Your Dedicated Servers and HostGUI

[Pawel Kowalski]

Hi,
Will HostGUI be avalible with your dedicated servers? If yes will we be able to set up our own resellers? Also how many sites can the avarage dedicated server host?
Thank You,
Paul

[JPC-Greg]

Yes HostGUI will be available and free with our dedicated servers. You can setup resellers with HostGUI.

There is no answer for the client question though. It depends on the server specs, ram, cpu, and drives. It also depends on what types on sites you have on it. You could have just one super busy site on a server or a few hundred other sites. It depends on how many of your resources are free and so on. No two servers of ours have the same amount of clients on them.

[Pawel Kowalski]

Can you atleast give me an avarage, I would really appreciate it. I would be using the servers for $250 and would give my users everything you guys currently give.
Thank You,
Paul

[JPC-Greg]

Well it depends on how much resources the sites require that you put on a server. For a server that you could get for about $250 and to still keep sites as fast as they are on ours I would say from 1-150 sites . I have to say from 1 to 150 becuase its very possbile to have a single site need so much that it absorbs most of the servers resources. Even on our client servers (dual 1ghz, 2gig ram, scsi drives) we have had single sites so resource demanding that they can hang the server or simple drive the load up to 3 or 4 on average. After we get those sites moved around to other servers, smei-dedicated servers, or dedicated servers we notice an immediate drop to levels so low that we could potentially add quite a few more sites. We don't though just to be safe.

The biggest trick is just to closely monitor your servers to see how much of your resources are left at a given time. If you do not have a resource intensive site running then you could get 150 - 200 sites on a $250 server.

A server for $250 these days is far stronger than a $250 server you could have leased last year. Last year $250 would have gotten you a 400mhz, 128mb ram, 10 gig drive server. Now it will get you a 866mhz, 512RAM, 30g drive, and 50g traffic.

In summary, 200 is very very possbile and still allow sites to be fast and effective. You just have to admin the machine to make sure no one client gets carried away. There are tools that can help limit clients resource usage such as SuExec which is a feature of HostGUI when we manage to get it released.

Sorry this was so lengthy but quite a few people have been asking that same question so I though it would be a good one to expand on and give some reasoning to.

[Pawel Kowalski]

Thank you Jag I appreciate it. I am looking to expend my business farther and might just need a dedicated server. I hope I have enough money to go with you guys, I know a company that has great rates (I wont say who) but I dont know them well and I dont know the service they give (which is very important).
Thank You,
Paul

[JPC-Greg]

Well when it comes to a quality server at a great price not to mention great service you do not have to look any further than us.

Our packages start as follows:

PIII 866mhz
256MB RAM
20gig drive
25gig traffic ($3 per gig after that)
Free HostGUI control system
Free IP's
$195 setup/ $195 per month

or

PIII 866mhz
512MB RAM
30gig drive
50gig traffic ($3 per gig after that)
Free HostGUI control system
Free IP's
$250 setup/ $250 per month

and the packages go up from here, the complete will be online at DedicatedSpace.com this weekend.

[Pawel Kowalski]

Thanks Jag, one more question. The thing that really gets me are setup fees, is there any way to lower or drop the setup fee? The reason is I dont have $400 right of but Im pretty sure I could come up with $200. It's hard for a 16 year old to make that kind of money at $7 or 8 dollars an hour working only 10 hours a week.
Thank You,
Paul

[JPC-Greg]

We could but we would have to have a contract and since you are 16 we would have to have your parents sign since a 16 yr old can not legally enter into a binding contract.