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Originally posted by Lensman
Fully managed FreeBSD machine with 700gb transfer, $199/mo.
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Thats a nice price. You guys should lighten up on Lens a little, you are comparing a fully managed service here vs. an unmanaged one.
Course, he brought it on himself with his mistatements about Rackshack.
The best way for ISPs like Jupiter to compete with Rackshack is to stress the value of the management. In my opinion about half or more of the people with Rackshack servers should have them taken away. They know nothing about Linux, don't keep current on critical updates and jeopardize the whole server farm when they get taken over for spam or DOS attacks.
And invariably they crybaby all over the place when they loose their server.
The industry has a place for both managed and unmanaged servers. When I hear people say how easy it is to manage rackshack servers its a clue they don't know what they are doing.
Proper linux administration takes a lot of time each month. If its totally 100% easy you are skipping some important things.