A comparative analysis of Web-hosts

Hey guys!!...I'm back..Just to clairify, i did respond to some thread with "pm me" or something like that, and thats why i was banned. Also, the $5 plan is closed(don't know if i already said that), and the $10 plan is going to be open, as we got a new $10 node, due to the popularity of the plan.


Highest quality reseller accounts on DP!...These plans will be hosted on a node with:

• AT LEAST 5x 15,000rpm scsi drives raid5
• 4x dual core xeons or 2x quad core xeons
• 2 or 3 redundant power supplies
• 100mbit unmetered uplink
• The latest cpanel
• 99.9% uptime guarentee(actual network downtime was 3 mins 45 secs in 6 months)
• True 24/7 ticket support

These plans will start at only $15/mo! Are you tired of these reseller accounts that are down for over a few hours per month! Well look no further! Our reseller accounts are hosted on server that are FULLY redundant, no more "no raid" or "no redundancy at all"...Thus, our reseller accounts and VPS's are the fastest and most reliable! No other host on DP uses high quality 15,000RPM scsi drives, like we do! Lets take a look at exactly how much faster our IO is than other hosts.

An analysis of other hosting provider's hardware:

Each of our 15,000RPM scsi drives is roughly twice as fast for total bandwidth, and seek/latency than a standard 7,200RPM sata drive. Since we use 5 of them in a single server, and raid5, we have the total performance of 4 of those drives(5-1 because of the parity used for redundancy). That leads to a performance of over EIGHT times the performance of a single sata drive(the 256MB cache of the raid controller makes it closer to 9). Also, any single drive in the array can fail, and there will be no downtime at all, and no data will be lost! Now, lets look at what other hosts use:

Scenario 1: NO raid

In this scenario, as earlier stated, no raid is used, and our arrays are almost 9 times faster for reads, and writes. Also, if a drive fails in this array(very likely when IO is put on a single sata drive), you lose all your data, and chances are you wont be able to get a backup.

Scenario 2: raid1 with 2x sata drives
This scenario is the second most common, after a single sata drive. This means that one drive in the array can fail, with no problem. Write performance is that of a single drive,and read performance is almost twice as fast as a single drive, or as fast as one of our scsi drives. This means that our drives are 8 times faster for writes, and 4-5 times faster for reads.

Scenario 3: raid10 with 4 drives

This scenario is the third most common, and involves 2 sets of raid0 arrays, that are mirrored for redundancy. This give the performance of double read, and write speed. Our drives are thus 4 times faster for reads, and writes.


As you can see, no hosts around on DP can get faster Disk IO than we do, and has better redundancy. Also, a SATA drive is almost 3 times more likely to fail than a scsi drive, as SATA was designed with the desktop market in mind, so they weren't built for the intense disk IO of an overloaded server. Now, lets compare prices:

A single 250GB 7,200RPM sata drive sells for around $50(which is the most used drive in alot of these hosts)

A single 146GB 15,00RPM scsi drive sells for around $250

Now, we are selling resellers for less than a 40% premium than standard reseller hosting, and our drives are almost 10 times more expensive than sata drives, and we also use higher quality HP servers, which is rarely used in the hosting industry. Our network downtime has also been 3 minutes, and 45 seconds in the past 6 months. Think about this, and decide for yourself, what host you are going to use.