RE: [cobalt-users] Problem sending mail

["Adam Knowles" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Adam, Dedicated Servers are not the issue.

They fell short of their promised level of support by a country mile. A
rebuild they said would take 1.5hrs took 4 hours, and they didn't
resolve a single one of my further issues..all of which were easily
sorted. Plus their helpdesk tracking system is buggy, and on the phone
they come across as unhelpful.

> If you want to pay lots of money to 3rd parties to maintain
> your server then fine, otherwise, get it together yourself.

That's a fair comment. I'd already sussed ipchains & portsentry on the
server. My main job is php/mysql development, not server maintenance..
so it was great having Solarspeed to take care of a couple of things I
didn't have time for. Always good to have a backup expert for when the
boss says "get it working now, sod the cost" :)

> BTW, _any_ offering from a UK company will be beaten by 1000
> miles by a rackshack deal.
> Recent quote : Rackshack 1.3 ghz celeron, 512 RAM, 60Gb drive,
> Ensim, 400Gb monthly allowance : Price £70/month

Flippin eck, you're not kiddin! I'm always wary of deals offering silly
amounts of bandwidth though? Plus after having a Raq for 2 years I'm not
sure how easy it'll be to start using a whitebox Linux server..?  The
main problem would be with keeping every piece of software working
myself, rather than just doing the occasional .pkg through the GUI.

I mean if say PHP needed upgrading, but the ./configure wouldn't go
through for some bizarre reason.. I'm not sure I'd want to spend hours
figuring out why?  

On the other hand..a completely standard Redhat server should be easy to
maintain.. but you lose the great Raq resources like the Raqfaq, this
mailing list and countless websites. I'd need to be sure there was a
good network of free help plus decent support from Rackshack when I need
it.

Adam