I have a few points I would like to make first.

Servermatrix is a stand up company. They provide a good network with awesome reliability. They make money off of "additional" charges like special installs or custom requests. So if you need them to do something they will charge you $75/hr and want 1 to 3 hours to do it.

Cogent bandwidth is budget bandwidth. In the early days of the net all the "resellers" greatly oversold this to make serious coin. Couple this with routing hardware and protocols constantly being refined caused great strain on the Cogent infastructure. And resulted in down time and heavy packet loss. With new GigE connections and router protocol and hardware it has changed.

I personally don't use any Cogent network in my dealings but have noticed when servicing my clients who are on a Cogent network now.

THIS HAS CHANGED. It is almost like night and day on the Cogent network now. Still seeing some slow traceroutes but not to bad. Would not recommend it for game servers or streaming but for file serving I might consider it.

:2 cents:

Note: I currently use Voxel.net's http://www.voxrox.com and love it! Duel Opteron is amazing!!!!

now that's a damn good deal

Servermatrix is a very large company, they don't just host adult which means 80% of the people that rent servers from them use less then half the bandwidth. If you become very good as overselling then they become profitable. :)

Early days? I didn't know about Cogent until 2-3 years ago. Anyway, everyone said they wouldn't last and they are still here. They have improved allot............. That is why big hosting companys are using them now. They are not even the cheapest anymore.

cogent bandwidth for life!!1

:thumbsup

I dont see anything wrong with cogent bandwidth any more. Ive been pleased with them.

I am in need of a server soon...which should i choose


1] http://www.voxrox.com/servers/xeon.php

2x 2.4GHz Hyperthreading
160 GB HDD (2 x 80)
1 GB RAM

$200/m


2] http://www.servermatrix.com/ (Super Xeon)

- Dual 2.4GHz Xeons
- 2 x 80GB Drives
- 1024MB RAM
- 1200GB Bandwidth
- Private VLAN

$200/m


anyone?

Opteron is my pic, you will be amazed. It out performs Xeon for me at least hands down.

I used to do a lot of BW on cogent and it was the biggest mistake I ever made.

If you're not that serious about your biz, going on cogent wouldn't be a big deal. But if you make a decent amount of money at this, going on cogent would be a bad idea (I guess if you're making money you don't even need to think about going down this road).

voxrox deal doesn't tell you how much bandwidth you get with the $199 deal

Did you get a direct link from Cogent or through a bad reseller?

well, i'm going to give it a shot, just got off the phone with their sales guy.. should have mine up within 24 hours

thing is, even if the 20Mbit can't sustain all day, or you get a bit of loss or something, this deal still whups a lot of the competitors with drive/RAM alone ... so the bandwidth seems like gravy on top.

:2 cents:

mind you - this probably doesn't mean shit because its my first post. but i'll post some files tomorrow night or the next day, and run some test from my other servers and let u guys know the results.

Cool, keep us updated :)

Got your server setup yet? :)

bump for veri, and looking forward to see the results thebizbucket! =)

server was setup about 48 hours later .. and then was usable a day and a half later. apparently they deployed it on the wrong segment and had to move it over.

since then the inbound is SUPER fast, and outbound is in fact 20Mb/s every time i have tried from a fast link.. its def capable of that and a lot more (at first it wasnt capped and pushing a full 10 megabytes per sec, or 100Mb/s out) ..

so sounds like a couple hitches on account of it being a new product.

our monitoring hasnt seen it go down at all yet .. but we aren't sustaining anything (waiting on visa approval).

give me a week or 2 and we'll have some stupidly generous gallery pages up on there with like 30 high res pics to test it out.

check back :)

Good to hear, how is the server so far? :)

Im running

http://www.gaypicsandflicks.com from it, very fast and excellent support

managed server?

when was that? recently?

yep. matrix extreme 20mbps server

How's currently the connection of AOL to cogentco? It used to be HORRIBLE.

Damn that's a fast loading page. Impressive.

yup + its currently serving 1000 users an hour, so its real fast and has too be.

I'm setting one up in about a week...let ya know how it goes. I already have a couple boxes there and IMO as long as you can do admin stuff yourself, they're the only way to fly :2 cents:

http://www26.brinkster.com/tosbanzai/BUMP.jpg


awesome deal

unmanaged? so if you know shit about servers then this isn't the deal for you?

I'm on a standard server (mixed, not cogent) and I'm currently grabbing a huge file from an external server which is capped at 15Mbit/sec... the transfer is going at 10Mbit/sec which I guess is the limit at my end.

I would have also thought that things would grind to a halt with the link near 100% utilisation but I guess the capping is done in software rather than hardware limiting the port to a 10Mbit/sec speed.

Your already getting a dedicated server with 20mbps. I don't getting it managed for free is possible :1orglaugh

Loads fast :thumbsup

How is the updates coming along is the deal what you guys expected?

So far they seem happy

Thinking on getting myself a machine this price is great and I know Servermatrix/Theplanet is top notch and Cogent aint bad at all now days..

Yeah going to grab myself a machine tomorrow or so.. :)
How long did it take for you guys to get your machine online?

"server was setup about 48 hours later "

Bump

so they pretty much give you a server and if you don't know how to update, etc you're fucked? or you gotta pay someone to manage it?

very happpyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy SM customer here since february (moved several servs from ev1)

This offer is for people that know what they are doing or are willing to hired admins when you need something done.