[Gllug] Hiring servers - uk2.net

[Lee Blackwell]

Heh, I used to "administer" (aka blow the dust off) RaQ's back at
WebFusion... nice idea, poorly executed.  We always had great fun telling
the helldesk that they'd have to tell customer X that his RaQ was a
gonna/overloaded/unbootable, and all we could do was a factory reset.

I'd say stick with a "proper" server, either co-lo or a shared server if
you have to.  And if you want to do anything except host HTTP on a Raq,
forget it.  If you do telnet in, you void the warranty.

Although I never did work out why Sun decided to buy Cobalt.  Maybe thats
why I see RPM support in Solaris 8?? ;-)

Lee

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Lee Blackwell
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, will wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk>
> To: "Gllug (E-mail)" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:06 PM
> Subject: [Gllug] Hiring servers - uk2.net
>
>
> >I've been looking at www.powerraq.com and it looks like you can hire a
> >server + connection and rackspace for just 300 pounds a year.
> >Is this too good to be true? - I don't really have the experience to see
> >through the marketing hype.
> >I think it's a fairly new thing.
>
> >It seems that elsewhere is at least a grand per year.
>
> It is UK2.net and IMO they are a bunch of cowboys.  It is interesting that
> they started this promotion at the same time that they advertised that they
> had moved all their shared hosting onto cobalt raq4 servers, indicating
> that
> the raq 3 servers in this offer are (I would guess) ex-shared web hosting
> servers.  Added to that, raq servers net being terribly good and the level
> of support that UK2.net offer it doesn't seem too much to a good deal.  Try
> and find out if there is a hardware guarantee, ie. if the server goes kput
> after 1 week and you have paid the 1 year/6months up front that they need,
> wether or not they will replace the server for you.  If you can get them on
> the phone that is, which is unlikely.
>
> Personally I wouldn't use a cobalt raq at all, let alone from UK2.net.
>
> Will.
>
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