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mrleblanc · March 9th, 2004, 3:09 PM

I'll start this as a general discussion for others to consider the possiblilties.

I have been with surpass since July of last year. I am on the Deluxe shared hosting plan at $10 per month. While I am pleased with the plan and the service, occasionally I have been limited by what I can install. For instance, an application I am looking at installing now requires java support.

Of course, if I were on a surpass dedicated server I would not be limited by what I installed. At $99 a month, this is well out of my league. I am now considering the possibility of finding 9 other people to share a dedicated server. Compare the advantages below for anyone who is currently on a Deluxe shared hosting plan (based on 10 people sharing):

Deluxe shared hosting $10/month...................Dedicated Celeron plan - No Setup & CPanel
Space- 2000MB............................................ .....Space- 8000MB
Bandwidth- 30GB.............................................. .Bandwidth- 100GB
EMail- Unlimited......................................... ........Unlimited
cPanel X7.4- Yes............................................... cPanel/WHM CP
Scripta- Yes............................................... .......Yes
IP Addresses- 1................................................ 5

Monthly- $10............................................... ..... $12
Yearly- $110.............................................. ..... $120

Clearly, the shared dedicated server is a better deal.

Of course, if I can find 9 other people here that are interested, there are a few issues that we would need to work out. For instance, for privacy we would need to look at if we need the hard drive partitioned or perhaps ten password protected directories. Also how the monthly charges will be collected by surpass. We might need to setup an account that we all contribute to or have surpass automatically withdraw $12 from our credit cards each month. If surpass could not do this then we would need to organize some agreements about how to respect each other's space.

I suppose discussing the possibilities here would be a good place to start.

March 9th, 2004, 3:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
mrleblanc Registered User Seasoned Poster Joined in Jun 2003 Lives in VAncouver, BC 59 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Looking for 9 people to share a dedicated server I'll start this as a general discussion for others to consider the possiblilties. I have been with surpass since July of last year. I am on the Deluxe shared hosting plan at $10 per month. While I am pleased with the plan and the service, occasionally I have been limited by what I can install. For instance, an application I am looking at installing now requires java support. Of course, if I were on a surpass dedicated server I would not be limited by what I installed. At $99 a month, this is well out of my league. I am now considering the possibility of finding 9 other people to share a dedicated server. Compare the advantages below for anyone who is currently on a Deluxe shared hosting plan (based on 10 people sharing): Deluxe shared hosting $10/month...................Dedicated Celeron plan - No Setup & CPanel Space- 2000MB............................................ .....Space- 8000MB Bandwidth- 30GB.............................................. .Bandwidth- 100GB EMail- Unlimited......................................... ........Unlimited cPanel X7.4- Yes............................................... cPanel/WHM CP Scripta- Yes............................................... .......Yes IP Addresses- 1................................................ 5 Monthly- $10............................................... ..... $12 Yearly- $110.............................................. ..... $120 Clearly, the shared dedicated server is a better deal. Of course, if I can find 9 other people here that are interested, there are a few issues that we would need to work out. For instance, for privacy we would need to look at if we need the hard drive partitioned or perhaps ten password protected directories. Also how the monthly charges will be collected by surpass. We might need to setup an account that we all contribute to or have surpass automatically withdraw $12 from our credit cards each month. If surpass could not do this then we would need to organize some agreements about how to respect each other's space. I suppose discussing the possibilities here would be a good place to start.