Giga-International.com offers high-performance dedicated servers with...


unmetered traffic
brand name hardware
root-access
superb international connections
99+% avalability
located in Germany, thus as secure and discreet as a Swiss bank account
instant support which is rarely excelled
outstandingly low prices, starting at 69.99 Euros / month
month-to-month contracts to offer you the highest flexibility


Please pay attention:
These are the LAST boxes we will offer for this price! These offers are NO MORE available in 10 days!

Our special offers in August are:

Dedicated Server M:
Intel Celeron 2,4 Ghz
1024 MB DDR-Ram
80 GB HDD
100mbit/s-port
Unmetered Traffic
month-to-month-contract available !
only 69,99 Euros / month !
Setup-fee starting at 0,00 Euros depending on the minimum contract period !

Dedicated Server L eco:
AMD Athlon64 3200+
1024 MB DDR-Ram
160 GB HDD
100mbit/s-port
Unmetered Traffic
only 74,99 Euros / month !
Setup-fee starting at 0,00 Euros depending on the minimum contract period !

Dedicated Server L:
Intel Pentium 4 3,0 Ghz HT
1024 MB DDR-Ram
160 GB HDD
100mbit/s-port
Unmetered Traffic
only 79,99 Euros / month !
Setup-fee starting at 0,00 Euros depending on the minimum contract period !

Dedicated Server XL:
Intel Pentium 4 3,0 Ghz HT
2048 MB DDR-Ram
250 GB HDD
100mbit/s-port
Unmetered Traffic
only 89,99 Euros / month !
Setup-fee starting at 0,00 Euros depending on the minimum contract period !

Dedicated Server XXL:
Dual Intel Xeon 3,0 Ghz HT (2 processors)
4096 MB DDR-Ram
2 x 250 GB HDD
100mbit/s-port
Unmetered Traffic
only 199,99 Euros / month !
Setup-fee starting at 0,00 Euros depending on the minimum contract period !

Available for EVERY server:

Reboot tickets: free of charge, daily
Root access
99%+ network avalability
An unlimited number of additional domains can be ordered
Several Linux distributions (free!) as well as Windows Server 2003 available
Hardwareupgrades and Softwareupgrades available (for example Control-Panels like CPanel, Plesk, Confixx; Remote-Reboot-Interface; Automatic System Re-Installer etc.)


Our data center is monitored 24/7, air-conditioned, emergency generator etc.
Please take a look at the details of our data center here: http://www.giga-international.com/rechenzentrum.php
You may also want to have a look at the heart of our business - our servers: http://www.giga-international.com/server.php

Giga-International.com offers a Live-Webcam which is online day and night for all of its customers and visitors:
http://www.giga-international.com/webcam.php

A Test-IP (Dedicated Server M, Celeron 2,4) is: 217.172.44.66
A test-download-file (on the same server) is: http://www.giga-hosting.biz/30mb-file.rar

Our instant support is rarely excelled:
A member of staff is always available to answer your questions and help you with any problems that may arise. Contact us using the chat program 'ICQ', by telephone and e-mail, 365 days a year.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact our service department:
support@giga-international.com

On our website http://www.giga-international.com you finally will be able to order a server or to look into further details.

Best regards,
Support Giga-International.com

how many servers is the port shared with?

Hi MMEDV,

too bad you are changing your prices. We are in the market for a server (XL, maybe XXL) but we have not tried Giga-International yet because of several issues mentioned in threads here on WHT. Hope your prices don't go up too much ;)

How is the situation now with extra IP's? Are they available yet and at what price? How about US speeds? From Holland downloading your test file I can hardly get 400 kb/s, not very impressive for a 100mbit line...

How about Plesk? I can see it in the upgrade list, but it doesn't state a how many domain license is included with that. And support... other threads mentioned support is very slow, has that been improved?

Setup is a bit steep to try it out for a month as well, since there are no real reviews anywhere of your service, no 30-day-money-back either :)

Hello,

@ zymic:

this is different and depends on the current usage per server. We change it very often so that every server has a good speed.

@ JJongma:

Extra IPs are now available for 1 Euro per IP per month.
The speed will be even better than it is now in about a week due to a new 1Gbit/s-Line of Tiscali straight to our core-switch. This will approve our bandidth world-wide :-)

The usual PLESK license we use costs 14,99 Euros per month and includes 30 domain-accounts. Should you ever need more, just tell us and we will be able to upgrade it!

With regard to the price: It's quality and we know what we can offer for this price :-)

Best regards

I'm having probs buying my server on the 4th step as I'm paying by paypal it won't let me enter my paypal address as it doesn't accept special characters :S

@MMEDV,

I think you'r new line just got connected as the speed I get here has definitly improved! We are ready to order a server from you now. I would like to see a 30-day no-good money-back guarantee (since we're a startup and don't have extra cash lying around) but I do understand such things are hard to do... So I guess we'll have to start with a month-month contract. Any chance of you waving the setup fee? Furtheremore: are the prices including or excluding VAT?

Hiya All

My 2 Month review on Giga-International... I see that quite a few of you need an independent review of giga-international so here it is...


The Speed

Is fine from Ireland I can max out my connection 20mbps No probs at night but a few times during the day its slowed right down but not to often so all and all speed is quite good... From what I have been told it works pretty well in most major European places…

Been told they are changing carrier so speed will hopefully increase and even more for the US and ASIA…. They say that will allow me to have more IP addresses too…

Proper Test File on Proper Server www.coverzoom.com/test.wmv - why dont you guys post your speeds and locations try it twice...

The Server = Dedicated Server XL:

Yea it works what more can I ask for… Its as they say on there site even though I was curious that shouldn’t HT processor show as dual processor on Fedora… Can anyone shine light on this point…

They don’t tell you this part before you order but it takes 7 days for setup…

Support and Billing

Is absolute poo very poor... They would be much better charging an extra 10 euro a box and hiring proper support staff and setting up a real billing and ticketing system.

There is no billing at all they dont request payment or invoice you but expect you to pay them and they can’t seem to understand why this is can cause a problem…

Desperate response time to support requests even though mine had been minor three times I needed them about a payment issue and it took 10 hours to reply and then 6 hours to reply to my reply and the third time they still haven’t replied 2 days later so I am pretty sure that’s been binned…

I even resulted to sending a pm to this MMEDV (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/member.php?u=78111) dude with no reply so I suggest you understand that rapid response and accountability is something that giga-international haven’t got right yet…

So to sum it all up I was thinking about moving all my servers across to these guys but have had second thoughts after there support and billing issues…

I feel as if you need a server that isn’t very important then they are fine to go with but if its important or critical give them some more time to workout there support and billing issues before giving them serious consideration… The moral is you get what you pay for and these dudes are cheap…

Hope this helped…

Hello @ all,

Sorry for any waiting-time during these days, we're very busy making everything ready for our CARRIER-CHANGE during the next 48 hours. Everything will be just fine, so don't be mad :-)

@ sugar888:

please just enter any paypal-address which doesn't exist and which you like to proceed with the order. Then send us an email in which you tell us the RIGHT paypal-address and everything will be good.

@ JJongma:

all prices include any taxes, so FINAL prices for everyone :-)
Please understand that I can't give any more discounts at the moment.

@ lamans:

Thanks for your report, we are happy that you like our server in most points.
With regard to the criticsm about the billing-system:
I'm pretty content that this is the main-point for you because it IS definetly something we can improve. We will work on this and if there's anything we can do for you, don't hesitate to write an email to support@giga-international.com !

Thank you!

The new carrier-line SHOULD be online in 1 day! :-)

best regards

Yea no probs man....

Let me tell you get your billing and your support sorted and you will be a very competitive host that will be hard to beat for a centralised european host.

Thanks

So far I'm fairly happy with my server, they went out of their way to get some stuff sorted for me so I can't complain in that respect. I'll be very eager to know how the upgrade will benefit us users.. at the moment the connection does drop quite a bit (I've been running ping plots from a couple of locations) and the speed isn't excessive. I'm sure the new connection will help (/me crosses fingers)

lamans:

To get 2 CPUs (for HT) showing up in

cat /proc/cpuinfo

You need to ensure you're running an SMP aware kernel.

actually the connection goes up and down more times than a cheap hooker in happy hour.. well ok, not that bad, but it has been dropping an awful lot today, lets hope this is just IP range change pre-blues! :D

Well, I'm on the new IP range now and I must say, it's FAR better :)

GOOD WORK GUYS!

The Speed

Is fine from Ireland I can max out my connection 20mbps No probs at night but a few times during the day its slowed right down but not to often so all and all speed is quite good... From what I have been told it works pretty well in most major European places…

Been told they are changing carrier so speed will hopefully increase and even more for the US and ASIA…. They say that will allow me to have more IP addresses too…

Proper Test File on Proper Server www.coverzoom.com/test.wmv (http://www.coverzoom.com/test.wmv) - why dont you guys post your speeds and locations try it twice...



--11:08:01-- http://www.coverzoom.com/test.wmv
(try: 4) => `test.wmv'
Connecting to www.coverzoom.com[217.172.44.137]:80... failed: No route to host.
Retrying.

--11:08:01-- http://www.coverzoom.com/test.wmv
(try: 4) => `test.wmv'
Connecting to www.coverzoom.com (http://www.coverzoom.com)[217.172.44.137]:80... failed: No route to host.
Retrying.

Hiya...

They were changing over my ip address and i forgot to update the dns of that site... Try again now...

Transfers to US are about 50K/s right now with the two test files. What happens when anyone in that network tries fetching data FROM the US? Is the bandwidth both ways equally narrow? I am asking because I want to use it for a proxy and most of the web sites visitied by proxy users I assume are based in the US or at least a great part are.

So is bandwidth from the US-->EU the same as the bandwidth from EU-->US on your current network? What is the reason for this slowness...where exactly is this transatlantic bottleneck coming from?

Also I am curious how is traffic between your network and India/Asia?

Hiya...

I got a guy in NY and he says he can pull 400-550k... What part of the states you getting 50kbs from...

When i was loooking for a server i had very slow test experiances with california servers.. But the lowest was about 80-100k...

Well, from Portugal i could get the following (Im using one 100Mbit line):

Connecting to www.coverzoom.com|193.164.131.57|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 95.701.719 (91M) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 95.701.719 375.14K/s ETA 00:00

13:07:46 (944.51 KB/s) - `test.wmv' saved [95701719/95701719]

Also, are there any news on new IP's. I would like to get one of your servers but i need at least 8 IP's

Hi,

additional IPs are no problem.
Just order it via mail for 1 Euro per IP per month.

Best regards

Hiya...

I got a guy in NY and he says he can pull 400-550k... What part of the states you getting 50kbs from...

When i was loooking for a server i had very slow test experiances with california servers.. But the lowest was about 80-100k...
Don't remember but I just did a simultaneous pull from my comcast.net home box, a server at LT and a server at FDC and I get this:

Comcast 107.59 K/s

LT 113.93 K/s

FDC 63.83 K/s

Now FDC is in Chicago and LT is in Dallas. I did a "wget http://www.giga-hosting.biz/30mb-file.rar" for the test.

Yup... I've also put up both files downloading and the speed doesnt go more than 45K... very strange...

Here are the results for the 100 MB test.wmv file that a user placed:

Comcast/Chicago 38.73 KB/s

LT/Dallas 41.19 KB/s

FDC/Chicago 28.01 KB/s

Hiya...

Thanks for the speed reports... could you guys due wget screen dumps i am very interested in this as i have no connection with giga was just putting a test file up to help everyone... Anyway thats some really poor speed from them datacentres... I am in ireland and can pull very good speed and that was my deciding factor when i rented a giga server...

Also note that the server is the 3.0Ghz, 2GB, 250GB server but it currently has a unique daily hit rate of about 5000-8000k combined...

Heres one from a London Datacentre

Connecting to www.coverzoom.com|193.164.131.57|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 95,701,719 (91M) [text/plain]

100%[============================================================================>] 95,701,719 1.26M/s ETA 00:00q

21:00:55 (703.17 KB/s) - `test.wmv.2' saved [95701719/95701719]

Just tried from the university 100MBit pipe in italy. DL speed o test.wmv fixed at 350Kb/sec.

Hi,

once again:
there are currently several hundreds of mbit/s unused :-)
So there should be no problem in any way with regard to the bandwidth.

Some servers use 20-30 mbit/s all the time, for example, without a problem.

Best regards