Recently I have been faced with a challenging decision.

namely, purchase a server from eservers.biz or one that is located at layerone.

They are both essentially the same price, but the layerone server is a better overall server, but has less bandwidth (Cogent only)

Or I could go eservers.biz. more transfer, less powerful server but non cogent.

help...

Are you limited to only those 2?

At the moment the only independent offer I am considering is at layerone, and eservers.biz is a host I am interested in buying from.

There are lots of good hosts there:

webreseller.net (Yipes, ...)
prioritycolocations (Cognet)
serveroutsource.net
saburovo.com (Rackshack servers with better support)
fastservers.net

and many others

You are not limmited to those. By the way DV2 does not have servers available now.

Mac

I am aware that there is a wide variety of companies offering dedicated servers. I have looked at most all of them, and have narrowed my selection down to DV2 and LayerOne.

Unless someone comes up with a better offer than I have recieved from either one of the above then then that is what I am limited.

eservers.biz will have servers some time within the next week

You really cannot compare DV2 to LayerOne. They are completely different as LayerOne does not provide bandwidth. They are mainly a Telco cross connect company with connected datacenter floor space. DV2 has connectivity.

I'll rephrase my question.

In your opinion would a more powerful server with less bandwidth (albeit cogent) be more desireable or less desireable than a not as powerful server with 100GB more bandwidth located at DV2?
thanks

That's a good one. If the "LayerOne" solutions is only Cogent, I would probably go with DV2?? Both not great choices, but good luck!

Originally posted by RackMy.com
Both not great choices

MyRack

Have you tried Layerone or DV2/eServers ?
I can vouch for both as i use them and until you've tried them, please refrain from unprofessional speculation.....

Have a nice evening....
Shazad

Maybe he's referring to the fact the layerone was cogent only, which is bad IMHO. Out of the two I'd say dv2 might be better because they have 2 internet connections( IMHO ) which gives you some redundancy.

If you have a look he has clearly said "Both not great choices" ...
He was not referring to Layerone alone; but both of us... :eek:

Yeah I noticed but I don't know why. A lot of hosts seem to like DV2. From my research alot of bw goes through cogent/netrail and there are some slow ping times but I hope this will be corrected when DV2 adds another provider.

Dv2 then LOL.

Anyreason to take a singlehomed cogent connection at layerone than multihomed dv2?

I guess if you dont mind waiting forever for a DV2 server then choose them :rolleyes:

Sailor replied saying that their order system is playing up - they have servers in stock apparently.

i have a server a both. no downtime on either, and the ping speeds are roughly the same.

tho i don't have cogent connections. (thank god)

Have you tried Layerone or DV2/eServers ? I am expressing my opinion from what I have heard from customers and what has been read on this board. BTW, yes I have tried LayerOne before.

i've got an eservers.biz server at dv2 - and I simply love it. Both VERY quality companys!

Originally posted by RackMy.com
I am expressing my opinion from what I have heard from customers and what has been read on this board. BTW, yes I have tried LayerOne before.

Where have you seen post that are negitive to DV2? I have seen nothing but positive post for DV2.

The only negative ones about DV2 are ones about it taking a long time to get a server setup.

I have 2 servers with eservers - 1st one was setup the same day, 2nd one was setup in a week or two because they were waiting for the dual proccies to come in.

Once I got them, I love them!

James

dv2/eservers.biz :D

No problems to report with either, they've been great :D
Service is simply wonderfull - worth the wait for quality service IMHO :D