]
8 * 72 ms 72 ms xe-0-3-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.33]
9 139 ms 139 ms 138 ms p64-0-0-0.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.16]
10 266 ms 264 ms 269 ms p64-1-3-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.186]
11 319 ms 266 ms 331 ms p4-3-0-0.r01.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.202]
12 337 ms 414 ms 325 ms p4-2-0-0.r00.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.34]
13 330 ms 324 ms 336 ms ge-0-0-0.a02.newthk01.hk.ra.verio.net [203.131.240.234]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.

Yes, we've setup firewall to drop ping packets, so you'll see timed-out at our server, you can try 202.67.156.111 for a complete traceroute.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 03:53 PM

Takunya

11-10-2005, 04:58 PM

hi i need windows 2003 web how much it?

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 05:07 PM

Can you email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com for a quote for Windows license, thanks!

- Bill

sjohns

11-10-2005, 05:23 PM

Hi, Id like to share my experiance so far with HostFresh, so far it has been great, the server has had 100% uptime since I got it, overall my experiance has been nothing but good! :) Keep it up :).

Salomon

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 05:27 PM

Thanks for sharing your experience Salomon, we're glad that you're happy with us and hopefully we'll do more business in the future. :)

- Bill

dollah

11-10-2005, 05:49 PM

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 06:16 PM

Going to purchase our second server from Hostfresh :)

Having slightly problem during payment (they do not accept Visa Electron), however, things become smooth after I use paypal for payment.

The network is nice, and Bill is very very prompt in handling my emails.

Glad you're happy and thanks for your effort and setting up paypal account in order to get the server from us, looking forward to build a long term relationship between our companies!

- Bill

UH-Wes

11-10-2005, 06:55 PM

Yes, we've setup firewall to drop ping packets, so you'll see timed-out at our server, you can try 202.67.156.111 for a complete traceroute.

- Bill

I couldn't get a complete traceroute from the IP you gave... but your offers are extremely tempting! :agree:

Tracing route to 202.67.156.111 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 23 ms 16 ms 13 ms adsl-83-100-194-254.karoo.KCOM.COM [3.100.194.2
54]
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms vlan-251.nr2.civ.ipc.kcom.com [10.102.240.129]
3 19 ms 17 ms 17 ms 10.54.14.7
4 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms 213-152-232-170.available.lhr.above.net [213.152.232.170]
5 19 ms 17 ms 17 ms pos0-0.pr1.lhr1.uk.above.net [208.184.231.70]
6 18 ms 22 ms 19 ms r20.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net [208.185.188.154]
7 94 ms 95 ms 95 ms p16-0-1-1.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.134]
8 161 ms 160 ms 161 ms p64-0-0-0.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
5.16]
9 286 ms 285 ms 287 ms p64-1-3-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.186]
10 290 ms 354 ms 338 ms p4-2-0-0.r01.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.4.102]
11 345 ms 352 ms 340 ms p4-1-3-0.r01.newthk01.hk.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.58]
12 346 ms * 356 ms ge-3-1-0.a02.newthk01.hk.ra.verio.net [203.131.240.254]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * 338 ms * ge-1-0-0.a02.newthk01.hk.ra.verio.net [203.131.240.238]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

What DC are you in?

HostFresh

11-10-2005, 07:09 PM

Sorry, try this 202.67.156.117 (most of our server's firewall drops ping).

We're in HKNET, owned and managed by NTT Communication, sister company of NTT/Verio.

- Bill

RHChristian

11-11-2005, 02:03 AM

What and how much international bandwidth do you guys have? I may be interested in a 100mbit...

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 02:08 AM

l0ck_up

11-11-2005, 03:20 AM

is the directadmin free still available?
do you accept payment by creditcard?

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 03:24 AM

is the directadmin free still available?
do you accept payment by creditcard?

Yes, it's still available.

We accept Visa and Master as well as Paypal payment.

I've PM you the order page.

- Bill

dexx

11-11-2005, 05:25 AM

could you please post windows2003, plesk, extra IP, MSSQL prices?

phyto

11-11-2005, 06:01 AM

how much for w2k/w2k3web and std? tks.

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 07:53 AM

Please email us for Windows 2003 quote, we should be able to get them next week.

Still finalizing with Plesk, so if you would like to get it, email us!

Thanks,
Bill

miltongoh

11-11-2005, 08:29 AM

The speed is excellent! I can get around 200kb/s from my home connection in Singapore.

Is there still any system available?

visualfast

11-11-2005, 12:09 PM

THANKS BILL For such a nice server i m quite happy with server speed and performance No issue @ all works perfect and 100% uptime so far
i will buy another server from you guyz
Thanks you so much
From
Kamran Iqbal

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 01:05 PM

The speed is excellent! I can get around 200kb/s from my home connection in Singapore.

Is there still any system available?

Hi Miton,

Yes, we still have a few boxes left!

Sounds good that our speed is also nice to Singaporean, did you try to download the file from your colocation server, would like to know the performance from DC to DC too. ;)

- Bill

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 01:06 PM

caracal

11-11-2005, 03:40 PM

Can you give me a website I can visit from there?
I have a website with a primary US audience.. the price is tempting, but I don't think it will load fast enough for people? Any suggestions?
I get 200kps from Toronto,Canada..

HostFresh

11-11-2005, 04:23 PM

Try this - www.hkfreearea.com this is a chinese forum with 90k members.

mohsenh

11-11-2005, 07:32 PM

athlonkmf

11-11-2005, 07:54 PM

I am also interested in one of the 59 dollar celeron. Is it still available?

I've just emailed your sales.

And do you still have this?

HKSLD-P281-10
Intel Pentium 4 531 3GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!) (free upgrade to P4 630 3Ghz! 2MB CACHE)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$79/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

yea722

11-11-2005, 09:03 PM

amal

11-11-2005, 10:11 PM

Do the price on cpanel include fantastico ? or just cpanel ?

renegadeavenger

11-11-2005, 11:46 PM

I believe it is just cpanel at this time. Fantastico licenses is something that will be available shortly.

renegadeavenger

11-12-2005, 12:20 AM

Interested about :

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

Do you still have these available and with free directadmin?

yea722, I believe they should still have directadmin, it IS their special :P email sales@hostfresh.com to confirm.

Hey I want one of your servers. The 59 dollars one.

If this first one turns out fine like the others on the forums said I might move all my dedis to Hong Kong. Please let me know how I can act upon it. I want to pay through wire transfer and preferrably pay 3 months in advance. Do I get in discounts for that?

Thanks,
Mohsen

Mohsen, I also suggest that you email sales@hostfresh.com to work out possible discounts for prepaying as 'usually' discount issues for prepay are answered from emails not on public forums.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 01:10 AM

Hey I want one of your servers. The 59 dollars one.

If this first one turns out fine like the others on the forums said I might move all my dedis to Hong Kong. Please let me know how I can act upon it. I want to pay through wire transfer and preferrably pay 3 months in advance. Do I get in discounts for that?

Thanks,
Mohsen

Hi Mohsen,

Contact us at sales [at] hostfresh.com, I've also sent a PM to you, will discuss with you in details regarding the payment terms.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 01:12 AM

Thanks for your interest, and Yes they're still available, I've replied you from email. :)

- Bill

I am also interested in one of the 59 dollar celeron. Is it still available?

I've just emailed your sales.

And do you still have this?

HKSLD-P281-10
Intel Pentium 4 531 3GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!) (free upgrade to P4 630 3Ghz! 2MB CACHE)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$79/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 01:21 AM

Yes, PM me if you'd like to order, thanks! :)

Interested about :

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

Do you still have these available and with free directadmin?

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 01:32 AM

Currently, it's just Cpanel.

Do the price on cpanel include fantastico ? or just cpanel ?

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 02:03 AM

FYI, we're running low on rack space, orders received today should setup during the weekend and rest will be setup on Tuesday.

DirectAdmin will be available on Monday and people who ordered CPanel will receive their license in 24 hours of server setup.

Thank for for your support guys and girls! :)

Best Regards,
Bill

Takunya

11-12-2005, 06:01 AM

i need you celeron server with windows
its avilaible now?

renegadeavenger

11-12-2005, 09:17 AM

Takunya, try contacting their sales team: sales@hostfresh.com

madjinx

11-12-2005, 09:43 AM

interested in 59$ deal, please pm if any left, also info on if direct admin is still free.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:22 AM

i need you celeron server with windows
its avilaible now?

Contact us on email regarding windows servers.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:25 AM

interested in 59$ deal, please pm if any left, also info on if direct admin is still free.

Can't PM you, you need 5 posts to start using PM, we still got a few servers left, if you'd like to order, PM or email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com and we'll send you the order page link.

- Bill

athlonkmf

11-12-2005, 12:06 PM

I've ordered the p4 3Ghz server now. Was I still in time for the direct admin?

and I also asked for a Debian install, when can I expect it to be done then?

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 01:13 PM

I've ordered the p4 3Ghz server now. Was I still in time for the direct admin?

and I also asked for a Debian install, when can I expect it to be done then?

Thanks for your order, yes you're in time for directadmin, we still have a few and we're ordering more.

We can have your server setup on Sunday PST time.

- Bill

yea722

11-12-2005, 02:27 PM

Yes, PM me if you'd like to order, thanks! :)

Thanks, and had a couple of questions in the PM as well.

athlonkmf

11-12-2005, 03:14 PM

Do you have some examples of high-traffic/popular websites that are hosted at your company.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 03:19 PM

Do you have some examples of high-traffic/popular websites that are hosted at your company.

This is one of the largest that I know, but it's in Chinese - http://www.hkfreearea.com

Sephirex

11-12-2005, 05:03 PM

Hiya, I've paid, can you check and give me an answer please? Thanks.

sjohns

11-12-2005, 06:49 PM

I ordered another server today :), look forward to recieveing it, is there still servers left over? Id like to get a 3rd box :) later this week, thanks.

ayiehac

11-12-2005, 10:53 PM

coax_k

11-12-2005, 10:55 PM

I'm also awaiting a reply from an email sent 48 hours ago regarding a sales enquiry.

Trayton

11-12-2005, 11:33 PM

I would image they are extremly busy with all their orders, so it could take them some time to reply i imagine.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:41 PM

Hiya, I've paid, can you check and give me an answer please? Thanks.

Hi, payment received, you'll receive your server details by Sunday. :)

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:42 PM

I ordered another server today :), look forward to recieveing it, is there still servers left over? Id like to get a 3rd box :) later this week, thanks.

Thanks Salomon. :)

I'm pretty sure we're completely full right now (your order is the last we can take), however we'll try to setup an additional rack in this week and it should be available by Tuesday or latest Wednesday.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:45 PM

Hi i have send three email to you but still no reply? i have order p4 and even gave u the link to download my window 2003 std and wanted u to install with my license. But u still did not reply and i think have send u three email to sales@hostfresh.com. so can u check it out. wanted it fast. thanks.

Sorry for didn't reply you, we were waiting for Microsoft to get back to us, we'll be getting back to you in few days, we've downloaded the W2K3 files you send to us by the way.

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:46 PM

I'm also awaiting a reply from an email sent 48 hours ago regarding a sales enquiry.

Sorry can you PM me your email, maybe we've missed your email.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:50 PM

I would image they are extremly busy with all their orders, so it could take them some time to reply i imagine.

Yes, it's been a very busy weekend for us, we always try to provide the best service to our customer and answer all the email being received as soon as possible, I apologize if we missed any email.

Best Regards,
Bill

HostFresh

11-12-2005, 11:56 PM

Hello guys,

FYI, we're currently out of stock, if you'd like to take the same deal, you can preorder it by PM/email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com, order received from now on will being provisioned on Tuesday (or latest on Wednesday), you can pay in 3 days when we've the server available.

We won't be taking anymore orders from Friday (18th Nov), and to make sure every of our exist customer happy before we'll take more orders again.

- Bill

sjohns

11-13-2005, 02:02 AM

I would image they are extremly busy with all their orders, so it could take them some time to reply i imagine.

I emailed about a hard drive upgrade :P, no reply yet, shortly I hope :), I jus need it added to my other box, but im not in a huge rush, its also the weekend for them, they are a bit slower during the weekend, during the week it takes them 10 minutes to reply (at most)! :)

HostFresh

11-13-2005, 02:16 AM

sjohns

11-13-2005, 04:46 AM

Got your email, yes you'll receive free 160GB HDD upgrade, sorry for being late for the replies, we've been busy to setup the servers as soon as we can. Existing customer is always our first priority. :)

- Bill

Awsome! Thank you Bill :), I look forward to getting this server :D. No rush on the 3rd server, just drop me an email like you did this weekend, and Ill come by again :). Thanks again.

Salomon

Takunya

11-13-2005, 05:13 AM

i want this server too i wanntttttttttttttt:D

but windows:D

HostFresh

11-13-2005, 05:20 AM

Awsome! Thank you Bill :), I look forward to getting this server :D. No rush on the 3rd server, just drop me an email like you did this weekend, and Ill come by again :). Thanks again.

Salomon
Not a problem and thanks! :)

HostFresh

11-13-2005, 05:24 AM

i want this server too i wanntttttttttttttt:D

but windows:D

Give us a week or so, maybe we can come up with something for you.

- Bill

athlonkmf

11-13-2005, 12:50 PM

HostFresh

11-13-2005, 01:44 PM

... still waiting for my server. But then again, sunday isn't over yet in HK.The free 160GB upgrade. does that mean 160GB extra HDD or the 80GB is exchanged with an 160GB, or does it mean an extra 80GB HDD?

Your server will be ready by noon on Monday, which is Sunday PST time, the upgrade means you'll be getting 160GB HDD instead of 80GB, if you've any question regarding to your server, let us know. :)

- Bill

Virge

11-13-2005, 11:31 PM

Hello, I want the package below

HKSLD-P281-10
Intel Pentium 4 531 3GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!) (free upgrade to P4 630 3Ghz! 2MB CACHE)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$79/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

And I want the free DirectAdmin control panel.

Please send an email to YankeeJosephLeo@aol.com please and I will sign up immediatly

HostFresh

11-13-2005, 11:53 PM

Hello,

I've send you the email regarding how to order.

Best Regards,
Bill

Hello, I want the package below

HKSLD-P281-10
Intel Pentium 4 531 3GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!) (free upgrade to P4 630 3Ghz! 2MB CACHE)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$79/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

And I want the free DirectAdmin control panel.

Please send an email to YankeeJosephLeo@aol.com please and I will sign up immediatly

MasJ

11-14-2005, 01:58 AM

Well, I'd just like to put in a good word here. I ordered five celeron's from these guys. (The $59 deal, 10Mbit) The servers were due on Friday and they got them to me fast, infact, they stayed up till 4am (Sat. morning..) to setup the configuration I had asked for (I needed some special stuff installed.). I've not completed setup (from my side, ofcourse..) for all five of my servers yet but two of them are already up and running and going strong. The hardware quality is excellent, and the people working at hostfresh are really nice, this includes everyone I've interacted with (sales and technical support team..).
I've experienced no down time so far and the network links are pretty good all around the world. All in all, I'm quite satisfied, I'll come back with a more detailed review once I've used them for a bit longer :].

athlonkmf

11-14-2005, 11:04 AM

hmmm... still waiting for my server, hope to get when I'm back at home after work :)

I've asked (and paid) for a different install than centos (i want debian) so I wonder how that would work out..

I must say that I'm out of my budget again.

athlonkmf

11-14-2005, 01:14 PM

HostFresh

11-14-2005, 03:04 PM

I've also asked for a somewhat different partition scheme. Most companies I've been with, ignored that request (ev1servers the worst, only 1 partition...), I wonder if they will be able to configure it to my taste.

I've sent a email to you, got a little delay on your server. We'll have the partition scheme setup per your request from our support desk, I apologize for the little delay.

Best Regards,
Bill

HostFresh

11-14-2005, 03:06 PM

athlonkmf

11-14-2005, 03:06 PM

I've sent a email to you, got a little delay on your server. We'll have the partition scheme setup per your request from our support desk, I apologize for the little delay.

Best Regards,
Bill
Alright, doesn't matter, as long as you keep me informed :)

Trayton

11-14-2005, 03:50 PM

I have a ticket open with you but it says on hold? Just mostly a question concerning the direct admin licenses you said you would be getting today to install them on our servers as mine is one of the ones needing it :).

Other then that everything is great so far :0

SumarMDS

11-14-2005, 04:09 PM

1. Adult content allowed?
2. Is additional IP`s possible?

:nzflag:

HostFresh

11-14-2005, 04:17 PM

1. Adult content allowed?
2. Is additional IP`s possible?

:nzflag:
Legal Adult content is allowed, additional IP is possible to be upgraded.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-14-2005, 04:18 PM

Trayton

11-14-2005, 04:49 PM

Thanks great company so far fast support and very friendly :)

sjohns

11-14-2005, 07:06 PM

Bill, has a rack for IRC been considered?? :D, im very much looking forward to hearing from you guys on this :).

Salomon

athlonkmf

11-14-2005, 07:36 PM

are there any DDOS-protection anyway? In case IRC is going to be allowed?

jeff123

11-14-2005, 07:48 PM

I'd like the following if the offer is still valid. Please let me know.

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

With Upgrades:
Additional 512MB RAM $59/one-time

athlonkmf

11-14-2005, 08:55 PM

that p4 3ghz, is that with hyperthreading?

renegadeavenger

11-14-2005, 08:58 PM

IRC may be added in the future but it will be on a seperate network.

Athlonkmf: P4 3ghz is in Hyperthreading as I have 4 machines from them and know this.

Jeff123: Try emailing sales@hostfresh.com as quantities are limited.. not too sure if you are sneak an email to them before they run out!

ayiehac

11-15-2005, 12:38 AM

hi, have any update news about windows server?

visualfast

11-15-2005, 12:45 AM

i m currenlty using windows server from them =) quite fast server
but windows is trail version =)

ayiehac

11-15-2005, 01:13 AM

cools. i have emailed them and order p4 with upgrade to 1gb ram. please check it out. thanks.

renegadeavenger

11-15-2005, 01:42 AM

no worries, windows will be offered.

HostFresh

11-15-2005, 01:45 AM

Thanks great company so far fast support and very friendly :)

Thank you very much. :)

Bill, has a rack for IRC been considered?? :D, im very much looking forward to hearing from you guys on this :).

Salomon

We're still in discussion, we eta yet.

are there any DDOS-protection anyway? In case IRC is going to be allowed?

Our upsteam have ddos-protection, we currently don't allow irc.

I'd like the following if the offer is still valid. Please let me know.

Yes, email or PM us for the order link. :)

that p4 3ghz, is that with hyperthreading?
Yes, the P4 630 has 2MB cache, HT and support 64bits OS.

hi, have any update news about windows server?
Currently, we're still working on getting Windows server, unless you can provide us the license, which a few people did. It's expected to be ready in about a week.

Thank you very much for the support guys, the sales went really well and we're currently catching up on setting up servers, thus we didn't update as quick as we did before on WHT. :)

Best Regards,
Bill

ayiehac

11-15-2005, 01:50 AM

cools. done payment have beend made. looking forward to get my server

HostFresh

11-15-2005, 02:46 AM

cools. done payment have beend made. looking forward to get my server
Thank you very much. :)

athlonkmf

11-15-2005, 06:25 AM

Ah cool, so I'm getting a HT-p4 . I didn't even noticed the free upgrade for the CPU, only saw the free upgrade for the HDD :P

Now still waiting patiently for my server. :)

I have already notified my members throughout the world to massdownload a testfile to see how well the system will cope with it once I receive it :P

HostFresh

11-15-2005, 10:46 AM

boonchuan

11-15-2005, 04:36 PM

Can I provide my own Windows server license and controlpanel license? What will be the cost then?

athlonkmf

11-15-2005, 05:25 PM

I've taken the day to install and configure the server with the programs I needed (the partition is made as I wished :P )

I've quickly setupped a small file and let people test it out. Now uploading a big one to see if it's better speed. (upload is very slow for me...)

This is what my members speeded:

NY- USA

started at 120kb/s but quickly went up to 230kb/s

ASIA - Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
started about 40+kb/s average and went up to 50+kb/s almost till end....

Australia - around 32 kb/s took around 2:30 minutes to dl.

Sydney, Australia
Slow as expected
only got 60 - 70K's ps.

Europe - The Netherlands
Started as 700+, but quicly dropped to 200-230 kbps.

IL, USA
a good average speed at 160 kb/s
the speed was goin 180 kbs. it took me like 15 secs to dl =]

UK
120kbps
took about 20 - 30 seconds

From USA
Averaging around 170 kb/s. Took around 15-20 seconds to download.

120-150 here in Canada.

Europe- The Netherlands
+/- 70 kb/s

Transfer rate from 100-175 kb/sec
Total time about 1 mins.
location: germany!

200 - 220Kbs USA

Asia - Singapore
btw 230-235kbs

( Europe)Sweden
About 150kb/s

Europe- The Netherlands
300+ kb/s

Location: Canada
Speed: max is roughly 180KB/s

ASIA - Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
started about 30+kb/s and went up to 47.2kb/s till end

Talk about diverted speeds... I've now installed a graphing system. ANd let my members download so I can have an idea what the avg speed can be compared to the system load. I'll let you see after a day (so I have a full graph)

The server itself downloaded from the US with 100-150kb/s (debian packages)

afghank

11-15-2005, 09:24 PM

hello, i would like to know if you still provide these configuration

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

Can i pay with visa credit card?

HostFresh

11-16-2005, 12:51 AM

Can I provide my own Windows server license and controlpanel license? What will be the cost then?

We will only charge $25 for custom OS reinstall, if you can provide the licenses, email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com for the details. :)

- Bill

HostFresh

11-16-2005, 12:56 AM

Yes, we're still offering it, please contact us at sales [at] hostfresh.com if you'd like to have more or to order, we accept Visa, Master and Paypal payments currently.

Best Regards,
Bill

hello, i would like to know if you still provide these configuration

HKSLD-CD281-10
Intel Celeron D 336 2.8GHz (Intel EM64T Ready!)
512MB DDR400 RAM
80GB, 7200RPM, SATA Hard Disk Drive with 8MB Cache (free upgrade to 160GB!)
10Mbps unmetered quality bandwidth
1 FREE monitoring service (SMS not included)
2 Static IP Addresses
99.9% Network Uptime SLA
Centos 4.2

$59/Month $30/setup - Month to Month Payment – FREE DIRECTADMIN (Limited Time)!

Can i pay with visa credit card?

BiGWill

11-16-2005, 04:12 AM

Wow what a great deal!
Hope the speed stays that fast 24/7 as it is now for all your international costumers!

HostFresh

11-16-2005, 11:59 AM

Wow what a great deal!
Hope the speed stays that fast 24/7 as it is now for all your international costumers!

Thanks for your comment, we'll make sure the network speed will be steady for our customer, otherwise we can always pick up another network. :)

- Bill

imrahil

11-17-2005, 10:15 AM

We will only charge $25 for custom OS reinstall, if you can provide the licenses, email us at sales [at] hostfresh.com for the details. :)

- Bill

I have some questions:

* Is it mean OS reinstall costs $25? If not, how much does OS re-install cost?
* Do you support FreeBSD 6.x or Slackware 10.x (or can install)?
* How much custom partition adjustment cost? Free? :D
* Is there any remote-reboot option (free or paid)?
* If there is no remote-reboot option, Are reboot requests free? :D And in how many hours is it be done?
* What is hardware replacement SLA?
* Is there any option to get any discount (or any discount for additional hardware - like one time setup fee discount for extra/upgrade RAM/HDD) if I don't want to get "Free DirectAdmin" option?
* Do you have support option on GTalk/MSN/AIM/ICQ? And in which hours?

Best regards.

PS: Sorry if I bore you with my endless questions :gone:

:trflag:

HostFresh

11-17-2005, 01:22 PM

* Is it mean OS reinstall costs $25? If not, how much does OS re-install cost?
A: Yes, OS reinstall is $25/one-time
* Do you support FreeBSD 6.x or Slackware 10.x (or can install)?
A: We can install any OS other than CentOS for $25/one-time
* How much custom partition adjustment cost? Free? :D
A: Custom partition is free.
* Is there any remote-reboot option (free or paid)?
A: We only offer 24/7 phone call for reboots.
* If there is no remote-reboot option, Are reboot requests free? :D And in how many hours is it be done?
A: It'll be free, usually it take less than 3 minutes for us to reboot once you call us.
* What is hardware replacement SLA?
A: We'll replace it same day usually within 6 hours.
* Is there any option to get any discount (or any discount for additional hardware - like one time setup fee discount for extra/upgrade RAM/HDD) if I don't want to get "Free DirectAdmin" option?
A: No, there'll be no additional discount.
* Do you have support option on GTalk/MSN/AIM/ICQ? And in which hours?
A: General support is over our helpdesk at https://support.hostfresh.com

athlonkmf

11-20-2005, 08:28 AM

Hmm... for some reason my server is suddenly unreachable, just when I was putting it on life.

I've submitted a support ticket and tried to call that tollfree number, but couldn't reach through.
That less than 3 minutes for a reboot is not true in this case then... Better make it 10 :) (it took 10 minutes to reboot)

stevey

11-20-2005, 10:06 AM

im not happy at all, server has been down 24 hours now and am still waiting

visualfast

11-20-2005, 10:44 AM

24 hrs?
is that posible?

stevey

11-20-2005, 10:47 AM

yes and still waiting and have had no reply from them since yesterday, not happy at all

HostFresh

11-20-2005, 11:13 AM

Someone within our network has been hi-jacking other user's IP, we've contacted our network admin to indentify the problem and we'll come up with a permentant solution shortly.

HostFresh

11-20-2005, 11:21 AM

Affected users, please contact us at our support desk, so we can work it out with you directly.

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 12:11 PM

is there a solution yet for that hijacking problem? My server is being rebooted constantly since I've put up a supportticket for that problem.

MasJ

11-21-2005, 12:18 PM

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. On all FIVE of my servers! This is really annoying. It's not rebooting anymore thankfully (up for the last 2 hours..) but now one more of them has gone down, and inaccessible for some reason. I can login to it from my other boxes with hostfresh, but I cannot get into it from any outside network. (I can't SSH from my own computer..)

I'm talking to support about this issue, constantly. Lets hope some solution comes up soon. They're telling me something is wrong with my network config now.. =/

bodhisattva

11-21-2005, 12:21 PM

yeah, we have been experiencing the same problems. the network service was top notch up until yesterday. since than we've had a few long outtages.

currently my server there is not reachable.

i'm really not one to complain. problems do arise. i just do hope they get things sorted out soon.

MasJ

11-21-2005, 12:24 PM

Yeah, it keeps coming on and going off. They said they're getting some permanent fixes but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. I guess it's more annoying when you have five servers and they're all out of reach =P.
Update: All of them are now out of reach again..

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 12:34 PM

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 12:42 PM

oh great, now my server is out or reach too...

MasJ

11-21-2005, 12:44 PM

I'm quite sure it's not a configuration problem. If they did a default CentOS install then there shouldn't be any problems at all.. Also, it's reassuring to know that I'm not the only customer having this problem..
He told me that there's something wrong with my network configuration and that I'd need an OS install. I thought that was quite outrageous. He said the network is logging my server off for some reason...so much for some help..

I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of this, and hopefully manage to fix it soon, my servers are all up again and this time they didn't reboot, they just became inaccessible. So that's some improvement =P.

Ofcourse, you have to remember you get what you pay for, and if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true ;).

In any case, they've been excellent so far and some minor hiccups happen with all networks, I can easily forgive them for this since it's the first time something like this has happened..

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 12:54 PM

well, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, because cheap prices doesn't always mean bad service. But the standard "reinstall os"response is not really assuring.

I've just received a response now, they've changed something in my config.. have to find out what..

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 01:01 PM

it lasted... 5 minutes.... offline again...

luckily I've only used it as an image server at this moment to test things out, but still... It was meant as a replacement for another server, but this situation is not really assuring now. I think I'll keep my other server for another month, till these problems are fixed.

I can imagine them having some hiccups, because they of course threw in a couple of extra racks in a week time.

MasJ

11-21-2005, 01:03 PM

Yep, mine are offline again as well =/

athlonkmf

11-21-2005, 01:09 PM

HostFresh

11-21-2005, 02:42 PM

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the delayed respond as we were working hard to fix the internal network issues for the whole day (we've been keeping the support desk answered 2-30 minutes all day).

We at first were having problem with a customer adding unauthorized IP to his own server, and that crashed the switch, while we tried to reboot it several times, the switch managed to get itself killed. So we had to swap out the new switch that was supposed to be installed on the new rack for the new servers.

Right now there's a 24 hours delay for the servers that was meant to be provisioned today, as we've promised for 1 day you've to wait for the server setup, you'll get 2 days back for waiting as compensation, you're free to ask for a refund (1 person out of 15 has requested for it) and we'll have it refunded right away.

Feel free to call us, you can ask whoever called us, we pick up the phone within 2 rings 24/7.

If you're still having a problem, feel free to submit a ticket on our support desk or give us a call, 24/7 as always.

athlonkmf

11-22-2005, 08:16 AM

the servers seems to be back online now. So I assume everything is OK now and the servers can be "live"again?

bunal

11-22-2005, 12:43 PM

Can you post how many servers do you have free now and the price list for control panels. For example helm for windows.

Thanks

renegadeavenger

11-22-2005, 02:03 PM

i don't understand why they get rebooted though... is someone sending reboot requests throughout the network or something....

I've put my other server back up as the imageserver now though.. this doesn't look good for my website. And to think i've paid more than 100 dollar extra for all custom installations and upgrades...

I must say though, their response is quite fast.

Athlonkmf, the hacking world consists of the dark force and is quite "deadly". Hi-jacking IP's is not something that's unheard of, it is quite common actually as this sort of thing happened similiarly in the past at other datacenter's I've been with. They don't need to reboot your machine to jack your IP address, anything is possible in the realm of haxors.

renegadeavenger

11-22-2005, 02:07 PM

Can you post how many servers do you have free now and the price list for control panels. For example helm for windows.

Thanks

bunal, I think new orders are temproary on hold right now, but I guess you can try emailing sales to ask.

renegadeavenger

11-22-2005, 02:10 PM

athlonkmf: From what I've heard, everything should be back to normal now, apparently the abuser that hi-jacked IP addresses tried to claim over 100+ IP's on the network.

Also, here is my response to this entire situation that happened:

I want to let everyone know that HostFresh.com has a very dedicated team. It is unfortunate for the problems that they are facing but don't we all face these sort of problems ? Every datacenter that I've been with had failures with cisco switches going bad or the port just dying. Abusers causing some problems on the network is not something that's unheard of. Just because of technical problems doesn't mean that there is problems with HostFresh.com. What actually counts is when you look at the company as a whole, how reliable are they? Reliability is determined by how quickly they fix a problem when something arise. So far HostFresh.com has provided that for me. They are also just starting off, some minor glitches with things are normal. Don't we all learn from mistakes? So far I don't think anyone should draw conclusions because their support is by far one of the best support I've experienced. Their team is indeed very dedicated to helping with support issues and I strongly think that their network has been up 99.99% of the time but because of the faulty cisco hardware and idiot abusers stealing other people's IP addresses caused some hiccups. Bill and his team has been working hard at the datacenter all day with the recent faulty cisco switch and hi-jacking IP abuser and didn't even have time to eat while spending over 15+ hours working there. Come on guys, give him some credit for his dedication. No body wants to experience problems but when it comes to hardware going bad that is totally unexpected and not controllable. I also totally respect HostFresh's decision on not accepting anymore orders until all current customers are happy and everything is stable. I've been with several datacenters that just keep accepting new customers and ended up with providing horrible support and constant downtime. HostFresh definitely has the right mindset.

Thank You HostFresh for providing an honest description of what happened and the quick repair time.

renegadeavenger

11-22-2005, 02:21 PM

Just for everyone's information. I currently have 4 servers with HostFresh, only one machine was mainly affected during this, so for sure I know that it only affected a certain rack and it did not apply to all servers. My other 3 servers stayed online without any problems during the IP hi-jack.

athlonkmf

11-22-2005, 05:36 PM

Athlonkmf, the hacking world consists of the dark force and is quite "deadly". Hi-jacking IP's is not something that's unheard of, it is quite common actually as this sort of thing happened similiarly in the past at other datacenter's I've been with. They don't need to reboot your machine to jack your IP address, anything is possible in the realm of haxors.

.... if you did not noticed, we said that our machines gets rebooted all the time during that IP hijacking thing according to the syslog. Even if the IP gets hijacked, there should be no need to keep rebooting our servers.

Don't make IP-jacking sounds magicly, it's done easily and everyone could do it. Just that the datacenter should have put protection against such schemes.

HostFresh

11-23-2005, 02:10 AM

Can you post how many servers do you have free now and the price list for control panels. For example helm for windows.

Thanks

Double post

HostFresh

11-23-2005, 02:14 AM

Can you post how many servers do you have free now and the price list for control panels. For example helm for windows.

Thanks

Currently we're not taking sales from new customer, if you've any question, you can contact us directly at sales[at]hostfresh.com

- Bill

HostFresh

11-23-2005, 02:16 AM

.... if you did not noticed, we said that our machines gets rebooted all the time during that IP hijacking thing according to the syslog. Even if the IP gets hijacked, there should be no need to keep rebooting our servers.

Don't make IP-jacking sounds magicly, it's done easily and everyone could do it. Just that the datacenter should have put protection against such schemes.

We had to reboot the servers that's affected to find out what the problem is, because we didn't have root password to the server, it forced us to reboot and read the boot log on every machines. Sorry for the inconvienence for causing the trouble and everything is back to normal now.

- Bill

HostFresh

11-23-2005, 02:18 AM

renegadeavenger

11-23-2005, 04:07 AM

.... if you did not noticed, we said that our machines gets rebooted all the time during that IP hijacking thing according to the syslog. Even if the IP gets hijacked, there should be no need to keep rebooting our servers.

Don't make IP-jacking sounds magicly, it's done easily and everyone could do it. Just that the datacenter should have put protection against such schemes.

I had 4 machines, only 1 machine experienced the reboots, my other 3 never got rebooted at all and were running happily during this problem. I guess it was restricted to only a few machines and definitely not everyone. In general datacenter's don't have too much protection with hi-jacking/stealing of IP's. I think one of the only solution for actually protecting IP addresses to specific machines is with the use of Vlans.

athlonkmf

11-23-2005, 06:53 AM

We had to reboot the servers that's affected to find out what the problem is, because we didn't have root password to the server, it forced us to reboot and read the boot log on every machines. Sorry for the inconvienence for causing the trouble and everything is back to normal now.

- Bill

wasn't it better if you asked the user for the root password then?
Because with all the reboots I couldn't trust the databases anymore and did a complete DB-restore to ensure that my data aren't corrupted.

I had 4 machines, only 1 machine experienced the reboots, my other 3 never got rebooted at all and were running happily during this problem. I guess it was restricted to only a few machines and definitely not everyone. In general datacenter's don't have too much protection with hi-jacking/stealing of IP's. I think one of the only solution for actually protecting IP addresses to specific machines is with the use of Vlans.

How about enforcing IP-rollout on switch-basis? Routing only to given IPs, and IPs that should not be accessible on that particular switch would be ignored. This of course requires much more networkconfiguration and management on the hoster-side, but it will reduce many problems like this.