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.
05-18-2003, 07:45 AM
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