That URL should be http://www.rackshack.net. Rackshack.net must not have their server configured properly to accept http://rackshack.net.

a great resource for webhosting is <br />http://webhostingtalk.com

oops <br /> <br />(btw, delete this post doesn't work)

Anyone try Infinology.com or Globat.com?<br /><br />I'm looking for something with at least 1.5GB storage and at least 50GB/month. This is not for a threads server (at least not now). as I have a great agreement for my threads server, but need to offload get a replacment of my current pciture server that was comletely donated by a user. <br /><br />Prices seem cheap for what you get (35GB and 100GB/month for $16/month with Infinology.com)<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Fred

As a former Infinology customer, I will say this, "STAY AWAY!" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />They were decent, not too expensive and offered a lot of features. But very sporadic downtime, and a lot of issues with billing made me switch. Granted, this was a while ago, but to this day, I haven't been a customer of theirs for some time, yet they still send me these overdue invoices. I have told them to remove me from their list, as I don't host with them, yet they continue to send me invoices <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />Just remember, you get what you pay for with hosting. 35GB/100GB for 16/month is impossible. They rely 90% of their customers using only 10% of their allotted resources, and oversell like crazy.<br /><br />I'm not going to tell you who to go with, or who is better than who... but Infinology is not very good, and as a former customer of theirs, I cannot recomend them. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />If you have any other questions related to hosting, or various companies, let me know, I'll be happy to fill you in.

Thanks for the advice... anyone have comments on Globat?<br /><br />$30/month for 2GB/100GB/month.<br /><br />PS, Infinology also has a 9gb/60gb/month version for $7.50 if I recall... supposidlty they are better, but ya, it sounds too good to be true... Must be a catch somewhere...

I'm not terribly familiar with Globat.. so I can't make a recomendation. If you want, I would look at www.webhostingtalk.com and search the forums for globat, see if any discussion comes up regarding them <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[]powerlord said:<br />Oh, I found out that my current dedicated server host, http://rackshack.net, currently has some $99 setup fee deal going on for most of its machines...[/]<br />Powerlord, how do you rate your current server host? Can a Celeron 1.3/Celeron 1.7/P4 2.0 server handle a couple threads boards simultaneously? Do you really get the 700GB/month bandwidth that they mention on their web site?<br /><br />On a side note, does anyone know of any other high-bandwidth virtual hosting or server hosting sites?

Conrad, how large are the threads sites? A celeron would be fine for a small, threads site, but these are really not server chips at all and will not handle higher traffic, let alone multiple sites.<br /><br />When my site was a little smaller (1200 members, and about 700 posts per day) it was running on a dedicated P3 1.7ghz machine. It was adaquate, but when a lot of users were online (more than 50) you could really start to see the server struggling.<br /><br />So it all depends on the size of the sites, but in all honesty I would at least try to avoid celerons for servers, especially for a dynamic platform like threads. You will leave yourself with almost no room to grow.

Hi Jeremy, many thanks for the kind help. I think the most users I'll have onine at any given moment is about 100, but throughout most of the day it'll probably be around 35-50.<br /><br />Rackshack seems to have a good deal on the P4 servers: P4 2GHz, 1GB Ram, 80GB HDD, and 700GB transfer/mth (what I need most as I'm using over 80GB every month at the moment). All this for $139/month. Does this seem like a good deal - or are there any other offers which I should give a closer look?<br /><br />The only thing I'm worried about is administering the server - is the Ensim WEBppliance 3.1 or Plesk 6 software any good?

I've really gotten to like CPanel for being easy to administer and loaded with features. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In my opinion CPanel is miles ahead of Plesk. I love the one click backups that cpanel offers.

Go for the Plesk 6 deal - you can up it to an unlimted number of domains if you wish for an additional one of payment of $99.<br /><br />Bear in mind that they are offering it with RH9 - the others are RH7.3 which will not be supported after the end of the year by Redhat.<br /><br />

Thanks, guys. CPanel is not unfortunately an option at this place, though I'll keep that in mind when I look around for other options.<br /><br />Ian, thanks for pointing out the RH9/RH7.3 issue. I was under the impression that Rackshack would keep up-to-date versions of Linux on their machines, but if they don't automatically switch from 7.3 to 9 by the end of the year there there really is only one option worth looking at.<br /><br />Is anyone here a customer of theirs?

I manage 2 CPanel servers at RackShack. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> And 2 Cpanel servers at Server Beach. <br /><br />They've got forums at http://forums.rackshack.net where you could ask any questions you have of other customers.

[]Conrad said:<br />The only thing I'm worried about is administering the server - is the Ensim WEBppliance 3.1 or Plesk 6 software any good? [/]<br /><br />Regardless of control panel your server comes with, if you have basic hosting knowledge, you shouldn't have much problem. There are a few issues that you would normally not have to deal with on a shared account, but for the most part your provider will get your machine running, software installed, and ready for you to begin setting up accounts.

Thanks, guys. Rackshack does indeed offer CPanel. I guess the choice is between Plesk with RH9 and 'all other software' with RH 7.3. Should RH9 be my main priority - won't Rackshack upgrade the OS anyway when it goes out of date?<br /><br />

They "should" update when appropriate, but I would assume the biggest reason they aren't offering cpanel with RH9 is due to some bugs and problems with newer versions of RH and it's inability to play nice with some software. There are people running RH9 + cpanel.. but there are more running that setup with problems.<br /><br />So I'm guessing they are saving themselves a lot of support hassles by not offering it until it is near 100% stable.

Right now I'm looking at the P4 2GHz processor (Rackshack), but I've also received a counter-offer for a server equipped with _two_ PIII 600MHz processors. Which setup is more effective for running database-driven bulletin boards?<br /><br />Also, does anyone know how much Rackshack would charge just to change the disk drive to a SCSI one? Has anyone done this upgrade with them before?<br /><br />With regards to server software, I check out demos of Ensim and Please. Ensim seems fairly straightforward, though the design/layout doesn't seem as friendly and easy-looking as Plesk's. The only problem with Plesk (6.0) is that is seems to support Postgre... and not MySQL. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />Control Panel looks really good from the screenshots, though it's too bad that they don't give a demo so that one could try it out to see how it feels.

Plesk 6 supports MySQL - no problems there.<br />