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There are a thousand and one schmucks running web hosting companies. Why have I decided to throw my hat in?

Because I do a far better job.

I'm an infrastructure architect with over 10 years of experience. I live for it. I started getting paid to do this when I was 13, moved out on my own to pursue a career in it a year later. Now I've worked everything from large manufacturing 100% uptime supercomputers, to multi-gigabit high variable networks (napster. Yes I worked at napster, and before you ask, we didn't make money), to currently successful dot-coms like register.com . I've built thousand node clusters, out of x86-based servers, run a 500-server datacenter (napster) as the only sysadmin for a year, and worked at several isps.

So, I'm starting a new venture. I've been consulting for about 7 years offtime, and decided to go new with it a year ago while working at alt.com. A coworker referred me to an adult webmaster with about 2 dozen sites. I took over the technical operations of his servers, moved him into a good datacenter, and now we're starting up an ISP.

We currently have 3 100mb/s links, routed via ospf, to top-tier providers (fuck cogent). We're starting up next week, and offering very competitive servers & prices. I'm distinguishing ourselves by running things properly. Well-tested configurations. EVERY SERVER HAS A HARWDARE RAID CONTROLLER THAT MIRRORS IT'S HARD DRIVE.

We're providing you very good hardware at a cheap price. I'll be frank, we don't make money off hardware, we make money when you push out bandwidth, it's in our best interests to build blazing fast servers and rent them out at cost.


We offer 24/7 tech support/monitored noc. Nightly incremental backups and weekly full backups. A control panel for managing, or we can manage the server for you via netboot, leaving your full drive space for data.

We've got an 8 terabyte raid, that's dumped onto tape nightly (that was fun code to write, let me tell you).

We also offer consulting services for any of your unix server needs, at $150/hour ($125/hour if you mention
you saw this posting on GFY). We can provide services for anything from programming, to large fault-tolerant, high availability cluster design, mysql/postgresql/oracle database design and maintenance, and general problem solving.

If you're interested in a top-quality bandwidth provider ($100/mbit if you say you saw my posting on GFY) , and a fanatical support staff for your servers, then vist http://www.bigserverhosting.com/

The webpage isn't fully done, we've been working more on building a fault tolerant network, but you'll get the general gist.

hey man let me know if you need colo space to start your venture

Actually, I have several racks
worth of space at a carrier neutral facility already.. Within 6 months I plan on opening a second datacenter, at equinix, and getting a gigabit link between them (only thing cogent is good for) for mirroring backup servers and mirroring db servers, and providingmultihomed access to all of my customers.