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What else do you expect for $50, and >100 mbit unmetered?
I don't think they can recoup costs even if it's pure Cogent.
Nonsense. There's no reason 15 racks can't be run on one line and 3 extension cords carefully run from the office next door.
What? Quality? Not sure what that is.
Lolol, fair enough :P
Anyone in the US mind ringing them up and see if they're answering? I'm trying to ring them via iCall (free service) so I'm not sure if they're not answering because it's some sort of weird number...
Commercialmedia.com is AS11288 (bgp.he.net/AS11288)
There is a lively thread on WHT that mentions the AS and positive/negative comments from new customers.
Nothing there suggests another Volumedrive. Every traceroute I tried yesterday went through a 65.113.48.x hop that seemed to be a metro (maybe Comcast) connection. Comcast business in DC/Baltimore offers up to 10 gbps with BGP and aggressively prices (in my limited experience) when other fiber is nearby. I'm not saying this outfit has 10 gpbs, only that bandwidth has probably gotten cheaper in their neighborhood.
Could you link to that thread?
@Wintereise
www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1188269
I need more comfort than price here. Most of the text on their site is a copy and paste from Rackspace, no SSL on WHMCS, and I don't think anybody has spoken to someone that wasn't 'Mike'
If that was a shared or VPS provider, I'd be thinking bedroom host.
They are not picking up the phone right now
Or just ignoring me, which I will be very mad.
Yay got an email from Jeff Martin (Data Center Operations Manager) saying he is setting up my server right now. Very polite, just asking what type of RAID config I'd like the drives to be in. Anyone else got an update?
Has been 4 days almost, still waiting for a reply for my initial inquiry.
@Taz_NinjaHawk Seriously? Send an email to mike.jones@..... He's been emailing me back pretty quickly.
I'm getting pretty terrible pings to their test IP from the UK, which is weird. So I probably won't be ordering anything.
@Taz_NinjaHawk yeah I noticed that contacting mike directly gets you a reply fast. Otherwise things are slooooooow. My initial inquiry was sent the same day as yours and replied to in around 20 mins.
@AsadHaider @jkr1711 Thanks. I will most likely get a box for some script mirroring. Only if they replies to their initial sales email :P
Server set up! I'll do a cachefly and dd test in a second
Cachefly test
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test--2012-09-27 15:41:54-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â100mb.testâ
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.1M/s in 9.7s2012-09-27 15:42:04 (10.4 MB/s) - â100mb.testâDD Test
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.18762 s, 149 MB/s
Got what I expected to be honest, pleasantly suprised for a change
Raid 10 ? SW/HW?
RAID 1, currently just got 2 drives
Not bad. Software raid?
Yeah software raid, using debian 6 (squeeze)
qwest lolwat
SERVERBEAR MAYBE
Yeeesss.... (we) need a ServerBear!
@Taz_NinjaHawk I think you can take the honours of doing the serverbearing round here, I got some software to be setting up
Once they get back to me
How fast did you get the server?
@Alex_LiquidHost Made an enquiry on Sunday, got first reply on Sunday and paid on Sunday. Got placed in a queue, server was delivered on Wednesday. They racked other people earlier this morning, around 30 mins ago server was put online. So 4 days it took which is acceptable for the price
Just wrote Mike an email. I could use a couple of dev nodes of those 34xx xeon's.
Damn, they will deliver it in 2 weeks.
When I visit them on wednesday I will be able to see if they are truly busy or not
@Spencer Do you get to meet Mike Jones?