December 22, 2009 @ 11:53 am 
Via this WHT offer. IdeaStack, whom labelled itself as “India Web Hosting”, has some holidays special — 33% off recurring discount with coupon code HOLIDAYS. That cuts their “Silver” page to $6/month (well, actually $6.03/month at checkout). You get
- 200MB guaranteed/300MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage
- 80GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ
No idea where the servers are. Their website is hosted with WebNX in Los Angeles. Can’t even resolve the IP addresses of their name servers (n1-3.ideastack.com), although from the glue records, they probably belong to the same physical box (FAIL!). Domain has been registered since 2005, although not much review can be found. It’s owned by a software engineer in India so I guess it would be better than teenagers making extra cash during holidays.
Update: As per comment from IdeaStack, their servers are with Limestone Networks (Dallas TX) and Burst (Scranton PA).
Gotta admit that I’m looking at the MX records myself for the domain. Looks like they forward to gmail.com or whatever that service from Google is. (I forget it’s name.)
The glue not being set is also an issue with me. Looks like it’s supposed to be using nameservers from verygoodserver.com which is a blank page. Hmmm….
lets be suspicious of them for not offering ram in the usual increments too!
I have used for a month only. They setup wrong spec for the VPS I ordered and never fixed it before I switch to another provider.
Well, they still not get this fixed. Just check the link on WHT talk at the beginning of this post. and http://ideastack.com/vps.html and you will see the in-consistency of spec.
I was ordered the gold plan by the way.
@JC — yes I have noticed that as well, as it says 256MB on the WHT offer page, but only 200MB in the order page.
I guess that’s another +1 for dodgyness?
While I agree with the differences being a sign, I don’t think memory amounts can be a good sign of dodgyness. I know in my own servers, we use 12 gigs of memory, 2 sticks of 2 gigs and 2 sticks of 4 gigs. 12 gigs of memory is not something found is most servers. (They originally had 4 gigs each. We got a deal on the 4 gig sticks. We just added them in. What else we going to do with the 2 gig sticks?)
No. I wasn’t referring to the amount being 200MB — after all it’s just a container and the provider can set whatever weird number that’s not a power of 2. I was referring to the amount being inconsistent on the setup and offering page.
I know. I was just supporting the the memory amounts that hosts set their systems to shouldn’t be used as a yardstick.
The differences between the advert copy should though. We had another one like that a few days ago I believe.
Hi,
This is shazim from IdeaStack to clear the confusion we have servers from Limestone networks and burst.net
We are a registered company and we are into serious business
@comment1 – drmike, Google Apps does have a pretty decent uptime record, probably much better than a mx handler running on one single box – plus they have a paid option, so it could be that