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03-04-2001, 07:56 PM
As racklocations demise seems to be getting closer could some other hosts suggest a dedicated server plan I might move to. Feel free to suggest plans which don't match my requirments as other people reading this will probably find it usefull. This may well be interesting to many hosts, they can hear what a potential cutomer is looking for on their website. I don't mind URL's if you site lists such a plan.
1) You need to have better than average chance of still being in business and not being overloaded by too many customers by this time next month.
2) In USA with a fast connection to US and europe, I am not impressed with X trillion bits/sec it just need to be fast when I try it at random times, and no I don't test it just from my personal location.
3) RedHat 7.0 but I DO NOT want any control pannels or things that are supposed to make setup easy. I want to have FULL control (root access) even if it means I break things from time to time. If it saves money I don't mind installing updates myself.
4) For me low spec will be fine as I don't want to host many sites. I mainly want to try out experimental software (that I write) on it, but I need a server that will be on most if not all of the time, and has an internet connection of course. So that translates to a minimum of 500MHz 128MB IDE10GB, of course I don't mind higher but will not be happy paying more for it :D I am realistic though so just make sensible suggestions.
5) I would expect urgent support requests to be acted upon quickly, like a re-boot but I don't mind normal tec support taking hours or even a day as nothing I am running is critical.
6) Have a transfer/bandwidth measurement method that I can understand! Explaining something when you know it is easy but to explain it so that other people that have never heard of it is hard. Transfer<=$4/GB, Also IP's at sensible prices, that means less than $1 per IP
7) I don't want a long list of things I am not allowed to run or do on my server. I even found 1 site that said I couldn't run irc on a dedicated server from them! As long as it is legal and anyone not interested doesn't need to get data from it, it should be fine.
Numbers were irrelivent to priority and I have probably missed something important. This was going to be really short when I started.
How much should I expect to spend on such a server? (I was on the $99 deal from racklocation, I was happy until I heard pogolinux wanted nothing to do with them and all emails get no response)
I am posting here as all the indexing sites seem to list ***** as in the top 25 which makes me loose faith in them being very fair.
Hosts feel free to email me or post here, I posted here so you can reply without breaking any rules :agree:
1) You need to have better than average chance of still being in business and not being overloaded by too many customers by this time next month.
2) In USA with a fast connection to US and europe, I am not impressed with X trillion bits/sec it just need to be fast when I try it at random times, and no I don't test it just from my personal location.
3) RedHat 7.0 but I DO NOT want any control pannels or things that are supposed to make setup easy. I want to have FULL control (root access) even if it means I break things from time to time. If it saves money I don't mind installing updates myself.
4) For me low spec will be fine as I don't want to host many sites. I mainly want to try out experimental software (that I write) on it, but I need a server that will be on most if not all of the time, and has an internet connection of course. So that translates to a minimum of 500MHz 128MB IDE10GB, of course I don't mind higher but will not be happy paying more for it :D I am realistic though so just make sensible suggestions.
5) I would expect urgent support requests to be acted upon quickly, like a re-boot but I don't mind normal tec support taking hours or even a day as nothing I am running is critical.
6) Have a transfer/bandwidth measurement method that I can understand! Explaining something when you know it is easy but to explain it so that other people that have never heard of it is hard. Transfer<=$4/GB, Also IP's at sensible prices, that means less than $1 per IP
7) I don't want a long list of things I am not allowed to run or do on my server. I even found 1 site that said I couldn't run irc on a dedicated server from them! As long as it is legal and anyone not interested doesn't need to get data from it, it should be fine.
Numbers were irrelivent to priority and I have probably missed something important. This was going to be really short when I started.
How much should I expect to spend on such a server? (I was on the $99 deal from racklocation, I was happy until I heard pogolinux wanted nothing to do with them and all emails get no response)
I am posting here as all the indexing sites seem to list ***** as in the top 25 which makes me loose faith in them being very fair.
Hosts feel free to email me or post here, I posted here so you can reply without breaking any rules :agree: