Too bad they have traffic limitation.. and kinda expensive for the disk spaces :-/ ...
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Too bad they have traffic limitation.. and kinda expensive for the disk spaces :-/ ...
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just read the 8 pages posts of sct, seems it's going downhill, avearge 2mb is just like kimsufi non-sla but much more to pay, no need to mention the set up fee.
I've been following this thread for a while and decided to register to be able to answer.
I am an employee of server.lu (root eSolutions actually) and I know what is going on behind the scenes.
I would not compare our product with those offered from OVH, since we have a different approach. We do not limit our customers in doing what they do, but there are a few things one should consider:
- No serious ISP is inviting P2P / seedbox users into their network
- Our FAQ says that P2P is tolerated but not really welcome either
- Instead of kicking users by limiting their inferface speed we are working with QoS, giving all P2P applications much lower priority than critical applications like video streaming or VoIP
That being said, I really do not understand what you are all whining about. Paying 49 EUR and expecting endless speeds to most likely share stuff that probably isn't always legal just doesn't seem right to me.
I understand why Oles from OVH has released new SLAs. If everybody keeps scratching on the 100 MBIT roof, then there is something wrong in the maths and prices need to be adjusted. This is not where we intend to go at any time, but seeing people complain about speeds they don't want to pay is somewhat selfish. Even ISPs need to pay for their bandwidth, and trust me - it is a lot.
We noticed our bandwidth double within only 6 weeks. That is why we are increasing backbone capacity on December 3rd (additional 10GBit Link to London), making us the largest backbone in Luxembourg with very good peerings to the US, UK, DE, NL and FR.
If you have any questions about our services, please feel free to ask me or our support email, but if your intentions are purley focussed on discounts on a single server, then I can already predict the answer...
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^ Yup thts wat i was trying to say but tried not to spill the beans as its from ScT
Last edited by apextwin146; 11-30-2008 at 02:01 PM.
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i will not be giving them my business; p2p or otherwise.
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@dwdm,
appreciate your honesty, but the reality is comsumers are very likely to choose wherever to spend their cash simply based on the price and service they expect. the more money they pay the better quality they expect. this is a very competitive business with lots of unexpected new developments involved. as soon as there is a better deal emerged, other ppl will know.
just like the sudden change of policy from rapidshare, so many ppl left them for its competitors simply because they couldnt get what they wanted. I would say dont blame the players, blame the game.the private-tracker situation determines that the proportion of p2p/torrent users in this business will only be getting bigger and bigger so their will be more demands. whoever can cope with strong demands under the pressure of credit crunch will make more profit. ovh's change has reshuffled the cards, so let the new game begin.
I personally still on the old ovh contracts and I have to say for the same money and set up fee many others like me will go with whoever can guarantee the speed I need.glad I still have time to find my next provider.
p.s. does this 'additional 10GBit Link to London' mean many new users will be getting UK IPs ? not a good idea if so cos p2p are getting really dodgy in the uk. Many user in the uk wouldnt want to have UK IPs as matter of fact.
Last edited by johhn; 11-30-2008 at 10:42 PM.
The 10GB upgrade to London has nothing to do with UK IP addresses. This is only a peering/transit upgrade from LUXEMBOURG to LONDON. This is BGP4 level, but all our servers remain in Luxembourg, 2 floors below our offices.
As I mentioned before, we have no kick-out policy for P2P customers and we will always do our best to improve speeds as needed. Customers who have been with us for 1-2 years know that we upgrade our backbone capacities almost every 4-8 weeks and that we never cap any customers who are consuming a lot of bandwidth.
I am not asking you guys to trust us, but based on the fact that for instance we advertise for DS2000 with 160GB, but we already unofficially provide bigger CPU and 320GB disks, should show that we are very generous people - as long as the customer is also showing some respect towards us. The reason why we do not advertise for these bigger disks yet is that we still have some preconfigured servers with the smaller disks but we try to release the new ones for all our new customers.
Anyway... If you guys noticed speed limitations, then it is just temporary and you should expect a new boost 2 days from now. Even now all our outbound links are not really saturated, but given the recent events we made the choice to do some upgrades in order to prevent real saturation combined with packet loss.
If you dropped the setup fee id like to test one of your servers for a month.Originally Posted by dwdm
If i like the performance i would order a few more from you and sign up to your reseller program.
I have many customers from another provider also who could be intrested.
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Last edited by slayer2005; 12-01-2008 at 07:53 AM.
dwdm- Good to hear the speed restriction will be removed in 2 days.
When will server.lu offer a Windows 2003 Server option? I saw it mentioned that it was available for 100Euro setup and 15 Euro a month.
This is a) not mentioned on your site as an option and b) Any chance the setup fee will be removed as most other providers do not charge a setup fee for windows, only a monthly fee.
Last edited by Neoworld; 12-01-2008 at 08:27 AM.
dwdm - thanks for giving us an update, lol you don't see that too often these days. Can't say ive ever seen someone from OVH or Hosting-IE in here.
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