Need a dedicated server?
We currently have at least 2 free slots/accounts on our dedicated server. It’s a machine in Germany similar to this offer. We pretty much just use if to have the freedom and flexibility to play. Subversion, weblogs, smtp server, webdav, java and ruby hosting …things like that. We are running Debian stable + backports currently, but I am also tempted to switch to Ubuntu (…but that’s to be discussed). Depending on how many people we find you should have at least around 10GB space and full root access. Rent is 45 EUR devided by the number of people. 2-3 more people would be nice so it would not be more than 10 EUR a month. If you known me or Marcus that would be a big plus.
Please contact one of us vie email if you are interested.
[...] Soon the contract for my dedicated server will run out. I was sharing a server from server4you.de with a few people. But more and more people dropped out and since we could not find people to fill the spot we decided to quit and move somewhere else. Well, that and the incredibly awful service. (Too many stories to tell!) Just to give some examples: When we got the server we wanted to run Debian instead of SuSE. The question whether they could just pop in a CD that we prepare was just refused without giving a reason. So we ended up installing Debian from the swap partition. Yay! But a much worse story is that hey refused to reboot my server when I was down in Australia. I didn’t have the password to the server admin at hand (I left the records in Germany and my parents where on vacation). Due to a special number you cannot even reach the support hotline from abroad. Somehow I worked out a different number and finally talked to them on the phone. So imagine - my server was down. No access to console. No access to the server admin website. I was explaining them the situation. I was able to give ALL my details. Customer number, of course even bank details etc. They still refused to reboot the server. They asked me to fax them a written request for a new admin password. As it was Saturday that would not be processed before Monday. Then they wanted to send me new credentials to my home address. That would have been at least 5 days downtime. The best thing - due to the time difference I was calling 20 minutes before the end of their business day. You know what? They just hung up on me! “Sorry, Sir I cannot help you”. I was almost getting mad. After some “meditation” I worked out the password and was able to reboot the server myself. So the downtime was just half a day. My complaint to the management was left unanswered. After they even f..cked up the billing several times I am soooo happy I finished moving all my service to a different provider yesterday. If you consider server4you - just don’t. They might have a competitive pricing - but it’s just so not worth it. [...]