I'm Not Trying To Rock The Boat

[Poppet25]

How come these people can do this package so cheap?

Core i5 750 Quad Core Dedicated Server

» Operating System: CentOS - 64-BIT
» Control Panel: cPanel/WHM $19.95 USD
» Control Panel Add-On: None
» Bandwidth: 4000GB/Month
» RAM/Memory: 8GB DDR2
» IP Addresses (Base Allocation): 5
» Additional IP Addresses (Justification Required): None
» Primary Hard Drive: 146GB SCSI $10.00 USD
» Management: Full (ONLY w/ Linux & Control Panel)
» RAID - (Requires Additional Hard Drives, All of Same Size, To Be Ordered): Hardware Based - RAID 1 $19.95 USD
» 2nd Hard Drive: 146GB SCSI $25.00 USD
» 3rd Hard Drive: None
» 4th Hard Drive: None
» 5th Hard Drive: None
» External Backup Storage - (FTP/SSH/RSYNC/VPN/MAPPED):
50GB $9.95 USD +$14.95 set up charge.
» Firewall Security Service - (Hardware Based): None
» Remote Reboot Port - (Web Interface to Power Cycle Server Remotely): None
» Remote KVM Service - (Web Interface to Console Server Remotely): None
» Private LAN Port - (Additional LAN Port to Privately Connect Servers): None
» DDOS Protection Service - (Hardware Based): Network Level

For $259.75 which equates to £158.89. How do they do it and give the support that you do? Perhaps they don't but even so that's a good deal server wise.

I would love that sort of drive setup and extra ram but I would expect to pay an awful lot extra for it.

I'm not even thinking of moving, I was just checking prices out. Our site needs a hosting company that we can trust, and you, as a hosting company are the best we have ever had.

I suppose the grass looks greener and all that nonsense doh

You can delete this if you want.

[eUKhost.com]

Hi John,

Core i5 CPU's are really cheap CPU's and Intel has launched these to end AMD's market share completely. There's not much information on web to find out how good these i5 CPU's are against the new Intel Nehalem CPU's, but we should be able to get some information within a month or 2.

We are offering similar servers for less than £150 per month and we should be able to do same specification for almost £140 from next month onwards.

You are most welcome to PM me next month.

[Poppet25]

Thanks for the reply, that would be brilliant to upgrade to that sort of setup

[coppercreative]

..don't make the mistake to go for cheap US hosting, even US hosting that is supposed to have UK data centers

everything's fine and dandy until something goes wrong... like when they do scheduled maintenance that happens to be right in the middle of our business day!!!

or the best was when they screwed up the billing and a live chat session at 8am calmly tells me that no-one is in the office to sort it for another 8 hours

the great support you get from EUK is worth its weight in gold

Gary

[Rock]

Originally Posted by coppercreative

..don't make the mistake to go for cheap US hosting, even US hosting that is supposed to have UK data centers

everything's fine and dandy until something goes wrong... like when they do scheduled maintenance that happens to be right in the middle of our business day!!!

or the best was when they screwed up the billing and a live chat session at 8am calmly tells me that no-one is in the office to sort it for another 8 hours

the great support you get from EUK is worth its weight in gold

Gary

Hi Gary,

Thank you very much for your kind & solacing words of support..

The efficient time you've spent in writing this & that too on a weekend wont be of a waste for sure.. truly appreciated..

While it may be tempting to choose the cheapest web host in an other continent, the risk of downtime combined with lower quality service are not worth the few dollars a year you might save.. The ranking & indexing of your site might lapse due to such negligence in choosing an appropriate web host.

There are several other web hosting companies, which offer cheapest web hosting services;or seem to;but let me make one point clear, the cheapest appearing web hosting companies aren't always the best cheap web hosting providers. Reliability or availability of your website & excellent customer service are the main elements of a good web hosting company. In order to deliver cheap web hosting, many hosting companies use old & unreliable servers/hardware, offer little to no customer support at all, & then limit the amount of hardware resources which is supposed to be allotted to a normal account (bandwidth + disk space, etc).

These common cost-cutting measures applied by ultra cheap web hosting companies can lead into innumerable vexations & unnecessary & unwarranted downtime that can cost you more than the $1 or $2 a month in savings that their hosting plans provide.

Your say on the web hosting services provided by Eukhost is absolutely true. We strive hard & focus on our main concern of providing reliable web hosting services with quality customer service, as these are the most crucial elements or factors of any good web hosting company..

Wish you a joyful festival & happiest holidays followed by a wonderful new year