I am about to start a hosting company and i'm wondering if I should sign up for a reseller account or buy a dedicated server from rackshack. I know enough about Unix/Linux so that I can admin my server and that is what I am preffering right now(dedicated.) The hosting company can loose money for 6 months before i'm totally broke so I think I can afford the dedicated server (In 6 months I would need 20-30 customers to break even so I think it's doable) Anyway I have a few questions:

Does anyone here run a hosting company on rackshack servers? If so, How is their datacenter reliability? Speed etc...

If I wanted to go the reseller way can you reccomend some good ones?

Thank you!

If you have sysadmin experience, then a dedicated server is definately the way to go. Since you're looking into RackShack servers, you could probably get a bunch of clients since you'd be able to offer a lot of bandwidth.

Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, though, as my servers aren't with RackShack.

Normally people go for reseller first because they don't have admin experience. If you already know how to administer a linux server, a dedicated server is the way to go. In addition, it is much easier to expand from a dedicated to another(additional) than it is from a reseller account to a dedicated server.

Altough another advantage of being a reseller is that the inital cost is lower. You may want to weight the two options.

Peter

Just keep in mind that Rackshack does not offer ANY sort of managed services. If you feel you are good enough with linux, I would go with them.

Ok, cool. I'm going with rackshack then. Does anyone know how fast of a connection you can get(not they're connection but how fast it is in real life.)

You can burst up to 10Mb/s.

Peter