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**Kayla** · January 6th, 2007, 6:29 AM

Many have expressed concern that we have not yet upgraded our dedicated or colocation plans. Some have mentioned they have thought of canceling their servers in order to go back to a reseller plan because of the upgrades. This is not a good idea at all, especially if you are on a dedicated server because of previous TOS abuse (CPU/memory consumption).

The reasons to have a personal server are extremely vast. A dedicated box does not equally compare to a shared or reseller machine. If you have a Celeron dedicated and there's a shared hosting machine a few rows over which is a Dual Core AMD - then yes, the shared machine does have more processing power obviously. But your personal server likely has less accounts and resources are spread more efficiently among them all. There is truthfully nothing better than that. We could also get into the discussion of the "good neighbor" policy, and the fact that you do not have as much control over the applications running on your server. The list can go on and on.

We are able to give such large amounts of space and bandwidth due to "smart overselling" and with a dedicated server you are able to offer the same things to your customers if you wish. A dedicated server is an extreme freedom.

With all of that said, our new dedicated page is almost done. There are now four simplified lines:

Single-CPU Series
Dual-CPU Series
Dual-Core Series
Quad-Core Series

We will also be offering a new processor, the Intel Woodcrest. There are certainly differing views on the performance of Woodcrest versus Opteron in various environments but some will prefer to choose a high performance Intel.

And . . . bandwidth offerings are changing.

I will update this thread again as soon as the page and order system are back up.

January 6th, 2007, 6:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
Kayla Searcher Surpass Staff Joined in May 2003 Lives in Orlando 24,448 posts Gave thanks: 935 Thanked 783 times	[Plan changes] Upgrades for dedicated servers and colo servers Many have expressed concern that we have not yet upgraded our dedicated or colocation plans. Some have mentioned they have thought of canceling their servers in order to go back to a reseller plan because of the upgrades. This is not a good idea at all, especially if you are on a dedicated server because of previous TOS abuse (CPU/memory consumption). The reasons to have a personal server are extremely vast. A dedicated box does not equally compare to a shared or reseller machine. If you have a Celeron dedicated and there's a shared hosting machine a few rows over which is a Dual Core AMD - then yes, the shared machine does have more processing power obviously. But your personal server likely has less accounts and resources are spread more efficiently among them all. There is truthfully nothing better than that. We could also get into the discussion of the "good neighbor" policy, and the fact that you do not have as much control over the applications running on your server. The list can go on and on. We are able to give such large amounts of space and bandwidth due to "smart overselling" and with a dedicated server you are able to offer the same things to your customers if you wish. A dedicated server is an extreme freedom. With all of that said, our new dedicated page is almost done. There are now four simplified lines: Single-CPU Series Dual-CPU Series Dual-Core Series Quad-Core Series We will also be offering a new processor, the Intel Woodcrest. There are certainly differing views on the performance of Woodcrest versus Opteron in various environments but some will prefer to choose a high performance Intel. And . . . bandwidth offerings are changing. I will update this thread again as soon as the page and order system are back up. __________________ Follow Surpass on Twitter and Facebook Check out interesting finds on the Surpass Blog .... it's coming.