I have a 100 mbps unmetered dedicated server + cpanel = $425 in 10TB.com and I would like to hear if you guys can advice me on a better deal, I have seen lately great offers for less, so I wonder if I am paying more than the average for a 100 mbps unmetered dedicated + cpanel. I don't complain service is good, well theplanet was better but even more expensive.
I have an adult video site so all i need is bandwidth.
I appreciate your feedback on current prices and what i paid there. $425 for unmetered 100 mbps dedicated + cpanel is okay? paying a lot more? After all 10tb is a reseller, so should i go to another reseller that charge less?
I started my own hosting business from July, and placed my first three orders to softlayer.com.
I have to cost down now, and place my first order to 10tb.com last friday.
Because I live in Asia, and my english is not good enough.
So...I have to use email or ticket system to ask some questions,
I just want to give you some difference message here.
All the some steps to setup my server when I place my order to softlayer, they just spend 2 hrs.
And about the tickets I have sent to softlayer, They have no more than 15~20 minutes to reply me.
But when I have placed my order at Sep/10/2009 to 10tb.com, the server was ready for 3 days later.....
I think my next billing cycle should be extended three days, right?
And the ticket I have created on the control panel of 10tb.com, they usually reply me about 12~24 hrs later, sometimes more than 24 hrs.
When everything was ready with my server, it's Sep/14/2009.
And two day pass...I found that you are offering a 50% discount(first month) at 10TB.com.
Just one day, I wasted more than $170 USD...
I only complain about it, I hope that you could have best service in the future.
Because I plan to place all my servers with 10tb.com in the future.
And I will appreciate that if you have a great service in the future too.
I have to purchase another server recently, I hope I will get a better experience.
TO Dear eming :
I think 10tb.com provide a good service, but maybe I hope you will be better.
About my experience, you could check the ticket ID#24130306. And I want to place another order to 10tb, you could see the email I have sent to Tom and you yesterday.
i am always searching for an affordable provider offering ddos filtered servers.
I am interested in the offer of 10TB.com, and i really would like have opportunity of test it without renting for the whole month (because i believe they will not protect me) To verify this theory, I decided to rent a VPS node from VPS.net, assuming they are on the same network. I did some tests, and i was actually not protected (i think i have been null routed after a small flood). Talking with a VPS.net technician, he ASSURED ME 2 TIMES THAT NEITHER VPS.NET OR 10TB.COM ARE DDOS PROTECTED!
This is against all that has always been told from 10tb.com sales. So I returned on 10tb.com site, and asked in live chat some clarify. The man replied that yes, there is no protection. Then told me to wait, and when he returned he told me that 10tb.com servers are ddos protected, VPS are not (!!!). I am very very confused. if there is some 10TB.com sales agent, i kindly ask to have opportunity to make a test for a few days, or have a 7-day money guarantee.
Typically I don't post reviews on the forums but I guess I will go ahead with this one . We ordered our first server in November .
First off for those of you who don't know 10tb is under Midphase, which in turn is under UK2. I cannot have enough praise for UK2, Ditlev is an amazing CEO who will help just about anyone and truly does care about every client getting the service they deserve. I have always seen UK2's offers and usually wrote them off for being too good to be true, most recently they had the 10 deals for the birthday special and had the 100mbps unmetered Atom server for an amazing rate (99 GBP if I remember correctly). But anyone who believes their offers to be to good to be true should dismiss that feeling, they do deliver on what they advertise.
Now onto the review of the services:
1. Ordering/Setup - Nick really helped me here and continues to help me when I have issues to this day. Sometimes the sales guys just forget about you after they make the sale, that isn't the way at 10tb. Whenever I have an issue that I am not sure about an e-mail to Nick usually has the right answer or gives me the contact I need very quickly.
Our first server was ordered and setup within a few hours, with absolutely no issues. These servers are at Softlayer's datacenter, which has a great process for deploying servers, and we had an amazing experience. 10TB gave us all the info we needed for using the private network and panel access for the server to perform plenty of task. You are able to do most the features in the Softlayer panel a normal client can do, except sales and support functions.
We have ordered a 2 additional servers from them in the past month and a half as well, setup within a timely fashin, for the most part. The most recent server had a good amount of addons and confusion in a few parts and got deployed in the wrong datacenter at first, but got redeployed in the correct one within a few hours. We were having some issues with the hardware and software and after not having too much luck with support on what they were responsible for I contacted Ditlev who found the right people and had the issue fixed very fast (thanks!) and haven't had any problems with that server since.
2. Server/Network- Anyone who has used Softlayer knows that they really have their network together, since we do internet streaming we are always looking for the best network we can use for the least amount of money. Going directly with Softlayer wasn't an option because of the rates they charge for bandwidth directly, so knowing that 10TB used Softlayer's network we went with them. It is the real thing, there isn't a difference between the network you are on with a direct Softlayer server and a 10TB server. They are on the same private and public networks. We haven't had any issues at all so far (TX Datacenter) with the network and couldn't be happier. Speeds couldn't be better . There isn't much to say about the servers themselves, besides the nice IPMI feature you get. It has helped to be able to use the console and reboot controls when things have gone wrong.
3. Support- Support has been pretty good at Midphase, sometimes just a tad slower then I would expect but not to the point where I would ever complain. Sometimes they seem to just forget about tickets when they aren't the most important things in the world (like minor sales questions) but if you really need to find the answer you can usually just e-mail someone and they will get the answer very fast. The support has been amazing on important issues like servers not booting and other issues.
Conclusion- If you need plenty of QUALITY bandwidth, there is no one that I have found that compares to deal 10tb provides and the people there that run it. The price can't be beat, and in reality you can sometimes get a more powerful server with more bandwidth at 10TB then you can get directly at Softlayer with 2tb of bandwidth.
Well, that was longer then I expected. Hope it helps someone make a decision if they are thinking about using 10TB or Midphase . Oh yeah, and UK2 has to be one of the best companies at acquiring companies and making them even better.
Both are great companies which causes me to have a hard time deciding which to choose..10TB -Resold servers from SoftLayer, which is a plus -SoftLayer offers small to mid range DDoS protection if I am not wrong -Cost efficient -Reputable -And many more..Gigenet -Cost efficient -Owns their own datacenter -Offers a wide range of products and add-ons for a low cost/minimum cost -Solid SLA -Reputable -And many more..
I am also considering going for both, but I still need one of them for a start..
Personally I like 10TB more, for no particular reason, just liking it, but I can't resist what Gigenet offers too.. I wish to go for both too..
10TB.com seem to be offering servers at a decent price and I've emailed them regarding some sales issues and they replied in less than a minute! Its a few emails! Pretty fast response I suppose..
But regarding their reliability and support, how is it? Their servers are of low costs and they give 10TB bandwidth, which isn't cheap.
Since the 10TB traffic offers seem to appear from everywhere now, I thought it might be good to index what is actually the best offer out there right now.
The basic requirements for most high bandwidth sites are:
100Mbit or 1Gbit port, fully burstable with 10TB traffic limit Decent HDD drive, say, 250-500GB or low prices on upgrades $200/mo or less
After being with 10tb.com for months I decided to write a review of my experience so far.
A little about why i joined them: my main reason to moving from 10tb.com was simply because of it's amount of quality bandwidth backed by softlayer.com and the fact my 3 sites were outgrowing my 3 VPS's (knownhost and FDC).
Below I've rated each aspect of my 10tb.com experience.
Uptime: rating 9.8/10 Uptime has been great, the only downtime I've ever experienced in 2 months was 30min I believe.
Managed Support provided by Supreme Support: 9/10 The first month with 10tb.com I decided to get help with various issues like optimization and security hardening, for the most part it has been great, the only thing that annoyed me was the way some tickets were initially handled. For example sometimes if I requested help with something I'd get half an answer or a do it your self instructions.
Sales: 8/10 My sales experience was a bumpy one,this was because I had my server upgraded to a better special deal which required them to swap my physical server, in the process they issued me a total new invoice which i paid, this resulted in overlapping invoices and tons of confusing with tickets going back and forth and since the time zone difference between Australia and US is quite large this caused it to drag on even longer than it should have.
Although I rated it 8 I believe most people won't experience what I have so it should really be 9/10 -1 for response times for non US residents.
Hardware & Bandwidth speeds: 10/10 Nothing to say much here except everything has been perfect! simply quality stuff backed by softlayer that you can't go wrong with.
Value: 10/10 I've been checking offers on WHT almost daily and still do to this day,and I think I have one of the best deals out there. for $209 I'm getting a Quad Core Xeon 3220/8gb RAM/2x250gb/Cpanel/20GB NAS/ 10TB tier 1 bandwidth.
That about rounds my experience, I truly hope to continue with them and can see my self purchasing another server in the foreseeable future
After been with midphase/10tb for 11 months, things starting to get ridiculous.
this morning all my 7 servers are terminated, according to them it's due to "inability to act on the numerous amount of abuse complaints".
I use two servers for shared hosting, for the last 11 months, i only received about 4-5 DMCA complaints made to my hosting clients, all of complaints were taken care of in a timely manner.
I double checked that I didn't received any complaints for the past two weeks, the last one i received was last month and was taken care of.
I have filed a response to their "termination notice ticket" and called them 20 minutes ago, whoever was answering the phone says someone will look at the ticket, and yet no response to the ticket.
this is just sad, i don't know if i still want to stay with them after this.
I'm not using 100mbit line but I also can't tell you how much bandwidth are we using (graphs don't work now). Seems like we are using a little bit less than 300 gb/day.
We are a Free Image Hosting - FunkyIMG.com
To make it clear, we do respect laws but we usually have problems with some people uploading some s**t to our server (for example, CP).
As I'm almost the only one man to maintain that server (I do sleep sometimes or even can go on vacation) - I would like to kindly ask my new ISP not to take my server/ip down asap, but to contact me. With LeaseWeb and Ecatel I've managed to wipe all CP in several hours after report (and they gave me much more than 1-15 mins) even if I was in abroad.
We were hosted by PoundHost/UK once - and the server was taken down without any notification.. With other hosters everything is ok - even if I receive ~2 CP abuses a week.
So, suggest me a EU (I think NL, not UK) company with not very expensive shared 100mbit line and friendly people
Can I find something better than:
Quote:
HP DL120G5 Intel E2160 2GB RAM 2x250GB HDD 100mbit guaranteed unmetered dedicated port Monthly 139 Euro
HP DL120G5 Intel E2160 4GB RAM 2x500GB HDD 100mbit guaranteed unmetered dedicated port Monthly 159 Euro
Please do share if you know of a 10TB colo offer in either east or west. I know co-location is bandwidth-based but this is what we're looking for right now. Here are the requirements:
10TB (up and/or down) transfer on at least 100Mbps port
Good uptime history (BGP mix, A/B redundant power feeds, redundant hvac, etc)
Friendly crew (willing to help rack up 1U's if it's remote)
I'm in the market to purchase a handful of dedicated servers here in the next few months. I'm looking for the most "bang for the buck". And preferably don't want to pay more than $700 - $800/server/month. I stumbled onto 10tb, I've been doing a little bit of research, and so far have not found any negative reviews other then people trying to user their vps servers from outside the US and expecting 1Gbps speeds.
Anyway, I digress, their price tags are definitely in my price range. About $638 for an 8core server 2.26Ghz 12GB ram 2x250hdd, 100mbps unmetered. Best deal I've seen yet.
So far I like what I see with 10TB but i want to verify that I can expect to get the results I need. I've talked to support and they say it is dedicated bandwidth which means I can burst into 100mbps for long periods of time. I care about this more than anything. Most of these servers are going to need that connection, and I expect to max it out quite often. We plan on launching several game servers so bandwidth is definitely a necessity.
I will also be hosting our web-servers as well and will be looking to deploy load balancing when the time comes. So I would also like the ability have these servers in a private vlan.
Are there any 10TB customers out there using their 100Mbps unmetered plans with heavy loads? I know soft-layer has an amazing network. I just want to make sure this is dedicated bandwidth and I can loadup the port for days if needed. Without experiencing problems, server being shutdown, or extra fees coming into play.
I can probably expect to be at a normal load of about 60% or more bandwidth usage per server.
10TB really stands out to me because its on soft-layers network, and they have 3 different locations I can locate these servers. Which since we'll be deploying game servers is great to ensure low pings to all our clients.
I am open to looking at other hosts as long as they can provide me with the above requirements. I'm very interested in what 10TB costumers have to say.
Recently I noticed the load on one of my servers way beyound what I would expect it to be. I run multi processor servers and even during a backup the load is only around 1.5.
But lately I noticed peak loads that high under normal web traffic.
I know 1.5 is low on an multi processor server, but I am hoping to add much more to those machines and with sustained load that high it leaves no room for expansion. The servers are not cheap, so adding another server to the cluster can only be done if I make money from the last one I added.
I checked the traffic levels and they were very high. After further review I had some bots hitting sites at over 1200 pages a minute. Multiply that by a few hundred bots and clearly I could have a load issue. The potential is there to bring any server to its knees when delivering those volumes.
I created programing to watch connections and block the abusive bots. While logging I became aware of over 600 bots crawling my servers. Many bots from, Japan, China, Germany and so on and on, useless to my customers even if they are legit search indexes.
Another problem I see is that the bots are running from many ip addresses and hitting the same sites from multiple ips at the same time. Why would the need to do that?
Among other things I decided to validate googlebot, msn and yahoo with dns lookups so I could determine that they were actually their bots and not imposters. In 24 hours I found valid bots from the big three hitting one server from 1100 different ips.
Now we are looking at thousands of vaild bots and thousands more email harvesters and content theives.
As a host, the number of sites I can host on a server is greatly reduced by the bot traffic. My customers do not want to hear that their website was being crawled at 3,000 pages a minute and that is why they could not access it. Of course they will blame it on me.
I was able to filter the bots at a firewall level and drop connections based on reverse dns lookups and site crawl rates and my server sits around 0.05 most of the time even with hundreds of pages a minute being accessed.
I am wondering how the rest of you hosts deal with this problem. Do you leave it up to your hosting customers? Or do you have some type of filter to get rid of the bots.
When you have a few sites it is not really a problem, but as you grow it grows exponetially out of control.
My site is hosted on Dreamhost and gets over 1 million hits a day. The site is highly optimized, so it can handle the load easily without slowing the server down. Most pages have a loading time of under 0.2 seconds.
However, Dreamhost is telling me now that I'm using up too many "connections" and have limited my connections to 150 every 3 seconds (or so they say). Now 503 errors are coming up left and right, and its highly annoying to me and my users. Oh, and Dreamhost has mentioned several times that I'm oh such a very good candidate to upgrade to $400/mo dedicated hosting (from $8/mo currently).
So my question is, is this connection restriction really a valid concern of Dreamhost or are they just trying to milk me for money because my site is popular?
we have a dedicated server licent who host a big forum with 1G big SQL size Dual Xeon 3G ram SCSI 10K RPM main drive Cpanel server and cpanel auto backuo
load is always under 2 and ram is MORE than enough.
everytimes auto backup run, his forum HANGS due to large size of SQL at least 10 minutes.
Issue is that he targets at 2 very different time zone , he expects NO downtime/HANGS at all
In this php page, I dont have any code related to mail. But the header is clearly showing
Return-path: <email@domain.com> Received: from apache by server-name with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from < email@domain.com >) id 1HIhVz-0006CN-0l for kris.bodine@okstate.edu; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:35:23 +0700 To: kris.bodine@okstate.edu Subject: Good Day X-PHP-Script: www.domain.com/path/filename.php for 195.166.234.251 From: Victor Tommy <tommyvic@mail.ru> Reply-To: vic-tommy@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <E1HIhVz-0006CN-0l@server-name> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:35:23 +0700
Whenever I try out a vps or dedicated the first thing I do is run Unixbench WHT on it.
I have been trying to compile on different systems a mixture of 32bit, 64bit, Fedora, Ubuntu etc, and in many instances the compilation fails the first time around.
e.g on a 32bit Ubuntu system I had to switch to gcc-3.4, instead of 4.0.3 for compilation to succeed.
Is there any place I can try and have this issues resolved when they arise?
Unsurprisingly it always appears to compile okay on 32bit Fedora/Centos Virtuozzo systems.
We've browsed/searched a lot these last years and I believe fdcservers has the best bandwidth deal, with stability and a good service.
We've been searching the last days and found some other companies (ex 10TB.com). Are there any other companies that would offer something as 'good' as fdc regarding bandwidth?
10TB says they use softlayer's DC but it seems they don't use their network (got that information on a chat with SL's sales) so in my opinion there is no benefits to be on SL's DC if we don't use their network which is really good/stable. We've found that 10tb.com is a new company and their site has 404 and incorrect contact e-mails address which made we 'quit' the signup process.. (and because it is hard to 'trust' a new company with lot of bandwidth - and errors on their website - when there are others on the market for a long time that couldn't offer it).
What do you think about 10tb.com? Other options? What about fdc? Is it worth going with them to host streaming ? We need as much bandwidth as possible, but we also need quality.
I'm thinking about a couple of different deals, and as I'm not a hardware expert I wondered if anyone could help me out with this.
Server 1: Quad-Core Xeon X3220 2.4 Ghz/2x4MB (expensive) 1066FSB 2GB RAM ECC 500 GB SATA 7200 133 RPM
Server 2 (the cheapest): AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Dual Core 6 GB DDR2 RAM 2 x 750 GB SATA II
Server 3 (medium price): Core™2Duo 2x2,0 GHz 3 GB DDR2 RAM 2x320 GB SATA
I have a website where each page is around 200KB and uses a simple MySql db. Around how many pageviews would each of the servers above manage a day? They are all 100mbit dedicated. What server is the best choice.
I'm after a Linux shared hosting package with all the usuals: webalizer, php, mysql, phpmyadmin, subdomains, ftp accounts, that will give us a percentage when we refer a customer.
Basically every time we get a new client we'd like to get a little pay out for it.
We'd go for reliability over cost. Is anyone running anything like this?
soon my company will start selling VPS'S ... now question for all vps providers, what do you do when someone request chargeback for cPanel / directadmin license?
This company is going down hill as far as I am concerned. There are too many other options out there than to waste your time with this company. They used to be great... I have set-up 3 accounts with them and referred others there as well... I also have a web designer friend who uses them all the time is also becoming concerned. He also said that their security certificate is expired.
My problem is a large percentage of emails sent to me from various addresses are now rejected by their server and I am receiving phone calls from numerous people saying they can no longer email me. Onsmart refuses to address the issues and has been extremely rude and unhelpful. The error messages clearly say they are rejected by them.. go figure? They are not willing to help me with the problem and are at the point of ignoring me as well.
I switched hosts (did not have a choice) and I am now receiving flawless performance. Peter one of the Reps closed a chat window on me after replying with a rude comment and Sandy then came on with no greeting and took forever between replies. Personally I have done nothing wrong but unfortunately they do not feel that way. You get the feeling they sit around complaining about you when you have a problem. Here is the chat log right after being "hung up" on by Peter. Save yourself the hassle they are the most unreliable host I have ever dealt with and have the worst customer service.
Chat InformationPlease wait for a site operator to respond. Chat InformationYou are now chatting with 'Sandy' Sandy: hi (note there was a long pause here) myname: Hi there... I was in the middle of talking to Peter and then it said chat ended? Sandy: ok (even longer pause here) myname: I am sure you are getting frustrated with me but I am really trying to find out why I am receiving numerous calls ect why people cannot send emails to me? Sandy: Please hold while I check on it.. (they always say this and do nothing) myname: thanks Sandy: I've send email to xxxx@xxxx.com Sandy: and its deliverd properly Sandy: here are logs from server Sandy: 2007-11-14 13:29:58 removed for privacy myname: Thanks I realize that. I can send emails to myself aswell. But am not sure why all of a sudden people who regularly email me get these error messages along with new people. I know it is easy to blame them which I would love it if it was the case. myname: Do you know why it may be happening to them? Sandy: or our server IP address blocked in their network Sandy: so many reasons not to get emails myname: I know but honestly if you had an email address you have been using for almost a year and then 5+ of people you know say "hey I can no longer send you emails..." wouldn't you be concerned? I'm not trying to be difficult I really don't think this is their problem but just don't know what to do... myname: I haven't received your email yet either... myname: ok I just received your email... (like 5 minutes later) Sandy: did you check xxxx@.. myname: just got it Sandy: humm.. Sandy: ok myname: I understand this is a weird problem I am sorry. I am sure you feel that everything is working but I honestly don't believe it is. I appreciate your time but as of now my emails don't work all the time.... can you contact me if you find anything cause clearly this isn't going anywhere... myname: I think I may need to find another host if this persists.... see ya Sandy: did you check through webmail Sandy: ok myname: I tried that Sandy: ok myname: They werent there either myname: if you find out anything just let me know. thanks
near the end of the chat I was waiting minutes to receive a response... couldn't help but feel they were trying to get me to close the window.
Something happened to me lately that forced me to think about this (please note, I am not a host): I noticed an unauthorized charge to my credit card by a shady online company that I probably should have never done business with in the first place.
I did a whois, and got their host information, IP, etc. And I was wondering what the procedure normally is for informing hosting companies about fraudulent clients.
Furthermore, what steps do hosts take to insure that frauds do not scam others as well. If I submit enough evidence to them, can they take any action?
