Re: [cobalt-users] Warning regarding using CobaltRacks.com

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

le 1.11.2001 22:50, Bradley Caricofe à bcaricofe@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> I hate to send an email like this, but I feel compelled after nearly being
> put out of business today by the negligient actions of some ametuers who
> possibly shouldn't be in the hosting business.  After developing websites
> for 5 years and working at companies like CyberCash and Red Hat Inc.  I
> felt I was ready to go at it for myself.  I leased a dedicated RaQ3 from
> COBALTRACKS.com. 
> 
> Until yesterday my service had worked very well this entire time.  Last
> night, they decided, for reasons completely beyond me, to rebuild my
> entire operating system.  I never put in any such request.  This morning,
> I wake up to find myself possibly out of business.  I have managed to
> attain 20 hosting clients since the inception of my business, all of them
> are currently down.  Clients that had signed with me this week are
> wondering if we can handle their projects now and deadlines are now being
> pushed around so myself and my one sysadmin can rebuild things.
> 
> THINK TWICE BEFORE USING COBALTRACKS.COM or any service from
> VISUALLINK.com.
> 
> Not only did they let us down, this problem was addressed to them at 11:30
> am this morning.  I spoke with their CEO, NOC manager and tech support
> staff.  Noone has called me back at all today after all of them promised
> to.  Does anyone know where I can get cobalt racks at similar prices?
> 

Hi Bradley,

If you speak french you might want to check out
http://partenaires.infomaniak.ch

It's our partner plan. We basically offer the following :
* 1 GB diskspace
* 50 FTP accounts
* 500 pop/imap accounts ( with webmail, auto-responder, deviation etc ..)
* PHP 4.0.4pl1
* Perl
* SSI
* MySQL database ( backupped daily )
* Cobalt Backups possible on customer level.
* Entire website backupped every 2-3 days
* 100MB network connected entirely via glass fiber to the Colt network ( one
of Europe's best carriers )


All of this for 120 Euros per year for standard customers, but with our
partner program the partner only pays 96 Euros per year.

And you do all the administration of your website yourself, via our
control-panel http://demo.demonstration.ch