Does anyone have experiences of what Poundhost are like to co-locate with?
Are they pretty friendly and fulfilling to your requests? Just wanting some general opinions of what they're like in the ways of co-location. I know their network is pretty solid but I've never co-located.
Wanting to offer some services within the UK but considering I live here myself I was thinking of co-locating rather than renting a server. Always wanted to but a lot easier to do so within the UK rather than the US!
I have never done co-location before and I am very interested in it. Although a fair amount of my questions could be asked to PoundHost I preferred to ask here as I can get opinions too and more elaborate information probably. So if anybody wants to reply with some help, please do!
I am currently looking at Quater Rack Space (10U) at the following URL [url]
The first issue is a switch. The site states "1 x 100Mbit CAT 5 Feed" - I assume I would need to install a switch to share this connection between my servers, what sort of switches am I looking at here - do you have recommendations?
Another issue is power. Is there any typical number of servers I could put online with 3A, as well as my switch? I've actually been looking at buying servers from the USA and having them shipped to me (at [url]). The systems I'm looking at are the Core2Duos (SATA Enterprise and SATA cost effective at the moment). What custom build places would you recommend in the UK? If I did want to increase my power allocation, can PoundHost do this for me?
I was also after some opinions of PoundHost as a company - anyone have experience with their colo? A question I should really ask directly to them, but maybe people already know here: Are they able to increase my IP Address allocation? Can they increase my bandwidth to say, 20Mbit as required?
Are there any other UK colo that can compete with these prices for rack space?
How would their connectivity be to the USA? With my current setup, most of my dedicated servers are in the USA. To people here in Europe connection is fine to the USA. I'm just wondering how this would work in return from the connectivity of BlueSquare.
I was wondering about remote reboots. If I wanted to be able to make my own hard remote reboots instantly, can the likes of APC remote reboot switches be installed into my 10U space? The main problem really is my understanding of power distribution in a data center and how power is fed to my space.
Again - I'm grateful for any replies, feedback or recommendations because I want to ensure I start with a good service and a good company.
This morning BlueSquare/Poundhost sent out an email to all their customers, announcing a special deal to all current customers, that sounds great right? Sure, except the CC'd instead of BCC'd all of their clients in on the email.
Since then everyone who's email address stards with anything up to the letter B - around 100-110 addresses - received an email containing the ****** image with the message
Followed by this from BlueSquare:
Quote:
Earlier today an email was sent out to all customers providing details on a dedicated server special offer. Unfortunately this email was sent out using the CC field and not the BCC field. This was not a breach of security, but a genuine mistake on the part of the sender who was not aware of what had happened until the email had been sent, and as such the sender has been suitably reprimanded.
We realise the seriousness of this error and have now taken automatic steps to ensure this cannot happen again by limiting the maximum recipients on our outgoing mail server to a small number, as well as updating and limiting staff on the use of the mail list system.
We are aware that some of our more unscrupulous competitors may have already obtained a copy of this email list and may contact you in due course. If you do receive an unsolicited email, to reduce further unwanted spam, please use the unsubscribe option which they are legally obliged to include.
I used to have hosting with Tagadab, who use the clara.net network, which I used to get timeouts for about 10 minutes every 5-6 hours, so I moved to iFuse hosting (in BlueSquare house), where I get exactly the same issue. My ISP is NTL/Virgin Media.
Is London Hosting Centre in any way connected to BlueSquare 1, 2 or 3 in connection terms, for example with BlueSquare went down would London Hosting Centre still be up etc...
from 2008-6-3 to 2008-6-9,bad speed. I am not sure it's PoundHost's Issues.but now normally.
another thing make me crazy.
maybe start from 2008-6-10, my server can't access . because IP conflict. then remove these IPs(92.48.119.2-5) from my server. and re-assigned me another IPs.
first 4 Ips, can't bind.
some hour later, re-assigned me another 3 IPs.
still can't use. because these IPs also assgined to another servers.
just again another 3IPs again(3rd.)
uk's IP so expensive need some servers shared a IP? or PoundHost?.
until now, still not resolved. a little problem take more than 12 hours.
this is my worst server rent experience.
SoftLayer never like this,DediwebHosting and qala never like this.
before order,I ask poundhost's sale, he said can provide 64 and 128 IPs, so,I create a order at 2008-10-11, 10-15 server ready, I ask them,but in this time, they said only provide 10 IPs,max 16IP. I used it for vpn applications,no have enough IPs,can't do it. so poundhost said can cancel the server. I never use this server,but poundhost still no refundment, I send mail to them,no any responses, ......
I was really bored with LINX problems at England and my current UK provider's (xx company) bad customer support, I started to look for another provider at EU. I know LINX is used nearly all England providers but the problem was only with 1 switch of them. Anyways..
While visiting wht pages unhappily with hope of finding a good provider and sending them mails which I've founded, days passed with no luck.. After a few days I've mailled poundhost ( www.poundhost.co.uk ) and they've returned me in 5 or 10 minutes not sure while I was hopping to see a reply tomorrow or next week which we saw at other providers
Matthew, answered my all questions carefully and gave me whatever I want. I didn't have too many servers but he replied me as I was planning to move 50-60 servers to them I was very happy that I couldn't stop asking whatever I wanted to know to him and got my replies again carefully and they were handled professionally.
Now he gave me some VERY special deal and I am using them at this time! Personally, working with nearly all UK and DE providers, I never saw faster reply time for mails and tickets sometimes you get reply before clicking another link If you really want to feel special, go with PoundHost!
Shortly; PoundHost? - Best EU provider that I saw in my 6 years IT life..
Im currently with poundhost i have some colo servers with them
they have gone down 3 times over the last week 2 DDOS attacks and 1 router/exchange issue
I called them up and they reckon they get 1 DDOS some weeks, and other weeks have none
However, when another server is getting a DDOS attack, i dont want my server to go down. I take it the network pipe is being flooded, and thats why websites stop responding.?
so i called rapid switch, they reckon if they get a DDOS attack, it just takes down the one server, and not everyones elses
They have been exceptional for me. Not a second of downtime that wasn't my fault so far.
They offer OS reinstalls instantly for 30 quid or free with a 12 hour wait. This comes into play about two paragraphs down.
I had it originally loaded with Windows, because I was planning on playing around with some ASP. They gave me the server with a default password of something that you all pretty much would guess on the first try and RDP open to the world: when I got it, it was already heavily infected. OS reload took less than half an hour. Played with it for half a month, ASP got boring. FreeBSD time. Speedtests easily went over 100mbps (looks like each host is a gigabit/dual gigabit), it wasn't an overloaded node; always fast.
They don't officially support FreeBSD - it's not listed anywhere, and they don't support it. However, since it's ESX, I decided to ask if they could do a custom ISO and chose the free next-business-day install. They did it in less than one hour, and helped me troubleshoot when it went down (typoed something, user error) (this is 100% unmanaged too).
So far, they've been great. Tons of bandwidth, you can actually use it, non overloaded nodes, disk i/o has NEVER been a problem.
Another thing is fast ticket replies. On average, I see tickets answered in less than one or two minutes. No canned responses, always helpful. Almost all of my tickets were at obscene times - probably 3-5am their time. Responses were prompt and clueful.
Keep in mind this only costs ~$30/m USD - they have seriously dealt with a lot of my crap that they didn't have to, and I commend them for that. Support: 10/10 Network: 10/10 Hilarity: 10/10 (deploying unpatched 2003STD with internet-facing remote desktop and generic/not randomly generated admin password) Value: 100/10 (512MB + free Windows + free OS reloads + 2.5TB bw) Reported hosted IP to mods.
Is anybody able to get me in touch with Poundhost ? We can't seem to log on to the customer portal - and nobody are answering the phones there. Our server has been down for almost an hour now - I need somebody done immediately.
I'm currently a Poundhost customer and have been very happy with the service - my server has never been down yet and i've never had to contact them since setting the server up - it just works.
However, i've recently been offered a much better deal from Rapidswitch - a better server for quite a bit cheaper which as a personal customer with no budget makes a big difference.
I did think twice about moving from a provider I was happy with but have heard good things about Rapidswitch and their control panel is much better.
However, since placing my order it seems all they've had is network problems - they were completely down for hours last night, have had problems all day and are now down again. To boot, they said my server would be built in 24hrs and probably less but it's now nearly 30hrs and hasn't been built yet.
I'm really surprised and shocked that such a big provider with a good reputation has a single point of failure like this and doesn't have redundancy built in as well as hot swap spares and even spares from another provider.
It also seems their site and phone system are on the same backbone so that all went down too (and seems their monitoring is within their network so that doesn't register most of the outages).
Have I made a terrible mistake and this is the new Rapidswitch now it's been bought out or do you think it's just a bad week and they will get themselves sorted out and will return to 100% uptime?
experience with connexions4london as an IP transit provider. We are looking for dual 100Mbit (commit) connectivity in Telehouse East and their pricing and response time on the quote was very good.
Any feedback on their tech support and network will be greatly appreciated. Any other options (good network/price)
They are sure running some great specials right now but sometimes things aren't as good as they seem. Any experiences from people especially on their management services & such from users who have had them (or used to have them) for some period of time (not brand new or short-time users--- unless the short time was due to very bad experiences from the start).
And please-no "secret reps" telling me how great you are, would like some actual user experiences. Have been very happy with the same provider for over 6 years but their pricing is not reflecting the current trends in server technology & I'm growing tired of "negotiating" (old tech at new tech prices) so I've been looking for some options for the first time in years.
High-end users preferred (quads-dual quads etc.) but mainly want to know if they live up to their management & security promises (response times SLA, tech knowledge, etc. for "fully managed".
I would be interested in hearing thoughts on your experiences with Installatron. Is the availability of this something that you put a lot of value in when choosing a hosting provider?
A few month ago I needed some Windows VPS server and checked out WHT.
Apparently some folks recommended VPSLand and I thought it would be a good choice. Well after a few weeks with them I decided to move to another firm, because their Support is worse then I have ever seen with any hosting company.
It takes days to get an answer and in one occasion i even had to cancel the server since they couldn't get it to work again
Then yesterday one server went offline and after waiting a half day on support I received an email telling me that the server was online since months.
Then the hit today was that they just shut down one of the server cause he would use to much CPU
The thing which puzzles me is that they shut it down without notice and have me, the client, figuring out why i can't login
Long story short. I will move all my server to another company and can only recommend you to stay away from those guys.
I'm a longtime lurker and finally decided to register today. This place has been great for hosting info., etc.
I've been piggybacking on a friend's Mosso hosting account for about six months. That is, I pay a % of the $100 full-account price, as I haven't needed the full allotment of space, bandwidth, etc.
While I like Mosso and especially the simple control panel, etc., it seems like they've had a tough run of stability problems lately. Other than a couple instances of my site taking a few seconds to load, I haven't been impacted myself (that I can tell).
HOWEVER, I've noticed Mosso very recently has changed the format of their Status blog by eliminating the archives and only showing the latest post or two. This tells me Mosso is concerned with the number and length of outages they've had lately, as it's no longer possible to review recent downtime issues as it was for most of the past few years. (I was watching Mosso long before switching to their hosting.)
Further, maybe I'm just paranoid, and it seems like others would be complaining if it's true, but lately I've suspected some email is going AWOL. There have been several instances lately when I've checked my email after a day or two and noticed 10- and 12-hour gaps with no emails (not even spam). I've also had weird stretches where I've sent emails to a dozen people but only received replies from half of them. (These are friends and business associates; people from whom I'd expect a 95% reply rate.)
After a lot of comments, and especially complaints, on this board over the past couple years, it seems like Mosso rarely comes up here anymore, which seems like it should be a good thing. I'm curious if others here have had recent experience with Mosso and, if so, if they've had any problems.
This thread is mostly for me to keep track of how things go with this host and hopefully to benefit any others that might be thinking of hosting with them in the future.
I'm going to try and keep my interactions with this host updated here over time.
04/22/08
Posted a pre-sales question in their forum, answer received 58 minutes later. (Good sign, but presales/sales generally have fast response times)
3:30pm
Decided to give them a shot, ordered the following package (some upgrades from the default package).
Hosted Domains: Unlimited $0.00 Disk Space (Upgradable): 3,000 MB $0.00 Bandwidth (Upgradable): 30,000 MB $0.00 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Databases (Upgradable): 3 Databases $1.75 MySQL 5 Databases (Upgradable): 5 Databases $2.00 ASP.NET: ASP.NET v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, v3.5 + ASP.NET AJAX $0.00 ASP Classic: ASP Classic Version 3.0 $0.00 PHP: PHP Version 5.2.X $0.00 Sub-Domains (Upgradable): 10 Sub Domains $0.90 Domain Aliases / Pointers (Upgradable): 1 Domain Alias $0.00 E-mail Inboxes/Addresses with POP3 + IMAP4 Support (Upgradable): 5 E-mail Addresses + 5 Free E-mail Aliases $0.00 Mailing Lists (Upgradable): 1 Mailing List $0.00 Mailing List Size (Upgradable): 10 Contacts $0.00 FTP Accounts : Unlimited FTP Accounts $0.00 Statistics: Unlimited Domains Site Statistics using SmarterStats $0.00 Virtual/Application Directories: Unlimited Virtual Directories $0.00 Secure/Password Protected Folders: Unlimited Secure Folders $0.00 Dedicated Application Pool/Process: Yes, For Each Hosted Domain $0.00 Web Data Manager for MS SQL Server 2005: Yes, Includes Backup and Restore Tools $0.00 Remote Connections Enabled for SQL Server: Yes, Using SQL Server Management Studio 2005 $0.00 PhpMyAdmin for MySQL 5: Yes, Includes Backup and Restore Tools $0.00 Additional Components: ASPUpload, ASPJPEG, and ASPE-mail $0.00 Webmail System: Latest Version of SmarterMail $0.00 Automatic Customer Billing: Yes, With Multiple Payment Gateways $0.00
Confirmation page says my site will be setup within 24 hours. Not promising as far as auto provisioning goes.
3:35pm
Checked my email for order confirmation. I'm happy to see my site has already been provisioned! The email states that it might take longer (up to the previously mentioned 24 hours) for some of the upgraded items to take affect, I'm ok with this.
The email also contains all of the information I need to get things going, IPs, URLs, etc.
Does anyone have any experience with them? I am deciding whether or not I am going to get hosting from them. If anyone can recommend anything else I only need these. About 1GB of space and maybe 10-20gb of bandwidth. It will mostly be for photography but later on in the year I will have to host some songs and approx 50 people will be downloading 10 songs each.
Can anyone let me know their opinions on Voxel/Voxrox?
I am specifically interested in hearing from people who have direct experience with them, not just "I've heard they're really good". Have you experienced many outages and how is support for you?
Please also mention whether you have used / are using their managed or unmanaged option.
I have used the search but it's rarely clear whether people are using the managed or unmanaged service when they give their opinions.
