Recomendation for dedicated server

[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 18 August 2006 14:52, E K wrote:

> I thought of going with Carinet and tried to call the
> Sales and tech support number 1.888.221.5902. All I
> got was the recorded message "We're sorry your call
> can not be completed as dialed.....". Well, that is
> pretty much the end of it.

Looks like the toll-free is US only. I called 1.858.974.5080 and did get 
through immediately to both sales and tech support (5-10 seconds hold at 
most).

The sales guy was very helpful, I asked him about rescue system/serial console 
and he was able to tell me that there was none (and was very knowledgeable 
regarding the underlying technology).  If you order larger numbers of servers 
(server clusters) then remote KVM might be available.

I'd be very concerned about having a remote server without rescue/console 
capability.  Also, although the (base) price is right I object to some of the 
pricing structure - I would want at least software RAID, they charge you 
$15/month for the extra disk and $20/month for software RAID1, give me a 
break!

I do want to set up a second server soon but don't really want it to be with 
1&1 (just for redundancy reasons) so I guess I'll keep looking.
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