I have a fully managed dedicated server on hostdime.com, currently hosting a very popular auto blog on Brazil, using Wordpress and with around 25.000 unique visitors per day.
I would like to know if the price i am paying (US$ 345.00) per month seems fair and correct.
The initial price was US$ 250.00, but i have added a second drive and 2 GB of RAM, ending up with this configuration:
Processor: 2 x Dual Intel Xeon Woodcrest 1.8GHz 4M L2 Cache
Memory: 4096 MB DDR (upgradable to 12GB)
Hard Drive 1: 250 Gigabyte SATA (7200 RPM)
Hard Drive 2: 120 Gigabyte SATA (7200 RPM)
Monthly Bandwidth: 2000 Gigabytes
IP Addresses: 4
Uplink Speed: 100 Mbit/s
Cpanel
Fantastico License: Free w/Cpanel License
Enom Domain Reseller: Free
Full Root Access: Included
Pre installed Services: Included [View List]
24x7 Server Monitoring: Included [View what's included]
100% Managed Server Included [Info on services]
99.5% uptime SLA: Included [View SLA]
I often sees that when a buyer want to buy something or hire someone, they will be asked to deposited certain amount prior to the work started. I know that this is one way of insurance against scammers and fraud and I have no problem with that.
BUT, what about the buyers? What if they committed to hire a company, given a timeline and when the time comes, the work is still long way to finish or worst, getting a full refund just because the provider decided that they can't deliver the results as promised.
Let's say a buyer hire a company to do custom work. I am pretty much sure that he will not hire another developer as a backup in case the work he's currently outsourced failed. BUT, what if the developer decide to backed out from the deal? What will happened to the buyer's time? He will have to start searching for someone else and start over again. So, by the time he got the job done, he already wasted huge amount of time.
So, I think it would be fair to both parties that a provider should place a TOS stating what will they do if they decided to back off from an ongoing deal.
Yes, this rant came from disatisfaction of my recent fallen deal. I am now way behind my schedule. This is me sharing what I felt right now and no pun intended.
HostDime - USA and UK su...! The situation as follows. We’ve agreed with the Hostdime owner Manny that we take a server, and from time to time a script will work on it* - sending messages to Wiki. We have agreed that if there are any displeased owners, their resources would be dropped from the database not to make any inconveniences. For what* Manny answered *“yes, yes, no problem” and gave us configurations published in the forum. The server wasn’t cheap – approximately $255.00. In half a month we received the second abuse. We said that we have deleted the resource and won’t bother the owner anymore. HostDime shut down the server and said the owner had approved that. Manny doesn’t answer our emails for some reasons…
The summary: they want to receive your money but they can’t render the full service. They don’t keep their word.*By the way, we haven’t even disturbed their support service as for the server, because we didn’t need the full technical support but we paid more to work quietly.
I have read numerous reviews about hosting providers, and think that HostGator (either hatchling or baby) plans suit my needs. However I have a couple of questions:
1) As I'm based in the UK, is it going to be more expensive to pay for hosting that is based in the US? (I don't mean caused by exchange rate changes...I'm happy with their charges)
2) Is there a better way to pay i.e. monthly/annually or via debit card, credit card or paypal? (are there any conversion charges etc.)
Ideally I'd like someone who is paying for US hosting from the UK (with Hostgator if possible) to tell me how they do it and why they chose to do it that way.
Been talking with Hostdime for quite awhile and just like every other company we find advertising "hard to believe deals" they do this because their service stinks. We pre-paid for ip's so that we could order additional servers without having to purchase individual ip's each time. Ordered a server using a promotion from here and it was deployed same day. Wasn't deployed with the ip's we paid for or working login information. So we have a server that we can't login to, isn't on the ip's we paid ahead of time for, and the 24/7 service they advertise doesn't exist. It's been at least 4 hours now since we submitted our ticket regarding these issues and nothing, so 24/7 is just an advertising word to HostDime, they aren't around 24/7 to resolve issues.
So before you do what I did and jump on board with one of these great deals, keep in mind they do NOT have the service the claim to have.
I ran across something the other day that made me think about things. A host is offering to give you a $3.00 credit on the next invoice if you post a review. They list the site and all, and I was wondering what you guys thought about that.
On one hand, offering a credit, taints the review, or makes it biased. On the other hand, I know how important reviews are for a host.
Personally, I think it would be ok to ask for reviews, but I don't think it's ok to offer a credit or money for it.
I run a web hosting company by colocating my servers with a local data center. I think I am paying too much.
Right now I am paying $500/month per 1 mbps average transfer.
I've been shopping around and found other providers in the area that offer $1 per MB. Figuring 350 MB per month = 1 mbps sustained, that would be $350/month for the same bandwidth.
What I don't understand is how so many reputable competing web hosting providers offer hosting packages with numbers like 2000 MB/month for $399!
How can they offer accounts with this much bandwidth? I could never do this at the colo prices I'm getting.
We are a game server company and we were looking for a dedicated box in Israel. We found HostDime Israel and talked with them via e-mail and chat and decided to go with them. They ordered a custom server for us and it was quick delivery.
The service and communication has been great. Reboots are pretty quick and the bandwidth has been good, no complaints from our customers who are very ping-dependent as you know. The server has been crashing a lot but I think its due to Win08 rather than the box. We seemed to have settled it down recently.
We've also used HostDime in the US to coordinate support and that has gone pretty well too. My only complaint is that they are billing me from the order date rather than the install date that was about a week later.
I am considering signing up for a very well-received host on this site and around the net. It is DowntownHost. They have a promotion right now where you can get 25% off for life. They have tiered plans. So you if you pay for 1, 2 or 3 years upfront, for example, you will be paying *a lot* less per month than if you paid just monthly. Add in this 25% off promotion, and you can see some big savings.
Now, for most hosts that you haven't tried, I would say no way commit your money for a year. But DowntownHost's reputation precedes them so well, this could be an exception.
Plus, they have a 90-day money back guarantee where you would get all your money back if you don't like the service.
So my thinking is that I should no whether or not I am going to stick with a host within 90 days. That is plenty of time. But, then again, your money is tied up for 1, 2 or 3 years after that 90 days, and if something goes wrong, you are up a creek without a paddle. Plus, I have heard (in general, not with DowntownHost specifically), that your support level could decrease after your trial period if you have paid for an extended plan because, well, they have your money, so what do they care.
how to contact hostdime's management? Because I can't get any answer that works for me from hostdime hosting and "no" answer from instantcpanellicense..
I am in a very bad situation now.. I did a special agreement with Hostdime's external cpanel seller brand instantcpanel and they don't reply my tickets since 5 days. I am not sure what to do.. My due date has arrived, I need to cancel some licenses, I need some new ones. Also they have removed my special promotional code without telling me!
I have 3 big problems will leave me in some legit sanctions but I am sure they don't care of me. I am willing to pay the problematic payments again Hostdime that's no problem.
I just had a quick question, I have been using dedicated servers for a long time now, and I was just looking to host one of my own 1U servers that I have been using at home, now I had a simple question, but it seems to confuse me on what exactly do I pay at the end of the month.
I have read about the 95th percentile billing, and paying for 1Mbps.
I usually had 1000GB with my servers, simple, easy.
All I need to know is if I get 1Mbps, can I not go over that 1Mbps while backing up files, or hosting a game server? or is it that I have a certain amount of bandwidth because this is really confusing me.
I'm thinking about selling an old machine I have, and I'm just wondering a ballpark figure on what it's worth if I decide to ebay it. I think I need to upgrade to a Dual Quad Xeon box for the project I'm about to undertake.
I had a client that can no longer afford a dedicated server hes paying for.
Hes been with me for 4 years so I offered to pay for a vps for him for a few months. He had the dedicated server split into 1 linux side and 1 windows side so im going to get 1 linux vps from fsckvps *2gb ram* now im looking for a windows vps that has similar prices as fsckvps because he was only paying 70 per month for the dedi server.
We are looking for a private suite, and we have got many offers, can someone tell me what are normal prices per square meter in regular data centers? Just a basic room, no hardware etc.
We received really strange offers and they flip from 400 dollar to over thousand dollar per square meter.
I am getting my quote back Tuesday but need a little bargaining power with these guys...
Oakland, Ca datacenter
40mbps, 20A, 42U rack.
What should I be looking at price range here, how much per mbps?
Only info I've seen is from 2003 where people were saying $200/mbps. Obviously prices have come WAY down. I've seen people on here reselling internap bandwidth for $12/mbps, but they might have bought a huge commit.
I was about to move from serverbeach to the planet when i noticed now they charge $15.oo more monthly for win 2003 when a couple of days ago it was free no promo or anything
and 89 dollars plus 25 for control panel and then 15 for windows and it's a celeron with not even a tb of bandwidth
