Re: [cobalt-users] UK2.NET & DNS

["Tom Worley" <tworley@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Well, any business that has profitability as a goal has to make its money
> somewhere.  uk2.net charges a very low prepaid hosting fee.  At £29 a
month for
> a dedicated server one has to wonder how they can turn a profit.

They charge £1220 upfront for 3 years, not £29/month.

>  If they didn't
> charge the DNS Management fees and whatever other fees they charge they'd
have
> to raise their monthly rate.

Well I'm not paying for their DNS management, as I'm using another registrar
(ukreg.com) to register my raq as a name server and use my raq as the name
server for all my other domains that aren't on uk2.net.
They also bought 1000 Raq3s at a very large discount, and (as far as I know)
you can buy raqs for less than £1000 direct from cobalt. Well they must be
making quite a lot on a bulk order that size. Also, we get 5Gbyte/month
bandwidth, so we have to pay £6.99 per GB on top of that (and I will
definately go over that soon)

> I know nothing about the level and quality of service they provide, but I
do know they have to charge several
> magnitudes higher than £29 a month for dedicated hosting to turn a profit
or they have to
> generate revenue from other fees or other revenue streams (support,
development,
> etc.).

Right, well for £1220 you get no support at all. No phone support, and
you'll be VERY lucky to get email support from them, which is why I setup
www.uk2raq.com for all the people who bought raq3s with them, as we're all
having exactly the same problems...

Having said all that, of course, the deal is very good, and my raq is
performing very well, and I'm not complaining about anything other than the
prices to change the name server entries to my own name servers so that I
can host my domain names that I have bought with uk2.net on my raq3.
Basically, I can't host any of my domains (50+) that I have with uk2.net
without spending more money on getting the name servers changed.
I'm not asking them to use their own name servers, I want to use mine! And
ALL of the other registrars I use will do this for free (ukreg.com
easyspace.com easily.co.uk etc...). I already have 5 domains hosted, all
bought from easyspace or ukreg as I can change which name server the domain
uses for free.
Tom
http://www.uk2raq.com