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Originally Posted by doridori
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what do you recommend? alphared offers 2.5TB for 50 bucks, while pacificrack offers 2TB for 84 bucks.....
i've heard some shit has gone down with alphared, but read that their hosting business is still intact.....do any of you have hosting with them ?
pacificrack sounds reliable tooo.....many recommended that one.
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AR is indeed dead. I left because I was being forced to compromise my business ethics at the hands of complete crooks, and I knew their model was unsustainable. Two months after I left, they flopped.
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Originally Posted by chupachups
(Post 15105718)
Did you live in a cave? ;) Read up on Alphared. Pacific rack is def. the way to go.
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The statement that you get what you pay for is true, but there's a twist that not many people realize. True, companies like AR, and others still around today will try to offer you something so cheap, that you just wont be able to say no - and it will work. AR had hundreds of clients and pushed enormous amounts of bandwidth, fueled by ludicrously cheap prices.
The problem is that when you do that, you have to cut corners to make a buck. You're going to get garbage bandwidth, moron techs, slow speeds, slow ticket response time, crappy/dated/used servers etc. Despite the fact that these companies will disguise the grim finish beneath the glossy paint they spray over their offering, you will sooner or later come to realize the finer points of why they are indeed so cheap.
Companies that know you cant offer a $50 dedicated server and be taken seriously sometime fall victim to another pitfall, though. You'll run across some companies today that insist that even though they are well reputed, and are in all other aspects fantastic companies, that you must pay an exorbitant amount of money for their services.
This is a slippery psychological tactic geared toward the consumer who's smart enough to know not to fall for the $50 server trick. The trick is to convince this consumer that in order to feel safe buying what you can be sure is a quality service package from a host, you must be paying A LOT, compared to what the other hosts are offering. This, while geared toward a smaller audience - smaller than the droves who think $50 servers will be %100 reliable - is a far more profitable crop to attract.
I'm not going to pretend I'm without bias, but it is my sincere opinion that a host should offer the level of service and quality that today's top hosts do, without using the "Server for the Upper Class" tactic to take advantage of the consumer.
As for the $50 server pushers, I challenge all who take one to give it 6 months and see how the complaints will start stacking. I should know, I worked for a company like that, and it is with that perspective that I feel so strongly based in my feelings about the hosting biz today.
Just my :2 cents:
