The deals Im giving away are crazy - Im offering backup space, non-oversold, for only £0.03 per gigabyte. The small catch with that is that you have got to buy the biggest plan, and pay for it yearly, but still, the monthly small plans are a great deal. Server specs: 2x750GB HD 4GB RAM 2x3.00Ghz Intel Core2Duo 100mbit uplink Google: backup hosting - only a handful of providers come up, and they are selling space at crazy high prices, just click on one and saw 50GB going for £275/mo ?!?!?!?!! Heres what we are offering: There are none left of the large plan, only one in the first place, but he is on a free trial, if that expires it will become available. If anyone wanted the large one, PM me, and I can delete a few other plans, so that you can have the full 500GB Space, with no chance of overselling. These plans are VERY cheap, considering people are selling backup space normally at about $1 per GB, which is very expensive. You could offer it at a tiny fraction of that price, and this market is very un-competitive, with a good page rank/SEO, you could easily become a leading provider All the plans come with cPanel, and WHM. If your interested, you can order at http://cdkhosting.co.uk/clients/cart.php - Im trying to sell these off as fast as I can - So you are welcome to make an offer. Live support : livesupport(@t)cdkhosting.co.uk
So compared to the "expensive" servers, do you offer the same services to them? RAID protected hard drives? A raid setup, preferably one for redudency and increased speed. Comes with SSH,Samba,Rsync,FTP? Comes with good connections to different network providers? Can you provide a download link so I can check from different servers?
I haven't setup RAID on there - Thats one reason it is very cheap. If you want SSH, you can have it with reason. FTP comes as standard. Rsync is installed on the server, so you can use that if you need to. I dont know about Samba, but if anyones needs it, I can install it for you. There is a 100mbit connection, I dont know which bandwidth providers they are using - I think they have their own. But this is on their website: So you could argue that I am on a 'dedicated' 100mbit connection, if I am guaranteed that at all times. The server is from OVH. France-France (Within the network) went at 11MB/S avg. France-UK went at 6MB/S avg. Test file: http://power-server.co.uk/puppy-linux-speed-test.iso I also forgot to mention that this is 'eco-friendly' - The servers are water cooled, reducing they total energy consumption by about 10%. They also use '45nm' processors, which are 30% faster, and 30% more efficient. (All according to their website)
Please tell me what backup hosting is.. just a spare hosting account? Or does it have some special feature like auto-backup or something?
Yeah, it really is just normal hosting, but on a larger scale. For a standard website, you would want 500MB-5GB Space - But say you wanted to backup 100 websites, or an entire server, you would need a large amount of space, not too expensive, on large capacity servers. Rsync is a way to do backups incrementally, thus saving you a bit of bandwidth. Instead of transferring the entire server contents, 100GBs per day, just transfer what has changed, only a few GB per day. Just provides efficiency.
I see. So is this 'rysnc' built into cpanel or is a seperate script? I'm just trying to find out whether I can already provide it with the reseller hosting I have otherwise I'll get it from you
Rsync is a separate script, you can google it - Don't really know how ot explain it, but if you perchance needed to use rsync, it would be installed in a certain folder for. If your current hosting allows backups, then you would be able to do it there, if it is something like unmetered hosting then theres no way you would be allowed large files on there.
Can we use this for software & updates distribution? They would be copyrighted by me. And you won't be able to poke your nose in these are some will be decrypted as well - which means you seeing them would make you break the license agreement. Also, how secure is the server? I'd need you to be liable of any unauthorized entrances, I hope you understand how serious this is. Uptime % by SLA?
Software/updates would be fine with this. I wouldn't look at your software, because I have no real need to - but If a problem arose that I needed to, then I would have to. So I wont poke my nose around unless I had to, which is normally never. Ive got APF firewall installed, along with Brute Force Detection, but if that software is VERY precious, I wouldn't recommend shared hosting. I wouldn't take any liability if your data was lost/damaged/stolen. If you are going to be storing very sensitive data, you should encrypt it or put it on your own hardware/dedicated server. 99% uptime on this - I doubt the server will ever go down, ive currently only got 10 clients on this server, its been secured and hardened, so there isn't much reason for it to go down. UPDATE: The prices have changed, take a look at: http://cdkhosting.co.uk/clients/cart.php?gid=9 for pricing plans.
I knew: I wouldn't recommend shared hosting either. But I thought it would be great to have a mirror of the system to handle high traffic hours.