Recomendation for dedicated server

[E K]

Hi Fraser,

Have you looked at Hostway?

http://www.hostway.com/dedicated-servers/truflex-s.html

 Their offer seem to be better for the same price. The
company also looks well established.


EK

--- Fraser Campbell <fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> 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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