X13 - or - when is it too good to be true?

**Gwaihir** · 07-08-2005, 06:07 PM

Last year, based on a commercial on a internet radio station I checked out the site of another host (which I won't name). It looked just as sleek as Jaguar's and the base offer looked amazing: 5.95 / month for payment per 6 months gets you 10GB of space and 200GB of bandwith, well beyond what jag offers for 8.95 / month. WTF?

It came with all the usual too: 99,9% uptime guarantee, 30 day money back guarantee, etc.

It just seemed to good to be true, so I got quite suspicious, but I had to look quite deep and long to find my suspicions confirmed. Eventually I found absolutely zero backing to their guarantees - so what makes it a guarantee then? - and a very fishy small print about the 30 days satisfaction guarantee. Then I searched a bit broader on webhostingtalk and found them evaluated very negatively indeed.

However, as I stated, I had to look pretty darn deep to form this opinion. I dunno what exactly peeked my interest, perhaps I had nothing better to do that night. I like to think of myself as thorough, but normally if I were out "shopping" even I wouldn't look that in depth at such an offering but just dismiss it out off hand. This raises the question: is JAGs base package, the Gigadeal X5, starting to border on that "to good to be true" area by now, which would could cause potential customers to just skip to the next advertisement thinking, "yeah sure

"?

I am in no position to answer, as I already know that this offer is for real and haven't been seriously out host shopping in a good while, but I was wondering, so I thought I'd raise i here.

**kiwi li** · 07-08-2005, 06:13 PM

I thought the same thing.. but this is what I used so far... ^^;; I need to really put up a website again. ^^;;

Maybe everyone's like me and they haven't used up any webspace or transfer data... o.O

**the_ancient** · 07-08-2005, 06:41 PM

it is just extreme overselling, I am sure the vast majority of the people under the X5 deal dont even come close to using up their allotments under the orginal Gigadeal

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 07-08-2005, 11:20 PM

I dunno.. I guess I'm on a secret plan or something. I'm not complaining though...

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 07-08-2005, 11:25 PM

I just read this one the "hosting" page.

Celebrate years of rock solid reliable hosting with us with one of our new plans. Our shared hosting plans are powered by our premium bandwidth, hardware, and one of kind JaguarPc HostGui. All plans are packed with unbelievable features that go above and beyond typical web hosting!

HostGui, eh? Does that mean "our skin for cPanel" or "our custom control panel that was suppose to arrive quite sometime in the past but never did"?

**JPC-Greg** · 07-09-2005, 09:00 PM

Well for us its about price point and yes sure there is a level of overselling but actually not to the degree your probably thinking. In fact we welcome all the clients to use their space, we'll buy more drives

. The most recent servers we brought online have 1.2 TB of raid storage.... 1.2Terabytes per server. We're prepared to make good on our offers.

We need to keep our price point on jaguar where it is and always has been. To do this with ever increasing competition and lower hardware prices we have to offer more features. We don't want to drop our avg price per ticket, hence part of the reason we removed the 2yr plans with this increase.

**JPC-Greg** · 07-09-2005, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Rye Seronie Oh

I dunno.. I guess I'm on a secret plan or something. I'm not complaining though...

Thats a known quota problem with cpanel and really linux in general that causes the unlimited setting. Don't worry when we see a large series of files or diskspace being used you would be contacted. Btw, you really should be upgraded plan wise, open a ticket with sales to get all fixed up.

**JPC-Greg** · 07-09-2005, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Rye Seronie Oh

I just read this one the "hosting" page.

HostGui, eh? Does that mean "our skin for cPanel" or "our custom control panel that was suppose to arrive quite sometime in the past but never did"?

Hostgui name lives in a series of projects and yes they are starting to roll out sequentially. I'll elaborate on that in a bit .

**Defender** · 07-12-2005, 01:44 PM

Ya, mines screwed up too.
Says I'm using none & have unlimited.

The v200 plan still around? What were the limits?

**JPC-Greg** · 07-12-2005, 03:29 PM

No the v200 isnt around any longer as an available new plan but there are still some clients on it. It has 300mb disk, 15gig b/w

**Defender** · 07-14-2005, 11:34 AM

So a ticket asking for an upgrade is all it takes to get on the new plans?

**kiwi li** · 07-14-2005, 11:44 AM

Yup... all you have to do is send in a ticket and they'll help you out. ^_^ I think I upgraded... three times now? ^^;;;;;

**Gwaihir** · 07-14-2005, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Defender

So a ticket asking for an upgrade is all it takes to get on the new plans?

And if you have shell access (SSH), then send a ticket to support asking to switch it on again right after you're upgraded. Upgrading usually causes that to be switched of automatically (or is that of the past now?).