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05-25-2002, 05:15 PM
Please note that the following is an account of my own personal experiences and is not biassed by other postings.
RACKSPACE – My initial dealings with Rackspace were fantastic. The sales staff really knew what they were talking about – deals could be made, plans were flexible and servers were configurable.
At the time I signed up with Rackspace, I had ordered a FreeBSD 4.2 server (4.4 was available at that stage, but not yet supported by Rackspace staff).
The server was available within 8 hours of signing my order form – very well configured. We immediately upgraded to 4.4-stable and disabled telnet etc. Gave the server a 48-hour run – got the loads up to 300+ and the server stayed online!
After many more tests, we found that this server was very robust and had excellent hardware.
The customer section (http://my.rackspace.com) is fantastic. IP’s are assigned in hours – customer support is tops+.
Rackspace’s network is extremely fast and well maintained. During the 6 months of service with Rackspace, we did receive around 4 notices for them working on the network. This affected our service only twice for a minimal amount of time.
The one problem I did find with Rackspace was that at one time our sshd failed to start, and we required a staff member to console in and restart the telnetd.
As we were running FBSD 4.4 – we were told they do not support this version of FreeBSD and would have to pay $75 per 30 mins for them to revert the server to 4.2 – it took them 2 hours to do this.
www.rackspace.com
RACKSHACK – Talk about instant activation! Upon signing up to rackshack, your server passwords are set on a pre-configured server while the IP is embedded in an email on-route to your inbox.
Customer support is not bad, but don’t expect them to do anything which may be construed as managed hosting. (custom configs etc)
I found their network to be very fast aside from the occasional lag spike (every 72 hours or so)
After our usual 48 hour test – the server was found to be stable.
Rackshack are cheap – they are definantly setting the benchmark for dedicated hosting prices. I do sometimes get the feeling their network is abused – I believe this is due to the high bandwidth allocations – but I have found response times to removing troubled customers to be improving.
Rackshack is definantly going to be around for awhile and will leave its mark in history.
www.rackshack.net
ESERVERS – I signed up for a FreeBSD server and had it only in just less than 2 weeks. The server was incorrectly configured – partitions messed up – packages incorrectly installed. So this gave us our first down time.
We advised the staff of this problem and gave explicit instructions on how to install FreeBSD (also told there was a hefty charge for the new install – although I believe we don’t have to pay it after providing a detailed report on the problems). The server was back up in 48 hours and was running great!
Usual 48 hour test showed this server was stable.
Network is often laggy and not quite as fast as rackshack and not nearly as good as rackspace.
Customer support is excellent – but be aware of hidden charges and ‘tricks’. First – when you are told you have 8 IP’s – you have only 5 working. When you get more IP’s they are free, but its costs you $5 per reverse DNS entry – we have a few IP’s and are currently arguing this issue BUT! You will always get a response to your queries in a reasonable time-frame and they are quite flexible – 100% SLA gives you peace of mind too
www.eservers.biz
FDCSERVERS – Signed up last week. Did some wheeling and dealing and got extra ram, better chip, no signup fee and a FreeBSD install. (Paid nearly a year in advanced).
The server was up and running in less than 24 hours.
Usual 48 hour test showed the server was stable.
The network is not redundant, but surprisingly fast. Had one or two lagspikes and latency is not quite as good as rackshack but better than eservers.
Customer support is great. Petr has a relaxed attitude to me, which is what I like. ICQ support while sometimes makes me wonder had proved instrumental in the signing up process. (great for making deals) – Additional IP’s were available on request, and reverse entries are free ;)
www.fdcservers.net
RACKSPACE – My initial dealings with Rackspace were fantastic. The sales staff really knew what they were talking about – deals could be made, plans were flexible and servers were configurable.
At the time I signed up with Rackspace, I had ordered a FreeBSD 4.2 server (4.4 was available at that stage, but not yet supported by Rackspace staff).
The server was available within 8 hours of signing my order form – very well configured. We immediately upgraded to 4.4-stable and disabled telnet etc. Gave the server a 48-hour run – got the loads up to 300+ and the server stayed online!
After many more tests, we found that this server was very robust and had excellent hardware.
The customer section (http://my.rackspace.com) is fantastic. IP’s are assigned in hours – customer support is tops+.
Rackspace’s network is extremely fast and well maintained. During the 6 months of service with Rackspace, we did receive around 4 notices for them working on the network. This affected our service only twice for a minimal amount of time.
The one problem I did find with Rackspace was that at one time our sshd failed to start, and we required a staff member to console in and restart the telnetd.
As we were running FBSD 4.4 – we were told they do not support this version of FreeBSD and would have to pay $75 per 30 mins for them to revert the server to 4.2 – it took them 2 hours to do this.
www.rackspace.com
RACKSHACK – Talk about instant activation! Upon signing up to rackshack, your server passwords are set on a pre-configured server while the IP is embedded in an email on-route to your inbox.
Customer support is not bad, but don’t expect them to do anything which may be construed as managed hosting. (custom configs etc)
I found their network to be very fast aside from the occasional lag spike (every 72 hours or so)
After our usual 48 hour test – the server was found to be stable.
Rackshack are cheap – they are definantly setting the benchmark for dedicated hosting prices. I do sometimes get the feeling their network is abused – I believe this is due to the high bandwidth allocations – but I have found response times to removing troubled customers to be improving.
Rackshack is definantly going to be around for awhile and will leave its mark in history.
www.rackshack.net
ESERVERS – I signed up for a FreeBSD server and had it only in just less than 2 weeks. The server was incorrectly configured – partitions messed up – packages incorrectly installed. So this gave us our first down time.
We advised the staff of this problem and gave explicit instructions on how to install FreeBSD (also told there was a hefty charge for the new install – although I believe we don’t have to pay it after providing a detailed report on the problems). The server was back up in 48 hours and was running great!
Usual 48 hour test showed this server was stable.
Network is often laggy and not quite as fast as rackshack and not nearly as good as rackspace.
Customer support is excellent – but be aware of hidden charges and ‘tricks’. First – when you are told you have 8 IP’s – you have only 5 working. When you get more IP’s they are free, but its costs you $5 per reverse DNS entry – we have a few IP’s and are currently arguing this issue BUT! You will always get a response to your queries in a reasonable time-frame and they are quite flexible – 100% SLA gives you peace of mind too
www.eservers.biz
FDCSERVERS – Signed up last week. Did some wheeling and dealing and got extra ram, better chip, no signup fee and a FreeBSD install. (Paid nearly a year in advanced).
The server was up and running in less than 24 hours.
Usual 48 hour test showed the server was stable.
The network is not redundant, but surprisingly fast. Had one or two lagspikes and latency is not quite as good as rackshack but better than eservers.
Customer support is great. Petr has a relaxed attitude to me, which is what I like. ICQ support while sometimes makes me wonder had proved instrumental in the signing up process. (great for making deals) – Additional IP’s were available on request, and reverse entries are free ;)
www.fdcservers.net