CenTex Hosting Colocation Review

aaraya1516

Colocation Review:

I currently have 2 x 1U colocated with @CenTexHosting for four months. The experience has been great, customer support has gone beyond expectation. They are great with communication and coordination when physical maintenance is required. I had a machine pulled from the rack, added drives, and put back within 1 hour (it was probably less, I just can't remember). The moment it was switched back on they sent emails to ensure everything went smoothly.

The promotional deal was where you buy a server and get colo for $49.95. Some great added benefits: free remote hands and free rack/stack.

I believe these are their networks: Level 3, GTT, HE, and cogent

I'm using proxmox on the machines and recently rebooted one of my VMs, here's the download benchmark from that VM:

wget x86.ca/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency :  3300.024 MHz
Total amount of ram : 488 MB
Total amount of swap :  MB
System uptime :   3:12,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 85.7MB/s 
Download speed from OVH, Beauharnois, Canada: 4.02MB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Toronto, Canada: 21.2MB/s 
Download speed from ColoCrossing, Chicago, USA: 34.0MB/s 
Download speed from Choopa, Piscataway, USA: 29.7MB/s 
Download speed from Leaseweb, Manassas, VA, USA: 21.4MB/s 
Download speed from Atlanta (10Gbps pipe), USA: 1.29MB/s 
Download speed from Volume Drive, Wilkes Barre, USA: 13.1MB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Orlando, USA: 10.2MB/s 
Download speed from Incero, Dallas, USA: 112MB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, San Francisco, USA: 30.8MB/s 
Download speed from QuadraNET, LA, USA: 42.2MB/s 
Download speed from OVH, Roubaix, FR: 6.32MB/s 
Download speed from Redstation, London, UK: 10.1MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Frankfurt, DE: 6.77MB/s 
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem: 9.10MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 10.5MB/s 
Download speed from Digital Ocean, Singapore: 5.68MB/s 
Download speed from iiNet, Perth, AU: 4.64MB/s 

inthecloudblog

Reselling incero or do they colo somewhere else?
what hardware have you've got in place, bw, port, amps, etc ?

aaraya1516

@inthecloudblog said:
Reselling incero or do they colo somewhere else?
what hardware have you've got in place, bw, port, amps, etc ?

Should have pointed that stuff out, and specified I'm in the Dallas location.
https://centexhosting.com/dallas-colocation
The 1u level is what I have.

I colo an E3 seen above, and an older Dual E5620.
BW: 10TB @ 1Gbps (not an abundance, but plenty for me.)
Power: 1 Amps 120V Power Circuit

The address corresponds to Carrier-1, so I'm assuming they operate the DC? Not sure if they are reselling incero, I haven't asked and it wasn't disclosed.

MikeA

@inthecloudblog said:
Reselling incero or do they colo somewhere else?
what hardware have you've got in place, bw, port, amps, etc ?

I believe they have space with Psychz in C1, if I remember a past chat correctly.

BradyH

@inthecloudblog --- We own our servers we do not resell
@MikeA -- Our Racks in Dallas are with Incero which is in the Carrier 1 Building.
@aaraya1516 --- Thanks for the Great Review.