rackshack

[thecoolh]

www.ssihost.com ... a friend's freehost... hosted on a cobalt box @ rackshack... box went down... just for nothing... rackshack says its "boot looping"... they define it as: boots up to say cobalt networks and begins to uncompress kernel and then suddenly goes back the cobalt networks part

i mean... whats up with that crap?!? now they want to reformat the box... and won't even put in an effort to backup the data... ! nor will they send the box out to the client to backup the data... (but then again, they don't have to cuz its legally their box and technically theres no way to stop the client from running off with the box after its been shipped to them for data recovery, hmm)... so... what does this mean? rackshack sells a defective box which dies and causes the client to lose all his data, and they don't even bother trying to help the client out.... ! what kinda crap is that!?

he can't post anything in here simply due to his contract with rackshack (and i don't think he has an account here)... he didn't even ask me to post this here... but i mean... when crap like this happens to friends, it pisses me off... now... if this is happening to people i know... i wonder how many other people its happened to... hmm...!

[thecoolh]

oh... btw... he's not getting a credit for all this service downtime caused by faulty hardware they provided him with... and the reputation of his sites are getting screwed in the process...

[hrmedclinic]

I saw your post.....5500/month for a 100mbps connection - WOW......
I mean is 128kbps = 40gigs of bandwith... its comes out
10mbps = 3125 GIGs....then 100mbps = 31250GIG/month...

thats like 17 cents per GIG.

I hope you are not some noneprofit organization :)

BTW you are not related in any way to Coolwebhosting.com? which later on became Bic Picture Inc..... and then cut off without warning 2000 some of their clients, packed their bags and left?

[ljames]

1) If you knew anything about RAQs you would know this happens. We have lost three boxes because of this. It is a pain in the a**. You just have to reformat and restore.

2)
and the reputation of his sites are getting screwed in the process...

How can you have a reputation on a $99.00/mo box??? That is like me driving around in a BMW and parking it out front of my trailer I live in. If you want a managed box, $99.00/mo isn't going to do it. That was just a bad business decision if you put something mission critical on a $99/mo box. Why would they refund a hardware failure? They told you the problem and how to fix it to where downtime is small. Also, with proper backups and a restore, you wouldn't be down more then 4 hours.

3)
I saw your post.....5500/month for a 100mbps connection - WOW......

Not really. Cogent is well under this. He is using "NON-Cogent" which means he is still using GIG-e either from Yipes, XO, Level3 or a few others. Nothing new. That price actually is a little high from what we have been quoted from other GIG-e's.

[Tommy]

This thread has been edited and the discussions about Tier-1 networks moved to it's own thread titled

Tier-1 networks - top of the food chain

And can be found at:

http://forums.webhostdir.com/showthread.php?threadid=2416&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

[thecoolh]

fyi... there are some posts about rackshack in the tier-1 thread...

[thecoolh]

this probably doesn't mean anything... but... www.rackshack.net

hosted on a NT box... interesting, considering they sell pretty much only UNIX dedicated servers...

[Technics]

I dont see that it makes any difference what platform they host there website on. Everything is programmed in asp so it would be make sense to host it on nt servers.

[thecoolh]

true... never said it had any significance... heh

it used to be PHP and on one of their unix boxes, i m sure of that... heh... :) just stumpted as to why they would change... hmm... they don't seem to have any "advanced features" that would require ASP on their site... hmm... o well...

i have always hated NT... lol... uptime issues... lol...

[Tommy]

Originally posted by thecoolh

i have always hated NT... lol... uptime issues... lol...

This website is hosted on a Win2k box and it's pretty stable. Much better then the old NT machine we had. Mind you, we did get that one running pretty well after a while. It's not so bad, you just need to put in a lot of effort to get it going properly. :)

[thecoolh]

hehe... i know that win2k can be stable... (i run win2k at home, has never locked up, period...)

its just back in the day... (like 2+ years ago when i had the cute 'lil p2 servers... lol)... running winnt... could never get 'em boxes stable... hehehe... but thats probably more the cheap hardwares fault than the OS, to an extent... heh

[multipleimage]

Originally posted by thecoolh
hehe... i know that win2k can be stable... (i run win2k at home, has never locked up, period...)

its just back in the day... (like 2+ years ago when i had the cute 'lil p2 servers... lol)... running winnt... could never get 'em boxes stable... hehehe... but thats probably more the cheap hardwares fault than the OS, to an extent... heh

i've seen p2 servers run win2k without any problems. I still have a few of those around even.