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Fasthosts and unlimited bandwidth

Paul Neave

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

I've seen a lot of advertising lately for unlimited bandwidth from
Fasthosts:

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicate...ited-bandwidth/

What does everyone reckon? I'm looking for a server that does not give
me huge bandwidth bills, and having 'unlimited' bandwidth seems to be
an ideal solution.

I have a site that shifts close to 500GB/mo, and in the future I can
see it easily topping 1TB/mo and more, mainly because of the amount of
traffic and network transfer rather than huge files being downloaded.

I'd be happy to sacrifice a little speed, but I'm wary that a lot of
hosts advertise unlimited bandwidth and yet won't be able to cope with
a high traffic website. And I'm on a tight budget of $250/mo or
less...

Any advice?
Thanks buckets,
Paul.

Charles Sweeney

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

Paul Neave wrote

> I've seen a lot of advertising lately for unlimited bandwidth from
> Fasthosts:
>
> http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicate...ited-bandwidth/
>
> What does everyone reckon? I'm looking for a server that does not
give
> me huge bandwidth bills, and having 'unlimited' bandwidth seems to be
> an ideal solution.

They are providing a "Virtual data pipe". The standard server rental
gives 512kbps, rising to 10240kbps for an additional £570 per month.

Effectively what they are selling is the speed of the connection, with
no limit on the amount of data that can be transferred. You would need
to work out how long it would take for your data transfer. If you say
speed is not an issue, then the basic offering might work for you.

They also have the option of buying transfer by the amount, and at the
usual astronomical UK rate of £10 per 10GB.

A couple of points.

If you have Dollars to spend, you will get much better value in the US.

When I was with them, I found their service to be terrible, and many
others have said the same thing.

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Geoff Berrow

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

Message-ID: <Xns97B28CE1B5F6Cmecharlessweeneycom@130.133.1.4> from
Charles Sweeney contained the following:

>When I was with them, I found their service to be terrible, and many
>others have said the same thing.

They have a habit of changing things and not letting customers know.
First it was in the way they handled image uploads. Then they recently
changed the way they handle PHP mail scripts with a result that scripts
were silently broken. A friend of mine has a Fasthosts reseller account
and the only way he knew about this was when a client asked why he was
no longer getting mail. Totally unacceptable.
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Martin Harran

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

"Paul Neave" <paul.neave@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1146140941.421292.282370@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I've seen a lot of advertising lately for unlimited bandwidth from
> Fasthosts:
>
> http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicate...ited-bandwidth/
>
> What does everyone reckon? I'm looking for a server that does not give
> me huge bandwidth bills, and having 'unlimited' bandwidth seems to be
> an ideal solution.

Charles' advice about looking at the USA is good.

I use www.sagonet.com and have found them very good to deal with. Their
entry level packages (which is what I have) are around $100 pm and give you
10Mbps connection, 1250GB bandwidth; around $150 gets you 1500 GB, if you
can stretch to $289 you get a Dual 2.8Ghz XEON with 2000Gb bandwidth;
excess bandwidth is charged at 40c/Gb, about 30% of what you'll pay in the
UK..

They used to offer unmetered but from a quick glance those are no longer on
their website, might be worth an email to them as they are easy to talk to.

"SpaceGirl" took out a *serious* package with them a while back, she was
very pleased with them at the start, dunno how she has found them since but
haven't herad her complaining :)

Charles Sweeney

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

Martin Harran wrote

> I use www.sagonet.com and have found them very good to deal with.
> Their entry level packages (which is what I have) are around $100 pm
> and give you 10Mbps connection, 1250GB bandwidth; around $150 gets you
> 1500 GB, if you can stretch to $289 you get a Dual 2.8Ghz XEON with
> 2000Gb bandwidth; excess bandwidth is charged at 40c/Gb, about 30% of
> what you'll pay in the UK..
>
> They used to offer unmetered but from a quick glance those are no
> longer on their website, might be worth an email to them as they are
> easy to talk to.
>
> "SpaceGirl" took out a *serious* package with them a while back, she
> was very pleased with them at the start, dunno how she has found them
> since but haven't herad her complaining :)

I'm with servermatrix.com, extremely pleased with them. No reliability
issues to speak of, and good customer service.

I'm in the UK. Paying in Dollars gives me the benefit of the exchange
rate.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Paul Neave

2006-04-27, 10:57 pm

Brilliant, thanks for the great advice -- both sagonet.com and
servermatrix.com look good. I'm UK-based so it makes sense to make the
most of the $ - =A3 exchange rate.

I've seen a lot of advertising for 1&1 offering unmetered bandwidth
too, but I've also heard their service is poor so I think I'll steer
clear.

Paul.