I heard Rackforce.com has a 10Mb/s line at $275 per month, or a 1.5 Mb/s line at no extra cost.

;)

I think this should be in the advertising forums. Also it's a bit strange that this was the first thing you decided to post. :confused:

With rackforce coming on the forums to defend themselves in old threads, I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of their staff.

AND ONLY ONE POST!
cough
sounds like either rackforce is getting people to come here and post this
or its rackforce themselves

1 post... egh :rolleyes:


/gets on phone and calls Chicken :stickout

Would that be 1-866-CHICKEN ?

No, 1-877-CHICKEN :stickout

it does look like a good deal though, i just went to their website

still
its wrong to advertise like this

he could of atleast did a better job LOL

I did a traceroute and noticed it went through Shawcable...are they hosting servers on a cable line??

root@cervix [/]# traceroute rackforce.com
traceroute to rackforce.com (192.197.107.67), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 border1.chg
2 ge-3-3.a00.chcgil07.us.ra.verio.net (128.242.186.141) 5.263 ms 0.993 ms 0.974 ms
3 ge-7-0-0.r00.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.25.158) 1.421 ms 1.011 ms 0.907 ms
4 p16-7-0-0.r02.chcgil01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.101) 1.109 ms 1.844 ms 1.084 ms
5 ge-1-1.a09.chcgil01.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.27.5) 1.119 ms 1.056 ms 1.468 ms
6 ge-3-1.a09.chcgil01.us.ce.verio.net (129.250.223.54) 1.209 ms 1.204 ms 1.080 ms
7 rc1so-pos13-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.85) 36.554 ms 38.973 ms 37.354 ms
8 rc1wh-pos14-0.vc.shawcable.net (66.163.76.10) 51.544 ms 49.384 ms 51.205 ms
9 rd2ht-atm1-0-1.ok.shawcable.net (66.163.76.230) 58.453 ms 58.400 ms 58.341 ms
10 ra1ht-ge4-1.ok.shawcable.net (66.163.72.142) 59.136 ms 61.608 ms 68.354 ms
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
etc
etc

Sorry to everyone on this thread, instead of replying on a different thread, I made my own. I have absolutely no affiliation with rackforce, nor do I host with them.

I just signed up with this forum its pretty cool.

oops nm

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Hello,
I also think Rackforce is a cool service provider. Please don't mistaken me for being a staff of Rackforce... :) Out of curiousity, I mentioned this here. I have also a good experience of Rackforce.

Thanks

rackforce is awesome and no im not one of their staff the reason it probly comes up as cable as it is probly you who has the cable lol just my 2 cents...

What are they like? You've had experience Lighty?

the kook :eek:

Shaw Cable (www.shaw.ca) does quite a bit more than offer cable modems -- they also own a backbone as BigPipeInc (www.bigpipeinc.com). Your packets are indeed going through Shaw's backbone network, but I'd suspect not through a cable modem. :)

lol never thought about this but maybe its a cable physicaly ;-) lol jk ya ya im funny aren't i?

Keep you day job.. Lol jk :D

Thanks for your help everyone, looks like an awesome provider.

the kook:eek:

Hostkookster, lighty... what sites do you guys own???

also... about rackforce's pricing... i find it VERY hard to believe... but i would actually sign up just to see if they would honor the deal...

why? because this ISP is almost local to me... (i could drive there if i wanted...)... they are in canada... in canada, bandwidth costs more than... well, lets say bill gates would have a hard time paying his bill (he'd probably find it more cost effective to buy the friggin' carrier)... its pathetically expensive... consumer services, dirt cheap... cheaper than US... but business services... painfully expensive... now... add to that the fact that shaw cable owns a service called bigpipeinc, their commercial internet division... bigpipeinc charges over $1000/Mbps on their bandwidth, i know that for a fact... i am amazed at how rackforce can offer offer this same bandwidth at $27.50/Mbps... i could understand their deal if it were cogent... or even oversold verio/etc/etc/etc... but... shaw... hmm...

also... how can they offer 10mbps @ $275 when their 100Mbps is billed at $3/GB with a minimum of 100GB... ???

just my opinion

their site is messed... i tried to order and it didn't work!
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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /order.cgi on this server.


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Apache/1.3.22 Server at rackforce.com Port 443

hey netdude,

I don't currently own a site but i used to do web design out of my basement for aquaintances. Got tired of dealing with people who didn't know what they wanted. And then when I gave them something they hated it. REALLY SUCKED!! :angry: but now i am looking into dedicated servers for webhosting, looks easier, less hassle, residual income. :)

Man all good questions?? I can tell you I got no idea?? :confused: never thought of that. Are some hosting companies that bad? Educate me please. Very interested. I did notice a 30 day money back guarantee. Thats a plus. I really don't need to get ripped off. You know vey loooowwww budget!! I got one shot to do this and I better get it right. Where are they located exactly? I live in Canada too, Edmonton to be exact.

Thanks,

Interesting...


I sent them an email... See if they reply.

I asked them all those questions you asked just worded it better...:cool:

should be interesting.

http://www.rackforce.com/data_center.htm

another thing... u know what bloody pisses me off more than anything else??!?!?!?!?! companies that decide to go brand themselves as tier-1 (without backing it up)!!!!! explain to me how a datacenter with feeds from a tier-2 network and a tier-3 network can become tier-1...????? and no, tier-3 minus tier-2 does not equal tier-1... lol

and what they do after that? go and say they have 25 years of telecom experience... !! (http://www.rackforce.com/management_team.htm) it took me less than a year to figure out what tier-1 is... a guy has to be a true moron to not figure it out in 25...

and then add to that the fact that most of the links on their don't even work... lol
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i mean... there are actually very few true tier-1 datacenters in the US/world... and the ones that are... they spent millions (if not billions) to get to that stage... i mean... even any internap datacenter is NOT tier-1... and yet they are still a premium provider above almost all the other backbone providers out there that they get connectivity from, in terms of overall bandwidth quality... so why should some dinky host that decides to start up a business in the middle of nowhere (okanagan is actually in the middle of nowhere... farms n thats about it... seriously... i live in the city, they are in the rural areas) get that right??? makes it unfair to all the legit ones out there that try and compete...

Calm yourself :P

Anyhow someone just could give them a ring . 1-800-941-1921
But to be honest it just looks like they got a cogent line and overselling that most people.... Similar deals to FDC with the unmetered bandwidth on there 99$ servers. Mind you on colo deals they seem to be charging quite high so I dun know mabe someone should ring sales get a quote.

how do you come up with them having a cogent line being on the west coast of canada??? i already said they are using shaw bandwidth... bigpipeinc bandwidth... where'd cogent come from?

doesn't matter, they took off those offers!

?? The site seems fine to me. ??

Looks like they changed it too.

Originally posted by netdude
and no, tier-3 minus tier-2 does not equal tier-1... lol


What??? Darn... *goes to change his web page*

I really liked that one.

Damn, netdude

What are you a disgrunteld employee??? lol

Originally posted by Hostkookster
Damn, netdude

What are you a disgrunteld employee??? lol

No he just *REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY* hates Cogent (or anything that isn't Exodus/Internap in this case.) :)

Shaw Cable (www.shaw.ca) does quite a bit more than offer cable modems -- they also own a backbone as BigPipeInc (www.bigpipeinc.com). Your packets are indeed going through Shaw's backbone network, but I'd suspect not through a cable modem.

I think we all new that, but I wouldn't say that's Teir-1. Then throw in other claims.

ooohhhh, thanks for the heads up mushrew.

Checkin out www.bigpipeinc.com, where does it say they are a Tier 3 or Tier 2 network??

I read they supply Tier 1 providers??

Tier 1 is really a loose term.:dunce:



user "Abaddon" signed with them. he's posting the results on this thread

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64604&highlight=rackforce

*nod* mushrew... well... i like any bandwidth thats premium... which are essentially exodus and internap... lol

although I am totally biased because i plan to be launching my hosting company not too long from now (just finishing off first round financing for $500k), and that uses exodus+internap bandwidth only (gonna sell at almost cogent prices i think)... i don't post lies about other carriers... if i post my opinion, i say its my opinion... and usually provide some sort of solid evidence to back it up... heh... :)

Almost cogent prices sounds good :D

Originally posted by netdude

although I am totally biased because i plan to be launching my hosting company not too long from now.

Can you estimate on price? I'm interested!! :spiny:

You located in Canada as well i hope.

Originally posted by jayjay


I think we all new that, but I wouldn't say that's Teir-1. Then throw in other claims.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they were. I should have clarified -- I was responding to mushrew's post:


I did a traceroute and noticed it went through Shawcable...are they hosting servers on a cable line??