Candid Hosting
 

I'm thinking about switching from my dedicated server at CIHOST to CANDID HOSTING... I've been having a nightmare at CIHOST... They have "redundant" OC1, T3 connections but my server is offline 15-30 mins almost every other day!

Does anyone here host with CANDID, and what are your experiences?

:glugglug

I am with Candid and they have great 24/7 tech support even at 4am. There servers are excellent, prices are good and they are very well connected to major backbones. The only thing I have found is in the last 6 months (I've been with them 2+ years) they've had a bunch of unexplained outages and the same 10-15 minutes of downtime you were talking about.

Would I recommend going to them? Yes and no. For me, minus the odd hiccup they are the best host I've ever dealt with. But I haven't tried others. Lots of people say Likewhoa is good, so give them a try.

I hope that helps.

Thanks for the input Daymare... I'm mostly concerned about price right now... this is what I currently have...


No restrictions, you can install any software you want that will work with your server's current OS

10/100 Bay Networks Ethernet Adapter

Dedicated 100 Mbps switch port

300W power supply

UPS device

MonsterControls - a control panel for each of your client's domains

Majordomo full listserver program - with automated setup procedure

Wusage 8 statistics program, a comprehensive visitor statistics for each domain on the server

Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Custom) and Apache 1.3.26x web server

Free DNS for each of your domains (ns/ns2.propagation.net)

Sendmail 8.8.5 mail server

Support for VocalTec Internet Phone, TrueSpeech Digital Audio, VRML, Macromedia's Shockwave

Support for Vream - Virtual Reality Authority Software, Voxware, VivoActive, Midi

Support for Sizzler, Fractal, FutureSplash, Infinop's wavelet image compression

Unlimited email aliases, mailing lists, auto responders

Bandwidth software to monitor your server's switch port. Our software updates your server statistics every Sunday to show you each of your domains bandwidth consumption so you can bill your clients for applicable overages

Webmin - Web-based control panel to operate, administer and configure your dedicated server

Unlimited custom e-mail boxes ([email protected])
SSHd and SSH 1.2.22

SiteMonster Software lets you make as many custom web sites as you need for FREE!

Root access - you will have complete root access to the entire server

Daily server backups included free

Custom server name - we will name the machine any name you choose so that all logons and system messages are unique to your company

Free upgrades - when we upgrade the software on our shared servers, we upgrade our dedicated machines at the same time
PGP 2.62 for safe encrypted email

Perl 5.6.0, C, C++, java jdk 1.4, Python 1.5.2 and Python 2.1.1 & TCL 8.3 Compilers, Emacs 20.7.1

Anonymous FTP and CGI bin

Secure server ready - Apache Freeware SSLeay

PHP 4 with GD 1.8.4 support, mSQL and mySQL databases

Real Audio / Video Server 7.0

Microsoft FrontPage 2002 extensions

Pre-installed cgi-scripts - Every script is added to each domain you setup

Dedicated Server Hotline - direct line into our NOC to speak direct with personnel 24 hours a day with any issue regarding your dedicated server

30 day money back guarantee

Short 3 month minimum contracts


Managed Dedicated Server:

Single AMD Duron 1.2 GHz
Unix / Apache OS
192 KB cache
128 RAM
40 GB ULTRA ATA/100
100 MBps Bay Networks Ethernet Card
32-Bit PCI Graphics Adapter w/ 2 MB RAM
8 IP Addresses (Unlimited domains with name-based hosting)
50 GB Transfer Per Month
EXT3 File System Architecture
MonsterControlsD GUI Control Panel
Setup In 24 Hours Or Less!
Pre-Installed Software
Dedicated Server Warranty
$99 per month


I'm looking for something comparable to this... I am switching because of the outrageous overages charged by my current hosting company as well as the downtime... The only other hosts I can find with comparable packages are Rackshack and Candid... anyone else?

lol, get it off cihost right now...

My god, how can you afford to host adult sites with them? I used to have a dedicated with a mainstream site, and apparently the site that I sold still hosts with them... :)

Slow and shitty. ugh.

Candid is good, I can recommend phatservers, isprime, datahosters, personally. All great service with them. :)

How the fuck can people recommend candid.......I have servers
hosted with them.....and pay good attention now....you can save
yourself some trouble...

12 I repeat 12 downtimes since may 2002. And some of them
lasted HOURS.....those are NETWORK outages NOT server problems
I haven't counted those my friend.

Oh and yes they GARANTEE 99.9% uptime....except when they
are down.....Excuses? 6 power dips, renovation of the NOC,
backbone provider down......Really weird for a provider that
claims to host all the big boys to just have 1 backbone provider.

Broken routers.....also really weird to have single point of failures
in a network, etc, etc.

I wish I could you tell you different. I'm a customer and these
are the hard facts

DynaMite :2 cents:

email moose at phatservers.net and he can give you all the technical details of their servers and services..

i'm pretty stupid when it comes to running dedicated servers..
thats why they admin mine..

Those are the outages I was talking about. However... other hosts have similar ones and Candid is very professional from my experience with them.

I have 1 server at candid hosting. They offer good customer service and great reates.

I haven't heard any complaints from people on their network...
I would certainly recommend them, and do on a daily basis.

I have 3 servers with mach10hosting.com . I have more servers here as I get a lot quicker response times and have NEVER had a problem with my servers. You can reach their lead tech's on ICQ any time of the day, no speaking to half - knowledgable support staff. You can get better rates by contacting them directly. [email protected]

On my recommendation list
1) mach10hosting
2) Candidhosting.com

In that order:-))

Candid is Great

End of Lesson

:thumbsup

if you like downtime that is.

I'd recommend Datahosters, myself. I've been with them only a month...but not a single second of downtime. Its all Verio and they have specials going on right now!

HQ

http://hosting.sextracker.com

Prices are higher but you get 100% quality. No "network" down time in 3 1/2 years with them. They take care of the people they host with pure up time.

So is iBill....come people be serious....just do a search on candid and down.......I'm not telling anything new here. I wish it I could
say they rock. I do host some servers with them.....luckily not too
much.....but still it's kinda frustrating....and their prices certainly
exceed their quality....my opinion and if you follow the board I'm
not the only one

DynaMite :2 cents:

Double Damn, I use Ibill AND Candid :(

Ouch....you're fucked dude make that DP'ed :Graucho

DynaMite

i'v hosted with mach10hosting.com and i cant say anything bad about them. other then that iv heard rave reviews about ISPrime.com. and a little of both about candid.

:2 cents:

he.net


you'll thank me

I been with Candid about 9 months.. they are pretty good... The downtimes would be the only thing I would complain about...

Very GOOD Choice...

I agree

Just check my signature and you'll be pleased.

Anybody have any opinion on http://cwnic.com ?
When all the "big boys" were down this weekend they were still up and Im considering giving them a shot. I have heard good things but I dont know how big/small/reliable they are.

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