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[allera]

Focal Hosting Solutions is pleased to offer the following:


SERVER ONE
- Pentium III 1.13Ghz
- 512MB Ram (512MB Max)
- 40GB 7200RPM Seagate
- 30GB/mo AT&T+Digex Bandwidth
- 8 IPs
- Any OS you choose (licenses provided by customer)
- 100Mbit Port
- Free Remote Reboot Capability
- Free 24 Hour Server Monitoring with Email Alerts
- 24/7 Emergency Response

Contract: NONE
Setup: FREE (normally $99)
Monthly: $149.00


SERVER TWO
- Pentium III 1.26Ghz
- 512MB Ram (2GB Max)
- 80GB 7200RPM Seagate
- 50GB/mo AT&T+Digex Bandwidth
- 8 IPs
- Any OS you choose (licenses provided by customer)
- 100Mbit Port
- Free Remote Reboot Capability
- Free 24 Hour Server Monitoring with Email Alerts
- 24/7 Emergency Response

Contract: NONE
Setup: FREE (normally $99)
Monthly: $199.00


SERVER THREE
- Pentium III 1.26Ghz (Dual CPU Capable)
- 512MB Ram (4GB Max)
- 18GB 10kRPM Seagate Hard Drive
- 50GB/mo AT&T+Digex Bandwidth
- 8 IPs
- Any OS you choose (licenses provided by customer)
- 100Mbit port
- Free Remote Reboot Capability
- Free 24 Hour Server Monitoring with Email Alerts
- 24/7 Emergency Response

Contract: NONE
Setup: FREE (normally $99)
Monthly: $249.00

SERVER FOUR
- Pentium III 1.26Ghz (Dual CPU Capable)
- 1024MB Ram (4GB Max)
- 36GB 10kRPM Seagate Hard Drive
- 100GB/mo AT&T+Digex Bandwidth
- 8 IPs
- Any OS you choose (licenses provided by customer)
- 100Mbit port
- Free Remote Reboot Capability
- Free 24 Hour Server Monitoring with Email Alerts
- 24/7 Emergency Response

Contract: NONE
Setup: FREE (normally $99)
Monthly: $299.00


6-Month Contract:
50 H-Sphere licenses are included ($320 savings); or
If you prefer another panel, let me know and we can probably include it.


Additionals:
Bandwidth - $2.00/GB prepurchased (less in large bulk), $3.00/GB overage.
IPs - Free with justification (80%/ARIN rules)
50 H-Sphere Licenses: $175.00 ($3.50/license, normally $4.50/license)
100 H-Sphere Licenses: $350.00 ($3.50/license, normally $4.50/license)
Backup Services Available.

IP to ping/trace: 66.129.95.127

Network:
DS3s to AT&T and Digex using BGP. Fully Cisco-powered network. It was specifically designed to have no single point-of-failure using mirrored dual Cisco 12000 series routers and 6500 and 3500 series switches.

Data Center:
16,000 sq. ft. and located in Jacksonville, FL. Dual UPS battery arrays with diesel generator for 100% power uptime. If you are in the area, tour requests are welcomed.

Tech Costs:
We will assist with basic questions and howtos. For complex tech service, we charge $90 per hour.

If you're looking for a high-quality network, 99.99% guaranteed network uptime (100% since Janurary) with a strong SLA, knowledgeable admins, quality servers, and a company that has been around for over a year and won't disappear into the night, Focal Hosting Solutions is for you. Customer service is and always has been our top priority. Ask around.

High-end servers are also available (Dual CPU, RAID, 4GB RAM).


To order, you can fill out this simple order form: http://www.focalhosting.com/services/dedsignup.shtml and state in the Comments section which server you wish to use; or you may email me directly.

If you have any questions, or if I missed anything, please let me know.

[edude]

How about cpanel/whm with the server three?

[allera]

Whoops, I had two server threes up there.

CPanel is $99/month with any server.

[edude]

so $398 for cpanel/whm on server 4?

[allera]

Correct.

[dkbain]

Nice offers Alex! H-Sphere is tops with us too.

One question - why are you using IDE disk drives? We've been supporting H-Sphere since Psoft's inception, and we've always found the high RPM (10000) and transfer rates (>160) of SCSI drives to make a noticable difference to the end customers of the hosters we support.

We welcome your competition and partnership in the area of supporting H-Sphere. If you need to support a customer that needs more bandwidth than you have down there in Jacksonville, we would be happy to help you. We occasionally will get Spanish language customers wanting H-Sphere, and it might save everyone time if we referred those down to you Floridians if that would be of interest.

Regards,

[allera]

ne question - why are you using IDE disk drives? We've been supporting H-Sphere since Psoft's inception, and we've always found the high RPM (10000) and transfer rates (>160) of SCSI drives to make a noticable difference to the end customers of the hosters we support.

Some people may want more space that SCSI can affordably provide, such as the 80GB drives. Pop another in there and you've got 160GB for the cost of one 36GB SCSI drive (approx, I didn't run the numbers but you know what I mean). Same thing for the 40GB IDE, it's much cheaper to get a second 40GB IDE than it is another 36GB SCSI. Our Focal Hosting servers run SCSI only, but that's our preference. IDE will work; SCSI is just better.

Besides, the last two servers are SCSI.

If you need to support a customer that needs more bandwidth than you have down there in Jacksonville, we would be happy to help you. We occasionally will get Spanish language customers wanting H-Sphere, and it might save everyone time if we referred those down to you Floridians if that would be of interest.

While I appreciate your offer, we can accomodate pretty much any size customer -- all they need is the money. We've got the resources to expand out quite a bit if we need to. We just recently had a customer pushing nearly a meg on a single site for a while before they went to a less-expensive provider. Our bandwidth isn't cheap.

As for the spanish, I know spanish, so if you're more comfortable sending those customers to other hosts, we should be able to accomodate.

[FHDave]

Originally posted by dkbain
One question - why are you using IDE disk drives? We've been supporting H-Sphere since Psoft's inception, and we've always found the high RPM (10000) and transfer rates (>160) of SCSI drives to make a noticable difference to the end customers of the hosters we support.

Is this being documented by psoft? I use IDE in RAID1 for the CP server (as well as mail and DNS) and SCSI drives (U160, 10000rpms) on our web servers. I don't see any performance degradation on our CP server. The fact that you suggested there is a performance degradation suggests me the possibility that you are using one server solution with your HSphere.

Although the Control Panel server is somehow memory hungry and will be best if you put a fast CPU, it is no disk intensive (even after you put mail and DNS on it). Why would you think an IDE can't handle HSphere (aside from the fact that you seem to use one server solution)? Unlike webservers where sometimes they need to serve millions of hits daily (and hence a SCSI drive will be of sure benefit), the CP server is hardly serve anything; the load of my CP/Mail/DNS server is very minimum as we should expect.

Anyway, are you or are you not using HSphere in a single serve solution? If so, then you are comparing apples to oranges. If not, then I would certainly love to hear what psoft (or any other HSphere hoster out there) have anything to say about it. As for me IDE should be all right. SCSI, though, will be better, of course.

regards,
-dave

[dkbain]

Hi, thanks for your comments. I certainly do not want to suggest that IDE usage on H-Sphere is problematic or in any way magnifies the slowness of IDE drives.

As far as your other question, we can configure H-Sphere to run on one box, but the optimal is 3 or more.

Hot -swappable SCSI drives do provide noticably better performance, and not just with H-Sphere, but just about any db linked applications. The other issue is uptime -- when the drive fails, you're talking about hours instead of minutes if it is not hot-swappable, which only low, low end customers tend to tolerate.

If there are any PSofters listening in, please chime in.

[FHDave]

we use hot swappable drives on our webservers (3 total). We also use IDE ATA100 7200rpm drives in RAID 1 (mirror) on our CP/MAIL/DNS1 server and our Dedicated mysql server. I have not seen any performance degradation.

The other issue is uptime -- when the drive fails, you're talking about hours instead of minutes if it is not hot-swappable, which only low, low end customers tend to tolerate

I assume you have RAID5 or RAID1 drives hot swapable? Otherwise, in what aspect a hot-swappable non RAID SCSI be different in case of a hard drive failure? Shouldn't you still have a catasthrophic situation for your high end customers? I see that out of your 5 dedicated servers offer, 3 of them only have single drive. The other two do not mention any RAID 1/5 solution. So how has your offer be different in terms of fault tolerance?

If you are really serious about fault tolerance to your high end customers, please consider web servers farm/cluster that are desgined to be totally redudant and gives you the real fault tolerance you are seeking. Your high end customers won't even experience any single second of downtime even if one server in the cluster fails. We have signed a deal to deliver this fault tolerance (as well as load balancing) to our shared hosting customers (some of them are not really high end, btw).

regards,
-dave

[edude]

Allera where do i order for a cpanel server? how do i go about ordering the server?

Thats is $398 server 4 cpanel..

[allera]

Email me and we'll get the details sorted out: allera@focalhosting.com

If you prefer to do it by phone (toll-free), let me know.

[Everyday]

Psoft does not have support for single dedicated machines with H Sphere yet. The maximum amount of sites you can put on a single server setup is about 50, and thats pushing it.

Are these single server setups or are you running these off of the control panel, dns, mail, etc servers that are already in place?

[allera]

50 sites on one server? I think it can handle many more than that -- easily.

Yes, these are single machines. You can purchase more and get more licenses (get 3 on 6-month contracts and get a 150-pack license free).

Where did you get the information that 50 sites is pushing the limits of a single server running HSphere? And what OS was this based on?

[FHDave]

HSphere does run on a single server. I don't think this is HSphere dedicated server extension (which I believe psoft is still working on it), but this is a fresh install of HSphere on one server.