www.viperhost.com

You'd have to contact them privately about dedicated hosting though ;)

- miSt

There's two things that stopped me from going to rackshack. First is no Cpanel, buying an external license costs about $65. Secondly, I'm a newbie when it comes to linux administration, and my SSH knowledge is extremely limited. Should I need something done on the server, or if something goes wrong, i'm on my own as it's not a managed server. I needed managed and nocster delivers it to me at a good price.

When I was first looking for a ded. server just over a month ago, nocster and rackshack were the two places I had in mind. I almost went with a rackshack but I needed managed so I went with nocster. I'd been with nocster a couple of months before, and the service was quite good.

If you have a pretty big site or are planning on starting a hosting company I strongly suggest for you to stay away from Rackshack. Although they have improved since I was there it was a personal nightmare for myself support wise they are very tough to get things done such as simple old reboots.

Nocster is a very good place and they have Cpanel *Drools* which is the best cp in my opinion to have on a server. Viperhost I've heard good things about but not sure on them doing dedicated.

Well yeah, as I said, you get what you pay for and you don't pay for support :p

I don't complain about reboots though, normally a reboot takes 10-15 minutes now, I remember it taking more than an hour, sometimes a few hours, but this was more than a year ago. But I'm happy with rackshack, all I need them to do is to reboot my server every now and then, everything else I can take care of myself.

I have a dual AMD MP server from Nocster (with 2 GB ram, special order), and their support is awesome. The server is awesome too, I've had 500+ on at once (on the same vbulletin database) and load was about 1.

anytime I look for a host here are the first things I look for

1. atleast 3 or 4 different redundant connections to the net
2. is it tier 1?
3. new boxes (pent 4 2.x or better; or athlon 2000xp or better)

first thing you should do is email someone in charge. is it a small company, then email the owner. if its as big as rackshack. email a supervisor or manager in the sales dept. see how quick they are to respond and how well they answer your questions

any attempts to dodge difficult questions are a sign that you should take your business elsewhere.
you are trusting your site and its info to them. if they are vague now, imagine what could happen if/when your site crashes and you have more important questions for them

What is the catch to these deals at Rackshack? $0 setup and $0 monthly?

Man,

This is a great thread!

I'm considering putting a couple of sites on a dedi and now i'm 1 step closer as I am also a newbie to dedis.

Thanks

Funny, I started this thread, checked back a couple times and was in the mood to act quick so went and got one before this thread ever was responded to.

But for a follow up, I (as I said before reading this thread since this is the first time in three months I have read it) went over to rackshack, looked at their prices, knew a bit about their rep and checked around more to find out they had a solid rep.

Three months latter I could not be happier, I run my site as it is and becoming, and a few other sites and more or less have 1500 other domains parked/pointed to the actives sites on the server.

Cost was like 199 setup, 139 a month. They did not have any dual xeons available at that moment I looked and I was in the mood to buy now so I got what I thought was the most cost effective system.

139 dollars their got me what 300-500 other places would get you. 2.0 ghz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig drive, and the one part I do not like - exim.

Support is damn good for basically boxes that are in reality unsupported. In fact the best in my four years online. Been with and thrown off like a million and one virtual hosts accounts for overuse and for sure not a one of them gave better support than I get from rackshack with an unsupported box. I found that I might know php and dhtml, but found someone that knows his stuff on the apache side and throw him fifty bucks a month to keep me secure and up to date - which makes my price still less than 200 and its more machine than I have found anywhere else for that price. Oh and I got 400 gigs of bandwidth, hell I got so much bandwidth I am mirroring the extended version of the php-chm just for the heck of it amongst other mirrors for other people. Might as well use it up.

Need a dedicated, or looking into one, go to rackshack, costs their for low end is maybe double a cheap virtual account - worth it.

For dedicated servers they don't maintain them for you. For someone new to this, that is not a very good deal.