Originally Posted by fris (Post 19285017)

too good to be true, $416 a month which is the price for about a 100mbps box from a decent host.

Originally Posted by Monotony (Post 19289756)

It is, it's your American metro area datacenters that are tapped into these very close, very large cables, Brad.
They are charging 100-200$ for 1000 mbps now, retail.

It's not a shock if this is centralized, monopolistic, organized, and orderly.
It quantifies your requirements anyway and beyond.

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell (Post 19286640)

If only porn was legal to be hosted in the UK, it would be a viable option.



While there are certainly many good hosting companies represented on WHT, most of what is there is oversold, resellers and child-like adults running a business from their basement. Prepaying a year in advance for any plan is risky business unless you have a history of successful business with the vendor or significant credibility check from its established customers. Notice the quantity of hosting sites with designs from template monster. and no actual photos or real company information.

Unless that $5000 plan is being sold by a company with other profitable accounts and annual revenue above 5-10 million, I would steer clear. The numbers are the numbers, can't have 1000 megabit of usage every month for 12 months even on a 50+ gigabit commit from one of the largest carriers.. let alone space, power, multihomed bandwidth, a server and support.

My advice, buy what you need not what you think you need - from a reputable company in adult.

Brad

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell (Post 19289764)

I don't know who you are.. its carriers that sell bandwidth, not datacenters. Bring me any one carrier that will sell me 50,000 or 100,000 megabit @ .20 and I'll take it. I'll donate $5000 to the charity of your choice, too. You can't, but I welcome you to try. MojoHost is located in one of the 5 true NAPs in North America, should be easy for you since there are 160 carriers there. If you cannot find something in North America, I will take delivery anywhere in Amsterdam.

Cheers,

Brad

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell (Post 19286640)

If only porn was legal to be hosted in the UK, it would be a viable option.



While there are certainly many good hosting companies represented on WHT, most of what is there is oversold, resellers and child-like adults running a business from their basement. Prepaying a year in advance for any plan is risky business unless you have a history of successful business with the vendor or significant credibility check from its established customers. Notice the quantity of hosting sites with designs from template monster. and no actual photos or real company information.

Unless that $5000 plan is being sold by a company with other profitable accounts and annual revenue above 5-10 million, I would steer clear. The numbers are the numbers, can't have 1000 megabit of usage every month for 12 months even on a 50+ gigabit commit from one of the largest carriers.. let alone space, power, multihomed bandwidth, a server and support.

My advice, buy what you need not what you think you need - from a reputable company in adult.

Brad

Originally Posted by Monotony (Post 19290056)

How do you take delivery Brad?

Originally Posted by Monotony (Post 19301500)

I sent Kent, Brad.