Re: FN-FORUM: Dedicated Servers - Linux

date posted 1st July 2003 15:40

On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 3:24 pm, George Hazlewood wrote:
> I've narrowed it down to http://rackshack.net who are in the US. They seem
> to have the ludicrous amount of 70GB per month of bandwidth (I'm using just
> under 10GB at the moment), all the other bits and bobs with them also seem
> to fit what I need. I can save a considerable amount of dosh per year by
> moving which is a big incentive.

We have moved to RackShack and are saving a bundle of cash. We push out about
300 gigs a month and we were paying about $2 a gig before which is much
cheaper than the UK but was still costing us more than what we are paying at
the moment. Gone are the crazy days when SportNetwork was costing us £800 a
month in bandwidth....

> 1) Anyone got any experiences with RackShack, good or bad?

Yup, I have a Dual Xeon with them and its fast as hell. I would seriously
recomend them. Open Suport forums too so if they have problems the whole
world knows about it. Test out download speeds if you like
http://www.sportnetwork.net. I have a copy of phpmyadmin in the web dir if
you want a file to try:
http://www.sportnetwork.net/phpMyAdmin-2.5.0-php.tar.gz

We have never had such a fast connection even when we were based in the UK.
Some pages that were taking 30+ seconds to download are now taking 3.

> 2) Am I likely to run into problems with SEO and becoming unloved by
> Google UK with the various sites if I move servers across the atlantic?

I think I have figured out that if you register the Domain with a UK company
you will be fine. The company I origninaly registered the domain with used a
US company which has screwed our UK SEO but I have had other domains pointing
to the rackshack server come up in a UK search. See: http://tinyurl.com/fqca
but SportNetwork.net doesn't...:-(

I would post a message on the forums at rackshack. They have loads of UK
customers who will be able to prove it a bit better than I:
http://forum.rackshack.net

HTH
John