[Gllug] UK2

[will]

jim at lateral.net wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>   A friend is thinking of renting UK2 powerraq for web hosting a
>>   couple of clients.
>>Comments about Powerraq/UK2 service levels etc
>>TIA
>>
> 
> CRAP!

Indeedy.  Grep the archive for mails about UK2.net and you will find a 
couple of rants from me about them.  I make there to be about 18463 
messages in the archive so it might take you a while :-)

<searches>

Ah!  here one is:

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----- 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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Will.

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