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Looking to Move from EV1?
IgD asks: "Our small company has been a customer of EV1 for well over a year. We have a single dedicated server (a Red Hat box) and pay about $150/month. We get about 400 gigabytes per month for our bandwidth limit. Up until the SCO fiasco, we had been generally pleased with EV1. For obvious reasons we decided to move on. We didn't make the decision lightly. Migrating our server is going to result in a terrible inconvenience. The subject of EV1 and SCO has been covered in multiple articles here on Slashdot. Many have discussed moving to other providers such as ServerMatrix.com and ServerBeach.com. Dear Slashdot, where should we take our business?"
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750GB transfer a month 1.8ghz Celeron just $99/month, no set up fee. I've been using them for a few months now, no problems.
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Granted, that (shill) Speakeasy (/shill) offers it....
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I may be self adversiting, but we offer excellent service and deals for people who want to have dedicated servers or have VPS server. So..give it a spin and I think you might like it.
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Plus, I work there as Head Tech and we have excellent crew there. Come on over.
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We moved to ServerMatrix.com after the EV1/SCO fiasco. :) So far so good. We're paying exactly what we were at EV1, but we get more bang for our buck -- including more bandwidth and a better processor.
They are very quick to respond to trouble tickets and their staff seems quite friendly. They even offer cross connects if you rent more than one server, which is something I don't believe EV1 ever did. We looked at ServerBeach, but they seem much more expensive and their support policy was a turn off.
I'm glad to see so many others are leaving EV1. To some it seems hasty, but at the end of the day it's just a matter of principle.
I recently moved from ServerMatrix's parent company, The Planet, because of their poor customer service and new billing software, which refused to take my credit card. Interland didn't have a problem with my card, and customer service has been great so far. They have "self-managed" servers for $69/mo, with 500 GB of transfer, running RH9. Cologuys was mentioned in a previous post for a colo solution, and I used to work for another company that had a cage in the same datacenter, Colo4Dallas, which isn't a bad site, but one of the main bandwidth providers for Colo4 is Cogent, which has had many complaints about the network reliability. Besides, if you're coloing a large number of machines, you'd probably be better off going straight to Colo4. Both The Planet and Colo4 are right off Stemmons Freeway (I-35) in Dallas, TX, as is the Infomart (warning, flash heavy site!), where The Planet started before they bought the old Inflow datacenter. They helpfully provide a listing of thier tenants, so you can possibly find a good deal going through the list.
I would strongly recommend against any of the DTI owned companies (affordablecolo.com, affordabledomain.net, affordableservers.net, or dtihosting.com), as I have worked with them in the past and witnessed the unplugging of live servers from power strips so they could be rearranged in a rack for the amusement of the one senior technician they had - the 21 year old owner. Webhostingtalk.com has many, many, stories from former customers of DTI - search for cbaker17, the owner's handle, to find them quickly. For that matter, I'd recommend researching any company you're looking into on WHT.
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I'm currently with serverbeach (have been basically since they started), they provide a good product, though one thing that I don't like is their inflexibility, if you need additional resources you can't get it.
As I will be needing this flexibility I will be moving to Server Matrix.
I had been looking at EV1 though clearly their decision lost me as a customer.
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