I have been reading alot of posts about hostmania. I was curious what is the deal with them. Are they a good company or not. I just looked at their site and I was suprised that they are only a few miles from me.

I am just curious if anyone has any opinions about this deal they are offering

Cogent Promo (Celeron 1 ghz, 512 Mb Memory, 40 GB HDD and 3 mb/s capped Cogent connection ($75/mo and $75 setup)

Basically we are a small design company that is currently using reseller shared hosting at *****, and we really want to get away from them. But we dont want to spend more than 99 a month with a low setup, high bandwidth and included ensim.

And what exactly is 3mb/s capped? what does that average out to.

thanks
Mark

the deal sounds awesome, but i'd wait it out until everyone gets their boxes before signing up.

People often consider 1mb/s as being equal to 320 gig of transfer, if used at maximum capacity. So 3mb/s is around 900gig of transfer, again at maximum capacity.

But that is not be burstable, so if your site is very busy, (very very busy ;) ), pages may not be served correctly during your peak times.

But don't worry about it. If you still fit in a reseller package, you're probably a very long way from reaching 3mb/s.

If it suits your needs, I'd say go for it. But as lotuslnd said, there is already a bunch of us who are waiting for servers from hostmania/eservers (they seem to be partners in this) so you'll have to get in line. I hope you're in no hurry.