Re: [cobalt-users] A Word About Cobaltracks.Com and Bandwidth Usage

["affordablewebsitesolutions.com" <ski@xxxxxxx>]

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> I have a low cost dedicated RaQ2, and yes you do get what you pay for! My
> service provider has lousy tech support (I do have a clue, and when I'm
> calling, I ask for something specific, but twice the guy at the other end
> has disagreed with me said something else was wrong (which it wasn't) but
> got quite rude about it. Soon shut up when I emailed him the evidence!)
>
> Their bandwidth is just great, and their reliability is good. In fact,
> because of their service, I can afford the dedicated system for my
personal
> use. There are few dedicated providers which charge a price I can justify
> for personal use of a CobaltRaQ.
>
> However, if I was running a business, I'd go with the higher price
> everything included handholding technical support types of dedicated
> hosting/colocation because it makes business sense - I'd want to be
> concentrating on my core business, not keeping a RaQ running and
connected.
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I agree, you get what you pay for....I have a 4i with 256 ram and it has a
10Mbps port to an ethernet hub with BGP4 and I tell you, it rips it
up.........but I pay extra for that....I use realvideo live...no charge for
upload....downloads of 25 streams at 26Kbps is 650Kbps so I am covered but
if the total transfer is used 100% of the time maxed out then
168,480,000,000MB of data is served up which blasts right through any 50gig
allotments....and this does not count pageloads and downloads, so having a
big port will allow more to go through when requested, but managing the
content will keep your transfer down....I shut my livevideo down at night to
save transfer in case people leave the stream on and fall asleep listening
the the music....anyway, I used hostpro and they did not give the 10Mbps,
more like a 256Kbps deal......I did live streams with them and others before
I found a pricey way to get the job done.........like I said at the
beginning, I agree that you get waht you pay for and being free to run a
business is better than answering support questions about why the pages are
slow to load etc........don't scrimp on the most important part is my
advice.........