qwertykb

Hey, I am asking this for someone. He wants to know if Surpass plans to have unmetered plans in the future. Right now, he's thinking of going with ServerMatrix because of the unmetered so he might signup with Surpass if they plan to offer unmetered in the future. Cheers.

Dark Matter

Yes they do have unmetered plans...they are located in the Colocations section.

Linky link
http://www.surpasshosting.com/?x=colocation

qwertykb

Ok, but it's co-location and costs much more than servermatrix.

Dark Matter

yes but Surpass does not use cheap Cogent™ bandwidth

Dark Matter

What your friend plans on doing with that much bandwidth?

qwertykb

Well, he's going to use it for streaming video/audio, forums with file storage, gaming server, chatroom.. just about everything. Also, even though it's Cogent bandwidth, ServerMatrix has better server specs and comes with cpanel already. I think Surpass should retire the Celeron 1.7 and make P4 a standard since 1.7 Celerons are discontinued already.

Dark Matter

Marketing is the Greatest avenue to lie, just to get anyone hooked into what is being sold.

Most hosting companies also use Celerons, and there are some that also use P3 chips only.

Cogent bandwidth is cheaper bandwidth, but it is slower and less reliable.
Because they charge a cheaper rate, they can't get many peering arrangements with other carriers, and this means to try and keep costs down, they will keep the traffic on their network even though it is normally not the fastest route to take.

Considering that other higher quality bandwidth providers are now charging very competitive rates and I have scrutinized then all. So If I went with Surpass after doing this

The quality of bandwidth and the overall performance. Some hosts scrimp on these to give you cheaper prices. Do a self test - visit the host's website multiple times in a day/week to see that it remains fast loading.

http://sync.surpasshosting.com/speed_test.rar

Bigjohn

There is no such thing as 'unmetered'... I don't care what anyone says. The reason is that if your server is pumping 'THAT MUCH' data, it's going to use resources... and unless you have a beefy dedicated box, there is a limit to how much it can process at a time....

With hosted video and music and etc as you indicate, your friend had best have copyright permissions to use it all too, or he'll be shut down by his host for piracy....

Surpass still offers the 'low end' machine for people who just want their own webserver, but don't plan to beat it to death. They're buying the reliability of 'it's all mine'.


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Dark Matter

Big John is correct about the bandwidth
(2 000 * 12) / 365 = 65.7534247 GB per day
(650 * 12) / 365 = 21.369863 GB per day, thats more then plenty

qwertykb - you are hosted here, did you not tell your friend to check the same hosting you have out??