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[coolgus]

Hello

I read a big topic in the dedicated servers forum about this company and I would like to have your opinions and experiences with this company about their managed dedicated servers solutions.

I have one large vbulletin (1.000.000 posts) and one smaller and couple of other minor sites. Since I'm not experienced in linux, I would like to have problems with apache and mysql fixed asap.

Also are there any issues which you have faced and there aren't included in their plan so you had to fix it by yourself?

Could you suggest another company with similar prices but dependable services?

Thanks

[BlueBoxHost]

We just started using serverwizards. I am amazed at how fast they are. The last ticket I put in at 2AM was resolved within a hour. I have looked online and found several companies out there. But serverwizards is the only one I have not read anything bad about here on wht.

There server management package is very good. I have not seen them do the Do It Yourself message. Unlike some of the other management companies.

Hope this helps.

[BurakUeda]

I am with them for few months now, and I couldn't be happier.
I absolutely recommend them.

[Mr.D]

I recommend them to been with them for about 2 or 3 months i got a server with them and the support is excellent.

[Zealus.com]

Where are they located?
I see that they sell guaranteed unmetered 20mbps bandwidth - sounds too good to be true for $249/month. Could someone explain to me how it's done?

[agi]

They are located in Chicago, IL

[Zealus.com]

Originally Posted by agi

They are located in Chicago, IL

Thanks. Although I still don't know how unmetered bandwidth is possible.

Anyone tried that?

[adam]

unmetered is easily possible, unlimited is not though.

[AvailNetworks]

they just cap the port at whatever speed you wish and do not monitor bandwidth

[LinuxMaster]

Originally Posted by AvailNetworks

they just cap the port at whatever speed you wish and do not monitor bandwidth

I'm sure they monitor it, even if it has no practical purpose.

[eth00]

The important thing to realize is what it is sold as, by looking at your post they appear to be selling shared bandwidth. That just means you are probably not going to be guaranteed to sustain 20Mbps 24/7 which is what you would be getting if you purchased bandwidth directly from a provider (cogent, lvl3, etc).

[SiteHostCity]

Martin and his crew have been great. We have one of our servers with them. Anytime we have a question or problem, they have been responsive within a reasonable time and have addressed the problem.

[Corptex]

Originally Posted by eth00

The important thing to realize is what it is sold as, by looking at your post they appear to be selling shared bandwidth. That just means you are probably not going to be guaranteed to sustain 20Mbps 24/7 which is what you would be getting if you purchased bandwidth directly from a provider (cogent, lvl3, etc).

Hi eth00.

So you think they're selling 'shared dedicated' lines? I suppose that would make sense given their price, which is astounding I think for the complete package including the 20Mbps line.

It didn't really make too much sense to me, but that does seem like a viable explanation. CalPOP (please stay away from them, however, they are severely invompetent and nearly destroyed my business. It was like they migh have well been my enemy instead of my DC) is ofer now 3,300Gb transfer burstable, which is a 10Mbps live equivalent, but you get that burst benefit.

I think these are interesrting bandwidth solutions; I'd like to see more companies go this route to find out where things settle in.

These two companies appread to be trying to give the best of both worlds in a hybrid bandwidth fashion, but from the two opposite directions - CalPOP from burstable, and ServerWizards from dedicated.

This may be a major industry change coming up, and I think it show a lot of promise for many applications. I would be wonderful if DC's started using four options for bandwidth provision
1) Burstable
2) Burstable hyrbid - like whatCalPOP is doing
3) Dedciated hybrid - like what ServerWizards is doing
4) Dedciated

Hmmm... warrents a new topic, I think.

[ak7861]

pixelfxsolution.com had almost similar plan but even cheaper.

[thekia]

Originally Posted by Corptex

It didn't really make too much sense to me, but that does seem like a viable explanation. CalPOP (please stay away from them, however, they are severely invompetent and nearly destroyed my business. It was like they migh have well been my enemy instead of my DC) is ofer now 3,300Gb transfer burstable, which is a 10Mbps live equivalent, but you get that burst benefit.

That is not really correct, read more about it. It is actually the new way they do things. they have low end bw which they will let you have at 10mbps port (3300GB) or 1000GB on PREMIUM bw. They also charge you to uncap the port. $99/month.

http://calpop.com/bandwidth.html

So with the so called hybrid bw your packets come in via all connections but go out of their least expensive provider, currently Cogent I think. With the 3300GB your are on a 10mbps port you can uncap this with $99/mo fee.