50Mbps Unmetered Managed Server - $695
 

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) 50Mbps Unmetered Servers:

4 of the following servers are available:

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

GFY Special Setup Fee (NRC): $95
GFY Special Monthly Fee (MRC): $695

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.


* 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 12/31/2007, 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.
  

wow sounds like a nice deal!

what I don't get is who pushes 50mbit of traffic from an 80gb HD? Or is that the necessary upgrade not included in the price?

The hard drive is not necessarily a problem: it's the CPU + memory. Un-metered servers will never be able to pump out sustained bandwidth speeds for long periods of time; you need proper hardware to do 50mbps, and a simple P4 2.6 won't cut it. Unmetered is useless if you don't have the power to harness it to its maximum potential. You might as well stick with 2000GB per month on a 100mbit port for a box like that.

But hey, I could be wrong.

nice promo !! :)

Thanks for the input. This server can easily push out 50Mbps and beyond, even with a gig of RAM. In practice, we've seen servers with a gig of RAM push well over 100Mbps for things like simple file downloads, streaming, etc..

I cannot guarantee that this server will work for everyone's needs. Because of this, we'll also offer an alternative option.

• Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz, Core 2 Duo E6400 or Better Processor (depending on inventory)
• 2x80GB HDD (RAID1 or RAID0 if preferred)
• Hardware RAID Controller
• 2,048MB DDR2 RAM
• 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

GFY Special Setup Fee (NRC): $95
GFY Special Monthly Fee (MRC): $745

hmm interesting deal !

Yes indeed an interesting deal, .......perhaps a very good deal.......but the bandwidth seems to exceed the hardware (HDD @ 80GB !?, RAM @ 1GB !?) ! :2 cents:

whoaha! great deal...
If it wouldn't be such a load of work to switch hosting companies, I would take it..

You may want to see the additional option (2GB of RAM and 2 HDDs as well as a better processor) for an additional $50/month. Either way, we've seen machines with 1GB of RAM push over 100Mbps, however your ability to push that much bandwidth will vary based upon the type of web site or application that you are hosting.

What type of site are you hosting? If it's all static content, the move should be relatively easy. If you are running a database-driven site, usually a small amount of downtime will be necessary to copy a database dump over (so that no changes are made while it is copying). If you are running a PHP-based site, we simply need to ensure that we have PHP and the proper extensions installed to make sure that the site will work properly.

You may want to contact us, as depending on the circumstances, we may be able to bundle in a free site migration at no charge!

You're getting closer but you're drowning us in minutiae man.

Adult webmasters want to know they can contact you at any time for anything, we're a support intensive group and this
2 Hours Additional Software/OS Support Per Month Included
would throw up a big red flag for me if I was looking for hosting.

We need unlimited support. 24/7/365

i heard a rumor that its a one man operation

Customers can contact us at any time for anything -- the support is listed as 24/7 support. We have 24/7 staff manning the help desk with more senior engineers always available as well.

The "2 hours" is simply a guideline that we use to ensure that each contract is profitable. Hosts claiming to offer 24/7 unlimited support could be subjecting themselves to re-installing Apache or reloading the OS twice a day for certain customers.

I don't think there's anything wrong with imposing some limits. Generally, we use these limits as a rough guideline anyway -- if a customer exceeds the limits by an hour or two one month, they will generally not be charged. If they are consistently exceeding included levels of support, we will begin to charge the customer.

Very interresting because I also heard that they DO NOT have live in house people att these locations they claim to be in.:2 cents:

Whomever told you that is simply incorrect. We've been in business since 1995, we're BBB members, and for serious potential customers, we can provide references who can attest to meeting multiple members of our team.

We have three data centers in the Washington, DC area -- Ashburn Equinix, 1275K Street in DC, and Switch and Data in Reston. It is not practical to staff each facility 24/7 since they do not all have offices or work spaces. Our office is centrally located in Sterling, VA (about 7 minutes from Equinix and 12 minutes from Switch and Data, our two main data centers). We staff our office instead so that our staff can provide 24/7 coverage to both facilities in the area.

Then you thought wrong, and this is why you're not going to get much business from here.

Apparently you already know everything though, so good luck trying to make back the money you spent for the banner space you bought here.

Bump for a great promo...

oh wait!...

sounds like resold HE.net boxes to me, that location list is straight off HE's pop list ;)

"we" you mean "you" and why buy from a reseller? when you can go directly to the source?

We're not an HE.net reseller: http://www.fixedorbit.com/AS/33/AS33597.htm .

We manage our own Cisco routers, with 10GE pipes from multiple providers.

HE is not at our Switch and Data location, not at 1275K Street in DC, not at 1656 Milpitas, not currently at One Wilshire (though they are coming there), etc.

HE.net doesn't even sell managed boxes to my knowledge.

Do some research before criticizing.

Nothing in this world is "unlimited." It's just a fact of life. If you run a business and offer unlimited support, do you mean to tell me that you can afford to offer 24 hours per day of support for each customer that pays you? Most companies that claim to offer "unlimited" support will at some point impose limits. We own up to this rather than attempting to hide it. Any business with a sustainable, profitable business model cannot offer unlimited anything. Being in business since 1995, we're comfortable with our business model, our offerings, and our terms, and we have many happy customers who are happy to provide testimonials for serious potential clients.

awesome offer bro! ;)

Well good for you, this is the 2nd time you've decided to come here, to a place where nobody knows you, nobody will vouch for you, where you have no "street credit" whatsoever, and tried to tell us how it's going to be.

You need us, we don't need you, get that through your skull and you might earn some business.

Or you can keep offering packages that don't fit the needs of the people who read this board and wonder why you're not selling them. And when people ask questions about your business you can continue to talk down your nose to them and tell them they should google you or look you up on a mainstream board.

Adult and Mainstream are two totally different things when it comes to hosting, you don't seem to understand that, and that alone is reason enough for us to not host with you.

Like I told you in another one of your threads, you need to go back to sales school, because you really suck at it so far.

true what he said ^^^^

too many rules and guidelines and bullshit....

you stupid...no one aint gonna spend their time 24 hours talking to support, are you that dumb? people only need support when they need support....and you can take a loss 1,2,3 months and it will be ok because hosting is long term and people aint gonna be that easy to switch every few months...people work on their shit not talk to support all day long or change hosts every time their fart.

Some webmasters are support intensive. The last time I have talked to most of my data centers is the last time their network down or the billing got borked. And honestly, if you are spending megabucks on servers you need to either know what you are doing yourself or employ someone else who does rather than relying on support at a data center to dig you out. But then again, I forget, this is the adult entertainment industry, where everyone wants grade "A" but wants to pay nothing for it.

You know whats sad about this whole thing? This guy is actually being up front and getting flamed out the ass for it. No host offers unlimited support with all their contracts. Sure, plenty say they do. Just like the whole "24/7/365 support" thing. With most hosts, that means the ticket system takes tickets all the time and someone looks at them here and there at night, or that someone is close to the phone and checks the messages once an hour or something.

They might say they do. But sooner or later, limits are set and/or a customer is helped to the door. Might just be a matter of a large price increase, setting a new policy against running a certain kind of software, frequent "outages" that only effect that customer, etc. Or simply telling them to get out. I have hosted people on my boxes as a shared host before and I make it very clear that there is no support for customer applications. And if they start messaging me, I say "Look, you need to find someone who has the time for it. I simply don't have time to provide support to someone for $10 a month."

Many hosts lead the customer to the impression that hand holding is there and the customer doesn't find out until after they are in a contract. This guy is up front with it and all people do is flame him for it.

Woa. You are now talking for all of adult entertainment? I like the use of "Us" and "We" in your tirade, however, what do you do again? Yea, that's right. Stick to "I" and "Me", let the guy run his promo.

If you would like someone to come on here & attest to you guys being a solid/legit operation. Hit me up on icq 440 887, I'm in the area & would be more than happy to drop by the office to meet the techs/check out your facilities in person today/tomorrow. :thumbsup

Excellent! I don't have an ICQ account, but I can get one setup. Today isn't the best since I have meetings other obligations, but tomorrow (Tuesday) or Wednesday works better. Expect to hear from me on ICQ soon and we'll set something up!

Nice offer pr0. sounds like it could be much needed with an outside statement :)

Yep, thanks pr0! It turns out that one of my meetings today may be canceled, so today might work indeed. Either way, I will catch you on ICQ at some point today to schedule everything.

Russ,

maybe next time you should stop telling people your second 6509 is in my companies cage and not claim it to be yours at reston.

And before you say anything yes its true because I toured a customer a few months back after you(maybe almost a year about now) did and thats what they told me.

Think before you speak before I start debunking all your other statements.

put a quad core processor , 4 gig ram and a 250 gig HD in there and your good to go.

Pentium 4's are fucken dinosaurs now

adultbandwidth, I am also in the area and good friends with pr0. I have been asked by many of my customers about you and your offers as well as who and what you claim to be, so I would also be interrested in being in on this meeting. If you are up to it hit me up as well and let's see what's up.

I agree extra support shouldnt bother the compeny or cost any EXTRA to the coustmer! Thats how people get pissed off at hosting companies who think theres level of support and level of extra support .

50mbps on a P4 with 1gb RAM and regular HDD is stupid

No its not, lighttpd or if you cache images into squid for thumb servers can easily do 50Mbps.

You are 100% wronf\g, I have a few p4's that do well over 100mEGS AND HAVE NO ISSUES AT ALL.:2 cents:

Exactly. I'm not sure why everyone here is arguing that you cannot push 50Mbps on a P4 with a gig of RAM. We actually have customers pushing nearly 100Mbps with Celerons that have 512MB of RAM. It's highly possible depending on the application.

We have P4s with a gig that push more than 100Mbps reliably on a regular basis.

waiting 2 hear from ya man ; )

Jim,

I'd be glad to have you join in. Perhaps we can meet at the office, then head over to one or both of the data centers and then grab lunch together.

I'll shoot you an e-mail with regard to this. Wednesday's probably the best day for me. I'll also hop on ICQ (hopefully later today) to chat with pr0.

pr0 and I already talked and we were hoping for today or tomorrow? He can make it after that but I am leaving wed for 10 days vacation to Disney with the wife, 2 sons and both their girlfriends. pr0 is quite capable of observing your operation and reporting to all of the interrested partie. I would hope you could make it tomorrow, but let us know.

Jim

I get the feeling that this isn't going to end well for the new guy.

I could be wrong, but that's what my gut tells me. (it also tells me to order pizza way too much so maybe I shouldn't listen to it)

Jim,

I've e-mailed you -- hopefully you can pass that along to pr0 so I don't have to sign up for ICQ.

his office is a cardboard box outside the datacenter

Jim, I've e-mailed you -- meeting all set for 11:30 tomorrow AM. Please confirm by replying to me e-mail as I have a pretty tight schedule tomorrow.

Thanks.

OK I got your mail and replied, But I'll comfirm it here also. Yes both pr0 and I will be there at your office at 11:30 am tomorrow.

Thanks
Jim