100Mbps Unmetered Servers GFY $495 Blowout!

[adultbandwidth]

InfoRelay Online Systems, Inc. a company that has provided complex managed hosting, high bandwidth connectivity, and colocation since 1995, has just completed some additional 10 gigabit upgrades, incorporating additional 10GE connections to our providers.

We are running a limited time promotion for GFY users only, and we guarantee to match or beat any price from any qualified competitor*. Please read the terms below, then contact us with your request.


To get signed up, please contact us.

Dedicated (non-shared) 100Mbps Unmetered Servers:

4 of the following servers are available:

• Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz
• 1,024MB RAM
• 80GB SATA HDD

Standard Setup Fee (NRC): $195
Standard Monthly Fee (MRC): $1,295

GFY Special Setup Fee (NRC): $95
GFY Special Monthly Fee (MRC): $495

InfoRelay's billing cycle coincides with the calendar month, therefore, billing for the first month will be pro-rated and reduced accordingly.

To get signed up, please contact us.

GFY Discounted Management, Monitoring and Backup Add-On Option (adds $200/month) Includes:

• 100GB Secure Backup Storage (Automated Incremental Backup, up to 6 snapshots per day)
• 24/7 Staff Monitoring with Proactive Staff Response
• Monthly OS and Basic Software Package Updates
• 2 Hours Additional Software/OS Support Per Month Included
• 24/7 Priority Support and 2 Hour Hardware Repair/Replacement Included

* Terms:

• Servers are available as part of this offer at our San Jose location. Upon request, other services may be available at our other locations, which include 55 S. Market Street, San Jose (Market Post Tower), 1656 McCarthy Blvd (Milpitas, CA), Equinix (Ashburn, VA), Equinix (600 W. 7th, Los Angeles), Switch and Data (Reston, VA), One Wilshire (Los Angeles), Wilshire Annex (Los Angeles), NAP of the Americas (Miami, FL), 1275K Street (Washington, DC), and others.
  
• Current customers with non-delinquent accounts are eligible; however this offer applies to the quoted servers only. Current customers that are under contract may add these servers, but may not replace their contracted services unless approved by management.
  
• Offer valid until 12/15/2007, or until the listed servers have been sold.
  
• An implied Non-Disclosure Agreement shall be put into place for customers requesting a price match -- therefore, customers must keep special pricing confidential in order for us to honor this promotion.
  

For full details, see http://www.inforelay.com/promo-GFY2007_2.php

[Snake Doctor]

Can a P4 with 1GB of RAM use 100mbps?

Also, the $495 price is for unmanaged? It's $200 a month for tech support?

[sandman!]

Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

Can a P4 with 1GB of RAM use 100mbps?

Also, the $495 price is for unmanaged? It's $200 a month for tech support?

i have done 100mbs on a celeron with 1 gig ram

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

Can a P4 with 1GB of RAM use 100mbps?

Also, the $495 price is for unmanaged? It's $200 a month for tech support?

$495 price is unmanaged. Basic support and hardware maintenance is included with that. The management add-on for $200 includes backup services, 24/7 server monitoring with proactive response, 2 additional hours of software OS support, monthly OS and software updates, and enhanced 24/7 support for things that go beyond basic reboots. The add-on also includes a 2 hour hardware repair or replacement guarantee.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by sandman!

i have done 100mbs on a celeron with 1 gig ram

Yes, we have customers with P4 servers that push over 300Mbps. For simple HTTP or FTP traffic, a P4 server could easily handle that.

If most of your content is dynamic, however (PHP, CGI scripts, etc.), you may need a beefier box.

[tranza]

Damn, that's cheap!

[Lamis]

495???

That's a third I am paying for my 100 mbps.. I pay 1500...

How can that be this cheap??

[[ScreaM]]

That is fucking sweet!

[Blazed]

Can you post some big sites that you host?

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by Lamis

495???

That's a third I am paying for my 100 mbps.. I pay 1500...

How can that be this cheap??

That's also well below our standard pricing, and the management/backup/monitoring add-on is also priced at less than half of what we'd normally charge.

Since we're new to the GFY community, we're letting a few machines go at a pricing below our cost so that we can demonstrate the level of quality that we're able to offer.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by Blazed

Can you post some big sites that you host?

In general, we contact most of our clients before giving their information out as a reference to make sure it's okay. If you'd a couple of references, submit a sales ticket using the contact us link in the original post.

You may be familiar with the Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com). This site is hosted by our subsidiary, Sitelutions, and the owner has already made this public. We've hosted this site for about two years now, and at it's peak, it was receiving about 200Mbps of legitimate traffic (it also was attacked at one point, and we saw about 500Mbps of additional attack traffic coming in).

[TidalWave]

HE.net , their primary provider is selling bandwidth at $5/Mbps

[madfuck]

dammmm tht sounds lik some shit...

[Brad Mitchell]

Originally Posted by adultbandwidth

Yes, we have customers with P4 servers that push over 300Mbps. For simple HTTP or FTP traffic, a P4 server could easily handle that.

I make it a point to stay out of other hosts threads... But you probably need to re-check your facts on this. I don't care if it's super huge movie files only but suggesting that 300Mbps on a P4 with 1G of RAM and a single SATA drive doing the operating system and site serving is absolutely ludicrous - especially to comment anything about "easily" handling that.



Brad

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

I make it a point to stay out of other hosts threads... But you probably need to re-check your facts on this. I don't care if it's super huge movie files only but suggesting that 300Mbps on a P4 with 1G of RAM and a single SATA drive doing the operating system and site serving is absolutely ludicrous - especially to comment anything about "easily" handling that.



Brad

Understood Brad... thanks for the input. When I said a P4 server could "easily" handle that, I meant 100Mbps. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I wouldn't say that a P4 server with a gigabyte of RAM could "easily" push 300Mbps, but we have seen it before. The specific server that I'm talking about is doing about 240Mbps now, but has bursted to over 300. These are mostly movie download happening, so it's just a few HTTP sessions downloading large files. I believe that the customer is using squid or lighthttpd, so that may help.

[jonm76]

You are not trying to do enterprise hosting on windows are you?
We have loaded a bunch of movies into memory before and basically had apache load everything in memory (all within 1 GB of memory on the box) and we were "easily" able to hit 400 Mbps....
So I am not sure what you are doing wrong, but try loading some stuff in memory if you have not tried that yet. There is no need to hit the disk if you only have certain files that will get hit all of the time.

[pr0]

Originally Posted by adultbandwidth

Yes, we have customers with P4 servers that push over 300Mbps. For simple HTTP or FTP traffic, a P4 server could easily handle that.

If most of your content is dynamic, however (PHP, CGI scripts, etc.), you may need a beefier box.

please tell me you're joking....sandman! had all kinda crazy tweaks done to get a 1ghz box to push 100mbps

somehow im doubting you guys pushed 300 on a single p4 cpu box

but hey, now that you did....post proof

[pr0]

Originally Posted by adultbandwidth

Understood Brad... thanks for the input. When I said a P4 server could "easily" handle that, I meant 100Mbps. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I wouldn't say that a P4 server with a gigabyte of RAM could "easily" push 300Mbps, but we have seen it before. The specific server that I'm talking about is doing about 240Mbps now, but has bursted to over 300. These are mostly movie download happening, so it's just a few HTTP sessions downloading large files. I believe that the customer is using squid or lighthttpd, so that may help.

ok so post the mrtg's

[sandman!]

Originally Posted by pr0

please tell me you're joking....sandman! had all kinda crazy tweaks done to get a 1ghz box to push 100mbps

somehow im doubting you guys pushed 300 on a single p4 cpu box

but hey, now that you did....post proof

100mbs is not that hard 300mbs is alot harder i would never try to do 300mbs on a box like that

[Boss Traffic Jim]

I have a few P4's 2gb ram and 120 gig sata drive servers with www.techiemedia.com and they do 80 - 100 megs all day long but Techie has some killer techs tweaking their shit. But 300 megs with 1 gig ram I highly doubt that dude. As pr0 said prove it now that you've said it !! Also by offering bw at your cost or below will only prove 1 thing in the long run and that is that you are nothing more than a LikeWhos or foundryNap (magg) and destine for bankruptcy. There are a ;lot of great hosts that post on gfy and have earned their reputation the hard way, by good support, fair pricing etc... I think by you (a no name hosting spammer) coming to gfy with ZERO credibility and offering ridicules prices that any asshat can see your taking a loss on and can never last is down right demeaning to the gfy community.

[sandman!]

Originally Posted by Afrin

I have a few P4's 2gb ram and 120 gig sata drive servers with www.techiemedia.com and they do 80 - 100 megs all day long but Techie has some killer techs tweaking their shit. But 300 megs with 1 gig ram I highly doubt that dude. As pr0 said prove it now that you've said it !! Also by offering bw at your cost or below will only prove 1 thing in the long run and that is that you are nothing more than a LikeWhos or foundryNap (magg) and destine for bankruptcy. There are a ;lot of great hosts that post on gfy and have earned their reputation the hard way, by good support, fair pricing etc... I think by you (a no name hosting spammer) coming to gfy with ZERO credibility and offering ridicules prices that any asshat can see your taking a loss on and can never last is down right demeaning to the gfy community.

you will probably melt the hd before you run out of ram if setup right doing 300 megs

[Evil E]

Interesting thread, I'll take a seat.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by pr0

ok so post the mrtg's

Here's another one that goes higher. This is a P4, admittedly a 3.2, with 1GB of RAM.

We don't advise doing this, but depending on traffic patterns, you may be able to push this traffic on a similar box.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by TidalWave

HE.net , their primary provider is selling bandwidth at $5/Mbps

Actually, that's a promo that HE is running for a single gigabit port if you announce IPv6 space through them, and it is only available to networks with their own IPv6 space at a single location. We have 10GE ports to HE and other providers, therefore we don't qualify for that special, as it isn't available over 10GE.

Furthermore, we also utilize Global Crossing, TW Telecom, PCCW/BtN, and other carriers.

[Spudstr]

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

I make it a point to stay out of other hosts threads... But you probably need to re-check your facts on this. I don't care if it's super huge movie files only but suggesting that 300Mbps on a P4 with 1G of RAM and a single SATA drive doing the operating system and site serving is absolutely ludicrous - especially to comment anything about "easily" handling that.



Brad

We've had single 10k rpm raptor drives top out around 400-500Mbps

[Ross]

Even with paying for the $200 per month support package this is still a killer deal! $700 per month for 100mbit. Insane.

[JayCabi]

cogent bandwidth ?

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by adultbandwidth

Yes, we have customers with P4 servers that push over 300Mbps. For simple HTTP or FTP traffic, a P4 server could easily handle that.

If most of your content is dynamic, however (PHP, CGI scripts, etc.), you may need a beefier box.

mind if i ask, what kind of HDD are you using for P4 with 300MB?

[Ycaza]

I am with brad here, the basic principl;e here is this offer is mostly a loser for the company, you cant really buy bandwidth that cheap, not anything good, shit cogent is 7 bucks a meg. a p4 sata 1 box with one gig of ram will start to lose it at 60-70 Mbps with anything real on there. But good luck on the promotion guys.

[Spudstr]

Originally Posted by Ycaza

I am with brad here, the basic principl;e here is this offer is mostly a loser for the company, you cant really buy bandwidth that cheap, not anything good, shit cogent is 7 bucks a meg. a p4 sata 1 box with one gig of ram will start to lose it at 60-70 Mbps with anything real on there. But good luck on the promotion guys.

HE is selling bandwidth 5/mbps on gigE+ deals.. IF you also announce IpV6 IP space over the circuit.. Other than that run it at 100% on IpV4 all day long..... but it is HE.

[webair]

Originally Posted by Spudstr

HE is selling bandwidth 5/mbps on gigE+ deals.. IF you also announce IpV6 IP space over the circuit.. Other than that run it at 100% on IpV4 all day long..... but it is HE.

Exactly, we have clients that have separate GIGE lines to HE as well as Cogent. Nothing wrong with that. Our Facility is carrier neutral. We can sell you HE all day long if it suits your needs. Not to mention our network is connected to some of the largest network access points in the world. This allows us to interconnect with all major networks providing decreased latency to our clients.

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Additionally, we can provide you with MPLS transport to the PROVIDER OF YOUR CHOICE and connect it directly (redundantly) to your server.
We have clients who use this service to connect to many providers as well as to connect directly to international transport carriers.

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[WiredGuy]

For those of you saying that a server would cap out at 100mbps+ on a 1 gig ram cpu, what would happen to the sites hosted on it? Packet loss, dropped connections, server crashes? Too much IO going on between the HD for apache to keep up?
WG

[Spudstr]

Originally Posted by WiredGuy

For those of you saying that a server would cap out at 100mbps+ on a 1 gig ram cpu, what would happen to the sites hosted on it? Packet loss, dropped connections, server crashes? Too much IO going on between the HD for apache to keep up?
WG

100mbps on a machine serving static content isn't hard to do.. but yes packet loss on a 100Mbps port would be the problem. figure someone relaly runs around 90-85mbps on the machine so 495/85 = $5.8/Mbps 495/90=$5.5/Mbps so if its HE they are hardly profitable if utilized 100%. but we all know no one uses the pipes 100%, Carrier/isp billing is on the 95th percentile so your 85Mbps of usage is really maybe.. 70Mbps of billable bandwidth now margins go up better. Cogent bills on the 90th percentile so billable usage is even lower.

Some isps will give away bandwidth just to hit/fill commit levels so its not wasted. So they have a small loss leader or break even for a handful of people but the rest of the network thats paying normal prices is where the money is made.

[Snake Doctor]

Originally Posted by Ross

Even with paying for the $200 per month support package this is still a killer deal! $700 per month for 100mbit. Insane.

Realistically it's more like 70mbit.

On a 100mbps capped line the most you can realistically use is about 70mbps, if you're using more than that your site will be unreachable alot of the time because the line will be maxed out.

[sandman!]

Originally Posted by WiredGuy

For those of you saying that a server would cap out at 100mbps+ on a 1 gig ram cpu, what would happen to the sites hosted on it? Packet loss, dropped connections, server crashes? Too much IO going on between the HD for apache to keep up?
WG

anyone trying to do 100mbs on that box running apache is an idiot.

anyone using apache for pure static content is most likely an idiot

the only way to do 100mbs on a server like this is to use it for static content.

[adultbandwidth]

1 server taken, 3 left!

[kacy]

I am gonna have to agree with Brad and Ycaza as well. You would be lucky to get 90, pushing close to 100 everything is going to be slow.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by kacy

I am gonna have to agree with Brad and Ycaza as well. You would be lucky to get 90, pushing close to 100 everything is going to be slow.

That is correct. Some of our clients are hosting free adult sites and don't really mind if they are maxing out their connections. The others like to keep each 100Mbps server at around 70-80Mbps. We do have the option for 100Mbps burstable to 200Mbps, or a gigabit, however this is not part of our promotion and pricing would be higher. If you're interested, we can quote that out on a case-by-case basis.

[adultbandwidth]

Originally Posted by Spudstr

100mbps on a machine serving static content isn't hard to do.. but yes packet loss on a 100Mbps port would be the problem. figure someone relaly runs around 90-85mbps on the machine so 495/85 = $5.8/Mbps 495/90=$5.5/Mbps so if its HE they are hardly profitable if utilized 100%.

...

Some isps will give away bandwidth just to hit/fill commit levels so its not wasted. So they have a small loss leader or break even for a handful of people but the rest of the network thats paying normal prices is where the money is made.

We don't have the HE $5 deal because we connect via 10GE. We're at under 50% of capacity, so nothing to worry about in terms of burst room. We also have other providers that add to our cost, and let's not forget about the costs of servers, rack space, and power (not inexpensive at our facilities, such as Equinix).

This is a loss leader, you're exactly right. We don't expect to profit on this deal as it's a promotional deal. Other companies on GFY are having holiday server giveaways -- the same type of loss-leader approach.

[adultbandwidth]

3 boxes sold, only one left. First come, first serve!

[Evil E]

Bump for you guys, as I want to hear feedback from your NEW customers.

This is an awesome promo deal if you guys a reliable company. I really don't need need that much bandwidth though and I'm already set.

[adultbandwidth]

Thanks for the bump!

We had one customer take one machine, and another customer take two more. We have tentatively also sold the fourth (payment not received yet). We're encouraging our new customers to post on GFY about their experiences.

You may wish to search for us or look through other forums (like WebHostingTalk.com) for other reviews as well.