hi, i'm looking in to singing up for edge host.. is anyone here signed up with them..

can you tell me how you like their service, hardware, network and anything else you have to say about them


thanks

Look for the other posts on the subject, on this very forum page. Theres several on the first couple of pages.

Or do a search on 'edge-host' . I am sure something will pop up :)

NO offence, but isn't edge-host.com run by a 14yr old? :eek:

I think he's 17 or so

Originally posted by clocker1996
I think he's 17 or so
Somewhere in Timmmmaaaaaaayyyyy's famous thread (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69386) :D he says he's 14 and not afraid to admit it. I could of sworn that's what I read. 14 is way too young to be running a hosting business, IMO.

Wow, those kids got to be rich with those servers running around.

hehe
not necessarily

Originally posted by Aussie Bob

Somewhere in Timmmmaaaaaaayyyyy's famous thread (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69386) :D he says he's 14 and not afraid to admit it. I could of sworn that's what I read. 14 is way too young to be running a hosting business, IMO.

if thats true, i would scratch them off my list

It's just, i can't really trust a "company" ran by a 14 year old
=(

Not to get too personal about this, but the concept of a person's age determining how capable they are is a ludicrous concept.

It's almost as fruitful as determining how well you can code based on the university education they have.

So far I've heard and experienced nothing but good things about Edge-host.

If you bash with motive rather than fact you lose credibility. I think i read like 2 other posts by one of you guys in another thread bashing edge-host without a real reason.

AussieBob, I searched that entire thread and the entire forums and the age of the owner of Edge-Host/Graphical Edge Media, Kelsey Kennedy, is nowhere to be found. Are you sure you're not mistaking him for someone else?

I have a box with them and they've been nothing but professional so even if he truly is 17 or so, I wouldn't give a damn. They have a good thing going and I haven't heard a really negative comment on them just yet.

Sorry just thought I'd drop my two cents into AussieBob's hands :D

No,

I am not the owner of Edge-Host. I am just a sales rep for the company. Edge-Host is owned my 'GraphicalEdge' ("www.graphicaledge.com"). Kelsey is much older than I am.

Hope that claify's some things for you.

if he can provide a good serive why not use them

I have a server with him
It has been great so far
Having trobule with my nameservers but that could be the registries fault
I have his 1.6 g machine with 1 gig ram
Had 160,000 visits a couple of days ago and it pushed it to its max. server was at 90% and greater all day
They r easy people to get on with
Edge host also has a forum

Originally posted by registered

Having trobule with my nameservers but that could be the

I had the same problem, but it eventually resolved itself. The only problem I really had was how long it took to get the server up and running after payment was received. (a couple days) So far so good other than that.

Originally posted by Decius
Not to get too personal about this, but the concept of a person's age determining how capable they are is a ludicrous concept.


Hmmmm..... I for one would not deal with a company that has kids running around playing sales agents or tech support.

You wouldn't know how old anyone was on the net if they didn't tell you. They aren't obligated to tell you. Does anyone know how old Headsurfer is? For all you know Rackshack is owned by a 12 year old. (for example)

Judge by service and reports rather than anything else.

the elf,

Why wouldn't you deal with a company that had somebody of a younger age getting clients… not running the company? If they know what they are talking about, the answers, and can handle them selves appropriately why not?


Besides, its another person to provide quicker support.


Decius, I agree with you. Honestly... if there were two companies... One had great support with young people, or one had crappy support with older people... which would you choose?

Originally posted by Decius
You wouldn't know how old anyone was on the net if they didn't tell you. They aren't obligated to tell you. Does anyone know how old Headsurfer is? For all you know Rackshack is owned by a 12 year old. (for example)

Judge by service and reports rather than anything else.

If you look deeper into the forums here, you'll see that all the operations run by kids (i.e. owned) failed or people got scammed.

Now, I'm not going to put my business on the line when some 15 year old goes "yeah sure, no problem, we can do that" then have it back fire. As to support, a 15 year old kid does not know as much nor have the same level experience as a person 25 or 40 years of age.

Also, in your example you forgot a few things. What if the 12 year old need a little more cash flow, how would he get it?? Go see a bank?? haha <kicks kid in the ass, good bye>. How would the 12 year old enter contracts? Would you trust a 12 year old with your credit card numbers?? There is more to it then just "service & reports".

The hosts only take on kids so they get the free advertising when the kid runs around posting in forums and/or on IRC.

When I call support, I want to make sure the person knows what there doing not "oh, I have a linux box I host and played host for months before balbalh hosting took me on".

If you want to deal with a company run by kids, fine. I just won't.

Originally posted by phpcoder
the elf,

Why wouldn't you deal with a company that had somebody of a younger age getting clients… not running the company? If they know what they are talking about, the answers, and can handle them selves appropriately why not?


Besides, its another person to provide quicker support.


Decius, I agree with you. Honestly... if there were two companies... One had great support with young people, or one had crappy support with older people... which would you choose?

Hmmm.... Why not? Well.. for starters, your only 15 (or so). That's why! Why would I trust my company (my house & car) with a 15 year old?? When I call the TELCO, I don't get a kid. When I get my car fixed, I don't get a kid. Sure there are kids around, but they are not doing the work all alone. Also, if the host has to hire kids (which saves money), what other cost cutting ideas will the host come up with.

Your example is flawed. Your starting school soon. So If I were to send a request during school hours, I'd get the same level of service from your company as the slow company. So, company B could be slow, but I'd get my reply, and you can't even deal with the ticket until 3-4 PM. I'm sure people would pass on a company like that. :rolleyes:

Edge-Host is not run by kids, nor is the support section of the company.

If you choose not to use us as your hosting provider, thats fine. But saying that Edge-Host is run by kids is a complete lie.

All support/sales/etc emails are logged so any person can reply.

But phpcoder already stated that:

A. He is not the owner of the company, and the true owner happens to be much older.

B. He doesn't even handle support, he is a sales representative of the company.

Originally posted by phpcoder
the elf,

You might want to watch what you are saying. Edge-Host is not run by kids, nor is the support section of the company.

If you choose not to use us as your hosting provider, thats fine. But saying that Edge-Host is run by kids is a complete lie.

All support/sales/etc emails are logged so any person can reply.

You should learn how to read a little better, your example never had "Edge-Host" in it, and my reply was in a generic state i.e. any host. Another reason why I would never use a company that has kids working for them!

At what point is one no longer considered a kid? is there a certain age at which you start trusting someone.

Believe me, there are some pretty irresponsible adults out there.

Originally posted by WoodShedd
At what point is one no longer considered a kid? is there a certain age at which you start trusting someone.

Believe me, there are some pretty irresponsible adults out there.

The day that person is out of school (i.e. right out of school and ready to take the world on). I would say 20-25 (after some post sec school).

That's not the point "pretty irresponsible adults out there", the point is that kids should not be in the front line because the company will be labeled as having kids working for them, as this thread pointed out by others and myself.

P.S.

Why don't you put your "Edge-Host" sig on here like you do on other forums? :D

I have to agree with the elf here..

I would feel much more comfortable with an adult, or atleast somebody who is 18+

Not a 14 year old

Not saying anyone here is 14, just saying..

edit: by the way php coder you seem to leave out words when you type. i hope you don't do that when you are speaking to a client :\

Originally posted by Decius
Not to get too personal about this, but the concept of a person's age determining how capable they are is a ludicrous concept.
Nope. It's ludacrous to lease servers from a 14 yr old. That goes plain obvious and common sense.
If you bash with motive rather than fact you lose credibility. I think i read like 2 other posts by one of you guys in another thread bashing edge-host without a real reason.
You're confusing "discussion" with "bashing". NO bashing going on here. phpcoder has said that he works for edge-host.com -
I am not the owner of Edge-Host. I am just a sales rep for the company. Edge-Host is owned my 'GraphicalEdge' ("www.graphicaledge.com"). Kelsey much older than I am.
Thanks for clearing that up phpcoder. At times I envy the youth. :)

Originally posted by the elf

Why don't you put your "Edge-Host" sig on here like you do on other forums? :D

Which other forums? I may have displayed it at FWS at one point but not recently.


I was "on staff" as a contet writer/sales person. I have put that on hold for now as I am too busy with other things. Additionally, I don't represent edge-host at these forums, so I see no reason to have it in my signature.

Originally posted by beashnet
AussieBob, I searched that entire thread and the entire forums and the age of the owner of Edge-Host/Graphical Edge Media, Kelsey Kennedy, is nowhere to be found. Are you sure you're not mistaking him for someone else?

I have a box with them and they've been nothing but professional so even if he truly is 17 or so, I wouldn't give a damn. They have a good thing going and I haven't heard a really negative comment on them just yet.

Sorry just thought I'd drop my two cents into AussieBob's hands :D
It's halfway down here (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69386&perpage=15&pagenumber=15) in Timmmmaaaaaayyyyyy's famous thread. :D

Aussie,

Just curious.... why did you quote a person that looked for the owner's (Kelsey's) age, but put a link to where I posted?

Originally posted by phpcoder
Aussie,

Just curious.... why did you quote a person that looked for the owner's (Kelsey's) age, but put a link to where I posted?
I originally made the comment that the owner of edge-host.com was 14, based on the following conversation [where you confirmed your age] with you and TimPD -
TimPD said -
Well Mr PHPCODER from talking with you before you said you was if I'm not mistaken 14-15 ? Something like that. Yea don't deny it. I do remember when talking to you back sometime ago about a job. Quit trying to cover this up
phpcoder said -
Yes I am. I let people know that... I don't cover up my age. They either work with me or they don't.
This has nothing to do with Kelsey's age. I was talking about you because I thought you owned edge-host.com. I was a little surprised to see that you said you were 14-15 in that thread with TimPD. :)

Thank you Alec, I was just about to point that out.

Getting bleary eyes with old age, Bob? :D

I'm only in my twenties but I could have sworn I asked for a post referring to the owners age, who you are bashing/badmouthing, yet you don't even know his nickname and are attacking a company based on the age of one of the sales staff. Not even a tech, but a sales person.

:D

Originally posted by beashnet
Thank you Alec, I was just about to point that out.

Getting bleary eyes with old age, Bob? :D

I'm only in my twenties but I could have sworn I asked for a post referring to the owners age, who you are bashing/badmouthing, yet you don't even know his nickname and are attacking a company based on the age of one of the sales staff. Not even a tech, but a sales person.

:D
I don't know where all this "bashing/badmouthing" is. This is discussion. If folks come here and open up their businesses to the community, then they we can discuss certian aspects of the business. I saw phpcoder's sig file with edge-host.com. I thought he owned it. I didn't realise that he worked there. I thought it was strange when he admitted to TimPD that he was 14-15 and "I let people know that... I don't cover up my age".

Read my post above to clarify any confusion you might have. :)

You make some good points, sure.

But this was in fact a thread where a person wanted feedback on a certain hosting company, one that's not opening its business to the community in this thread and is in fact not that new.

Badmouthing/bashing might have been a poor choice of words, but the issue you brought up, while related to the company, was not even correct nor appropriate feedback, just speculation. And after you had posted, someone else started saying "I think he's 17", etcetera, which most likely made people believe that his being young was a fact when you in actuality were discussing a sales person of that company and not the owner.

So while it might not have been outright bashing of any kind, it was quite inappropriate to post it to this very thread IMHO.

Nevertheless, although I'm just a client of theirs, I believe it was good for them to have this issue cleared or I'm certain it'd have been brought up in the future as well.

Ah well. I'm going to go get my massage now :D

Originally posted by beashnet
Ah well. I'm going to go get my massage now :D
I'm going to get my cup of tea now. :D

WoodShedd
I agree with all you have said 100%
Wish I knew how you got the nameserver issue fixed
Took me about a week to recieve my first visitors
Im used to virtual where I recieve them on the next day

Originally posted by registered
WoodShedd
I agree with all you have said 100%
Wish I knew how you got the nameserver issue fixed
Took me about a week to recieve my first visitors
Im used to virtual where I recieve them on the next day


I had set them up wrong in Plesk, and It took me about two days to realize it. After I fixed it, they took about 3 days to work.

Someone in the tech/security problems forum may be able to help you.

Hey guys, maybe I'm a bit late, just thought I'd butt in.

I've run an online-magazine site before, as well as a hosting company.. I've even worked under a kid(odd). The only thing I can say is, working under that 1 kid gave me a lot of experience. Kids are involved in the computer age younger and younger and learn more then your high paid tech. I think if you listen to what they have to say, you can appreciate what they have to offer if you give them a chance to present themselves. Oh well, don't mind me, just my two cents, if they can prove to be efficient and helpful, give it a go.

wow this post got to be a big issue

1) younger people absorb and specialize much quicker than adults because they have no pre-conceptions of how a certain technology "may" run.

2) However, adults do have more experience and can foresee potential difficulties in the future a bit better.

This being said, a comparison in "ability" is not achievable; a hosting company run by younger people is potentially going to be a genius operation since they will acquire and optimize their knowledge faster than adults will.

Adults will run a more sound operation, but the inneficiencies they suffer due to pre-conceptions will most likely hurt them in the long run; a stagnant company is a dead company.

My only concern with younger people would be their lack of technical knowdlege...which is not a relevant concern since software changes too fast; both adults and younger people would be at the same dissadvantage, and younger people would adapt quicker.

And what the hell are we talking about guys? All the big shots are crooks. There isn't one American corporation out there that provides more service than is absolutely necessary. It's all about maximizing profit...and in that scenario the customer always loses.

Young people are interested in what they do, and the money is a concurrent goal. Their products will always be superior, because they are driven by interest rather than dollar signs. They are not experienced enough to run a cut throat business and are likely to provide you with more service than is necessary, SOLELY because they don't know any better.

You fear innadequacy and lack of professionalism and I fear profit maximization. Which category of individual will screw you first?

Originally posted by Decius
1) younger people absorb and specialize much quicker than adults because they have no pre-conceptions of how a certain technology "may" run.

2) However, adults do have more experience and can foresee potential difficulties in the future a bit better.

This being said, a comparison in "ability" is not achievable; a hosting company run by younger people is potentially going to be a genius operation since they will acquire and optimize their knowledge faster than adults will.

Adults will run a more sound operation, but the inneficiencies they suffer due to pre-conceptions will most likely hurt them in the long run; a stagnant company is a dead company.

My only concern with younger people would be their lack of technical knowdlege...which is not a relevant concern since software changes too fast; both adults and younger people would be at the same dissadvantage, and younger people would adapt quicker.

And what the hell are we talking about guys? All the big shots are crooks. There isn't one American corporation out there that provides more service than is absolutely necessary. It's all about maximizing profit...and in that scenario the customer always loses.

Young people are interested in what they do, and the money is a concurrent goal. Their products will always be superior, because they are driven by interest rather than dollar signs. They are not experienced enough to run a cut throat business and are likely to provide you with more service than is necessary, SOLELY because they don't know any better.

You fear innadequacy and lack of professionalism and I fear profit maximization. Which category of individual will screw you first?

Right.... We're talking about kids (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 etc). I don't care what anyone says, when the kid is at school, regardless of what he/she knows, your not going to get any sales/support/admin tasks done period. So why even bother with such a company? Why should I have to wait until 6 PM to get a reply?? If the kid has to study, the reply will come around 8-9 pm, if I even get a reply at all!

The kids can't drive (the ones under 16) they can't vote, can't drink & can't even get a phone line in their own name and your going to trust them with your credit card numbers?? NO thanks!

If you want to be a sucker, by all means. Buy your Internet solutions from kids. Why stop there, buy a house too, and a car, give them your credit card numbers as well and hope you don’t get and funky charges.

Again, search this forum for operations ran by kids. The kids set rock bottom prices (sometimes below cost), have no biz plan, get into debt and close up. So, there goes your money! It's not "money is a concurrent " it's "set it cheaper, get more suckers". A lot of adults also don't figure it out.

For an example, I had a chat on FWS that reviewed the profits from selling $35/year accounts on RS servers. The owner paid $160/month for a server, and (without overselling) makes $38/month profit of the server. The $35/year package had 5 GB transfer and the owner (or whoever) came back saying were not filling the server up with $35/year accounts, however, the smallest package they sell includes 20/GB for $10/month (which is almost like selling 4 $35/year packages). Anyway, the point I made was unless that host oversold, they would never make a profit, or to make a profit (that could support a person) would need 20 servers and over 1,500 customers.

The kids pick up on this figure out it won't work and close. Leaving you in the cold and a “oh well” reply.

Personally, IMHO, I think companies with kids working for them in public should be avoided in whole. 1) Because they just use the kids & 2) because the level of (company) support is not the same as a company with adults as the kids are away at school all day long. Even if other people are around to reply to request, the kids make the company seem bigger then it is and when people need support (for sales/tech/admin etc) they don't get it. Now, don't get me wrong here, I myself *WOULD* allow kids to work for me, but it'd be in a NON-public manner where I observe what they are doing (just to make sure). I would not send them out to businesses and try to get them as customers nor put them on the phones as agents or let them reply to support tickets. As many companies that hire kids, the kids are not the driving force of the company, the adults are. In this example, the hosts use the kids for the *posting* ad space (the sigs).

Well not bashing here but I think the point is not so much about service or sales but about the fact that kids living at home can and do sell their hosting for cheaper prices.

They can afford to do this because they do not have a house payment, family to support etc, it is play money for them. So they can make an extra $100.00 or $200.00 a month and all is good in their world. The problems come later when they are off to college or have to get a real job then the money is not worth it any longer so the close up or sell the customers and off they go.

Now the question is, is this a good deal for the customer? Some will say yes cause it brings affordable hosting to all.

I say no because the damage that is left in their wake is bad for the hosting business over all. The problem gets compounded even more when they sell super cheap reseller plans so more kids and those that are not serious about the business get in and they sell even cheaper to make extra pocket money. It becomes a vicious circle that drags all of us down.

I do not argue that some of these kid host technically know their stuff, they do no doubt about it. What they do not know or understand or seem to care about is that some of the sites and resellers they host are peoples lively hood. The damage they do when they decide the game is no longer fun is very serious to some people and it hurts some deeper than they know or care.

It amazes me that someone would say so what if I get a dedicated server from kid if he delivers, well sure he delivers today, but what about 6 months or a year from now when you have built your entire business on his servers and he pulls out on you. If you lose your business is it still going to be worth it cause he delivered today?

I would have to agree, I suppose my initial response was based on a hybrid company with experience at the top leading younger people, which is what edge-host seems to be.

At the top of it all, you will want someone with accountability. I will agree that adults running it will lead to a more sound operation, but my overall point is you can tell the nature of a company by the services they offer, how they offer it, and how professional they seem.

Age or not, if a company retains certain characteristics, as adults, we can decipher if they are in it for the long term or not, regardless of their age.

Originally posted by the elf

Again, search this forum for operations ran by kids.

cough timpd :P
COUGH

Originally posted by Decius
...but my overall point is you can tell the nature of a company by the services they offer, how they offer it, and how professional they seem.

That’s right, during the summer months service will be great. Now that school will be staring soon (or already has) you’ll see response time drop as the kids have other full-time obligations to attend to. So what seems good now, in a few weeks will be crappy (as Monte already said). Same thing with the companies that use kids, during the summer months they all can pitch in, however, when school starts, the owner is left to support all the customers.

Rather then sit here and say “it doesn’t matter how old they are, they can still be good” put your money where your mouth is and signup with a kid ran operation. Come back in 6 months and tell us what you think! Make sure to signup in the summer, then rate them in the winter.

This thread is getting very OT, the point of it was for information about Edge-Host from its customers, not information about other or hypothetical companies, nor "Would you order a server from Edge-Host?"

I've never used Edge-Host personally, but someone I know used to, and he never had any problems.

is edge-host and mega-hosting.co.uk (http://www.mega-hosting.co.uk/) owned by the same company?

they look nearly exactly the same

LOL@ Un-Metered MYSQL Databases

Un-Metered

hah.

n00bs

Give edge-host a break, at least they haven't scammed anyone *yet* like timmah' did :D

I think both sides of this discussion are making some good points, and the other side is going out of their way to ignore them.

1) If a company is owned or run by kids (12-17), it's ridiculous to trust your business with them. They are not able to enter in legal contacts, it's less likely a teenager has years of experience in his field, and you can't expect 24/7 support from someone who goes to school every day.

2) If a company is owned and run by an experienced adult, and has a few extra tech support members on AIM and ticket support, there's nothing wrong with that. If there's a problem with service and you can get some quick answers from a teenage support guy, that's more time that the host owner can devote to fixing the problem. It's simple delegation. And age is no judge of competence or character.

yea age is'nt a very good factor too look at not saying i've done anything special but i'm 17 soon to be 18 and have had a profiting webhosting company now for 6+ months and yea its not the best way doing it and going to school but if my customers dont have a gripe then obviously there is nothing wrong with my hosting ;)

just my opinion

I just got a server from Edge-host roughly a week ago. Two days ago it crashed, we tried everything to contact them: left messages, submitted tickets, emailed. 18 HOURS passed. My users went nuts.

Finally they deigned to reboot, telling me "It's an unmanaged server. We charge for reboots." Well, OK... but not 18 hours later you don't. Moreover, it's a kernal issue... support finally told my server dude "Don't patch it, it's Ensim". Heads up.

Today.. it's down again. 8 hours so far. I have moved the one site back to the old server (which, mercifully, I hung on to, in case.) Thankfully I didn't migrate our other clients to it.

Once again, we're hunting a new host.

Originally posted by NORRITT
is edge-host and mega-hosting.co.uk (http://www.mega-hosting.co.uk/) owned by the same company?

they look nearly exactly the same

Nope :stickout

Originally posted by NiL8h8
I just got a server from Edge-host roughly a week ago. Two days ago it crashed, we tried everything to contact them: left messages, submitted tickets, emailed. 18 HOURS passed. My users went nuts.

Finally they deigned to reboot, telling me "It's an unmanaged server. We charge for reboots." Well, OK... but not 18 hours later you don't. Moreover, it's a kernal issue... support finally told my server dude "Don't patch it, it's Ensim". Heads up.

Today.. it's down again. 8 hours so far. I have moved the one site back to the old server (which, mercifully, I hung on to, in case.) Thankfully I didn't migrate our other clients to it.

Once again, we're hunting a new host.

ouch.
try staminus

Hey All, this is one low fight.

My experience with Edge-host so far:

Great.

That answers the INITIAL meaning of this post. Man... i had to register here when I saw the crap being said.

I have only been with edge-host for a short time - but it's been fine. School hours or not. I'm young - 18. I'm out of school and all that too. I have my own business.

When I was doing 1st year univ last year - ALL my time was spent on the computer - if someone e-mailed me - BAM i'd respond. I don' think being in school or not would change too many response times these days... and just to let you all know - many adults take courses too.


So... basically - as of yet I'd tell all my friends to use em. I only signed up for 3 months and at the end of that - I can continue my service of take my money else where.

And salmon..... wtf man? This guy complained when they were upgrading their billing system. The pre-scheduled downtime was only 24hrs and he starts whining that he should get a few free months because he needed the service now... blah blah. Now he does this too? Makes me think HE is an immature individual who should just relax a bit and let people who KNOW and USE the service actually respond to threads like this. You're not a superhero - don't act like one.

Best of luck to all of you in your search for hosts. I'm happy where I am at edge-host.com. Ask me in 3 months how it's going.

--Hemo :smokin:.

All i know is I support edge-host ... and in 3 months if I haven't had many problems(that i don't cause :S) I'll stay with em :D

We currently are working out the issues with the client, and I am sure that they will be happy when everything is said and done. If not, well we tried our best and Edge-Host is not the right place for them

I insulted you? You are being respectable? You sure about those two statements?

Originally posted by DJiMPaCT
Darth, I am not worried :) Just wondering what I did say to offend him, since I am not aware that I did that.



I didn't see you offend him

Edge-Host is a good company, my server is always online and their support is very professional. I would personally recommend them to anyone. My account was setup quickly and I haven't had any problems with them.

IMO they are one of the better companies I've used to date and no I don't work for them.

Hmmm well I usually just look around on here. But we recently shifted hosts to Edge and I noticed this link in their forum.

Our own short experience with Edge has been very good. Previously we had two dedicated servers with RS. We needed a better machine and the ability to purchase large chunks of bandwidth in advance.

They have been very professional when dealing with us. The server did take a few days to set up, but I expected this given the change in size of companies. Actually I was rather surprised as they help us setup the site and have dealt with any problems within a few hours.

We even have them on AIM and can get responses in seconds for part of the day. Time will tell how good their service is but so far it has been beyond our expectations.

As for being run by a 14 year old or such. Well I would be concerned if the company was owned by someone so young. Not because they are not technically competent but due to the lack of legal laibility and the instability. however, if they have some young sales people......so what!

Anyway if you have any questions regarding how it goes, feel free to give me a shout in the future.

Anyway just thought would give our experience so far. In summary a great start, very helpful, good prices and flawless inception. Uptime and long term treatment I cannot comment on yet. But looks promising.

Regards

James

Ok, I've picked through and removed the garbage from this 13 page thread (as you can see, over 8 pages of the thread were complete garbage). Those who have flamed and trolled their way to 13 pages have been banned. This is the topic and any posts other than the topic will be removed as will the user...

Originally posted by peteny
hi, i'm looking in to singing up for edge host.. is anyone here signed up with them..

can you tell me how you like their service, hardware, network and anything else you have to say about them


thanks

Edge-Host is a good company. The support isnt the best, but it's alright. Nice network and speed.

Originally posted by Chicken
Ok, I've picked through and removed the garbage from this 13 page thread (as you can see, over 8 pages of the thread were complete garbage). Those who have flamed and trolled their way to 13 pages have been banned. This is the topic and any posts other than the topic will be removed as will the user...

Your one dedicated mod.:):agree:

Thanks Chicken,

Appriciated.

good good :)

They must be Kids cant seem to keep my site up
this day was ok i guess
Date: Sat 7 Sep
Time: 1:00 - 8:00 USA Eastern Time
Server Type: Unknown

Overall Rating: Poor

Performance Summary
Event Your Server's
Average NetMechanic
Average Percentile
Host Ping 82.76 millisec 550.53 millisec 26
DNS Look Up 0.11 sec 0.35 sec 12
Connect Time 0.47 sec 0.94 sec 18
Download Time (10k file) 0.78 sec 0.85 sec 18
Timeouts 0 -
Very slow thou

Anybody happen to know why edge-host.com is down? I also just did a traceroute on the URL and it goes to Chicago (looks like it's going to FDCservers/kingcomp) (a bad place to host a critical site and I would very much like to get out of that datacenter)).

I have no idea, tried to go on to their site last night. not working now as well.

Tazzman : i wouldn't doubt that.

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Will keep you all posted. My apologies go out to anybody that has been effected by this.

Get your server back up, I might wanna order myself a dedicated from you in the next 24 hours...

Hey Tazzman, out of interest what control pannel do you use for your free hosting service? :)

Originally posted by Tazzman
Get your server back up, I might wanna order myself a dedicated from you in the next 24 hours...

I am trying as hard as I can, but RS wont reboot for me... only the owner of the box :( I understand why... but still :(

Ask the owner to tell rackshack to give you permission to restart the box (when he gets online) :)

No duh ;) :stickout

This will be fixed shortly.

Hurt my feelings :bawling:

Though this has nothing to do with this thread, I currently have 2 servers running on CPanel/WHM, but one of these is at FDCservers and this one will be cancelled as soon as I order a replacement (which will probably run Plesk 5). The other CPanel server I have is with serverhost in Globalcompass. Been very happy with that server, but Serverhost has no more '0 setup offers', which is a shame and thus pushing me towards another company for the second server as I don't like high setup fees. I can just about live with $99 setup, but only just. Anything over $100 is too much for a setup fee if you ask me, I'd prefer to pay a slightly higher monthly, rather than to sign up, pay a huge setup fee and find out the service is worthless.

Originally posted by phpcoder
No duh ;) :stickout

This will be fixed shortly.

I wish it was fixed shortly...

.......

24hrs down and counting.

I just signed up like last week too :'(

I'll let ya'll know how it goes...

woot... time to go to a new server...

(they're transferring me i mean... doubling my bandwidth also for the troubles... now I can set up that leet warez sitez)

Originally posted by HeMoPHiLiaK
woot... time to go to a new server...

(they're transferring me i mean... doubling my bandwidth also for the troubles... now I can set up that leet warez sitez)

bad :stickout

Originally posted by HeMoPHiLiaK
woot... time to go to a new server...

(they're transferring me i mean... doubling my bandwidth also for the troubles... now I can set up that leet warez sitez)
lol then you can wait for the fbi to knock on your door also :)

Just for grins: is 12-28 hours normal, whilst hosting dedicated servers, for reboot on their end? And do hosts generally require 35$/reboot?

(hemo, 28 hours down. beatcha!)

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http://www.jokersupdates.com (which needs new server, on the prowl)