RackForce vs GoDaddy VPS

winalpha · #1 03-31-2005, 06:59 PM

Hey,

I was looking for VPS hosting and i came across two different companies that have good prices and quanity. But I want to ask you guys what you think about them, the good or bad is welcomed. I'm fully aware that GoDaddy has a bad name on here, but i have used GoDaddy shared hosting and it fine even the support.

1. Which one do you think or know is better? why...

2. RackForce has basic support, if something happens they charge $25 per 20 minutes, will this happen often, how much does repairs cost on average...etc?

3. RackForce seems to have a range of unmetered bandwidth options, I heard 1.45 mpbs is standard. How much bandwidth is this? Is this a good amount? Do they charge extra from the base price I should know about..?

Anything else would be helpful

- thanks

n3tpreneur · #2 03-31-2005, 07:52 PM

dont waste money on such services .... you will nvr know how much will your bill comes to.

winalpha · #3 03-31-2005, 09:29 PM

what would be the additional charges, GoDaddy is bandwidth and that is easy to monitor and limit if need be. 500 GB would be ample for me.

davebytes · #4 03-31-2005, 10:17 PM

1.5Mbps is around 480GB/mo. But if it's capped 1.5Mb, you can't 'burst' higher than that when needed. Whereas if you take a plan that is budgeted at 500GB, but on a 10Mb (or 100MB shared) line, you can burst when needed to support your site.

Note that ACTUALLY USING 500GB is pretty high throughput for a VPS -- you'd either need a fairly top of the line plan, an 'unlimited' 1.5Mb plan, or at that point given the cost you should be looking at dedi not VPS...

BeDifferentSolutions · #5 03-31-2005, 11:04 PM

RackForce vs GoDaddy VPS

Why use a compnay that knows nothing about VPSs other then they sell them to get more cash? Godaddy is new and from what you read, why waste the money. Search here and find a host who knows VPSs.

WH-Coach · #6 03-31-2005, 11:34 PM

I think it would be irresponsible to suggest that RackForce knows nothing about VPSs. We were one of the first in the market offering a Virtuozzo-based VPS product, have a large, stable, customer base and have been in the datacenter business for years. Finally on that note (because I'm sure one of the mods who loves deleting these rebuttals is going to remove this anyway), our products are mature and based on the feedback provided by our customers.

winalpha, look carefully at what you're getting. I would rather see you get the right product from a competitor than the wrong product from RackForce and end up leaving mad.

VPS's don't 'break down' as such. There are certain things that need to be maintained that any credible host is going to look after for you -- for example: making sure you're on the current version of your virtualization software, making sure the hard drives aren't overflowing, making sure the CPU's aren't running red-hot with 50,000 processes.

What changes between providers is the amount of support that you're going to get inside your environment. Some providers go down the very expensive road of freely helping you:

- set up all your DNS records if something goes wrong
- recompile apache if something isn't working there
- recompile PHP if you need some additional feature that CPanel doesn't include by default
- reconfigure your mail servers if you need something changed

Some providers have their products set up for reselling and assume that the reseller is capable of looking after the VPS's for their own customers. Those providers will support you in the basics:

- your control panel has goofed something and you need help with an upgrade (plesk is famous for this)
- somebody has managed to lock themselves out of SSH and needs a password changed
- your VPS has crashed for some reason or isn't responding so you need help figuring out why

I hope that you can see two different levels of support. Judge your own abilities then go to the sales people at the various VPS providers and ask some questions about things that might come up:

"Will you help set up my DNS records for me?"

"Does CPanel come pre-configured with my domains set up for me?"

"Is there an extra charge for determining why my VPS crashed?"

"If I need to transfer from one VPS to another VPS in your datacenter, are there any additional charges?"

The answers to these questions are going to be far more useful than the answers you see here. You can do a search and find out some details about the VPS providers here - and there are lots of VPS providers to choose from. Hit up their sales departments and see how they do compared to your expectations.

cyanide · #7 04-01-2005, 10:22 AM

I have a vps with rackforce and have no complaints.

Support is quite good and responsive also

BeDifferentSolutions · #8 04-05-2005, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by WH-Coach
I think it would be irresponsible to suggest that RackForce knows nothing about VPSs. We were one of the first in the market offering a Virtuozzo-based VPS product, have a large, stable, customer base and have been in the datacenter business for years. Finally on that note (because I'm sure one of the mods who loves deleting these rebuttals is going to remove this anyway), our products are mature and based on the feedback provided by our customers.

Don't get you panties in a bunch and there is no need to make negative comments about the Mods. I was referring to Godaddy. Hence "Godaddy is new and from what you read, why waste the money. " I said nothing about RF. I was pointing out that someone should choose a VPS host like RF or others here over GoDaddy or places like Registerfly that are registrars first. Sorry if you read it differently.

Also, I love the "we were first" quotes. Hell. Every one who sells VPSs is "first" around here it seems. LOL.

Take care.

cyanide · #9 04-05-2005, 03:18 PM

Yeah, I kinda figured you meant GoDaddy...

I feel the same way about them

Tapan · #10 07-24-2005, 06:44 AM

Hi,

Rackforce is good if you're starting low scale hosting business. As soon as you reach 100 clients better shift to a dedicated.

I am a rackforce satisfied customer and now i am on my limit and have to shift to a dedicated. VPS can't handle much.

Thanks.

skyaus · #11 09-12-2005, 12:52 AM

i will go for godaddy base on these two providers.

bobtex · #12 10-02-2005, 01:15 PM

I will go with RackForce, I have worked with them for about three months now and they are GREAT. The response time with them is very quick. I have had a few things that took sometime to get resolved but overall I would highly recommend them to anyone. I wished they had phone support but oh well.

Robert

rasputinj · #13 10-03-2005, 11:05 AM

RackForce all the way, stay away from GoDaddy on the Vps side of things, they are great for domains. There are some other great companies out there, ServInt, A2b2, PowerVPS, and SolarVPS. They have great fully to semi managed offerings.