17:00 <Snow-Man> pabs: Dude, ThePlanet rocks. :)
17:00 <pabs> ?
17:01 <moss> I think this is the beginning of a 'my colo is better than your colo'
17:01 <pabs> aaah okay
17:01 <pabs> Snow-Man: cool, tell me about htem
17:01 -!- lilyj [~jfuller@internal.vic.com] has quit ["Leaving"]
17:01 <pabs> moss: it's okay,i'll diffuse the situation by being interested and non-confrontational
17:02 <Snow-Man> pabs: Well, their ticketing system doesn't suck ass (uh, like, they have one..)
17:02 <Snow-Man> Their web interface is very nice and provides specific information about your hardware details, bandwidth utilization, they have monitoring services that you can set up for free
17:03 <pabs> k
17:03 <Snow-Man> And you can set up things for them to do if one of the monitors goes off.
17:03  * radsaq goes the fuck home
17:03 <pabs> that is cool
17:03 <Snow-Man> "If it stops responding, reboot it"
17:03 <Snow-Man> etc.
17:03 <pabs> what's up with pricing, bandwidth, etc?
17:03 <pabs> and ToS?
17:03 <Snow-Man> They also set me up with some remote management shit, ie: I can issue a reset command remotely, or get on console remotely.
17:04 <moss> it'll cost a nickel, you get 1k per month in bandwidth and the ToS is that it's actually an MS box
17:04 <Snow-Man> pabs: The biggest pricing difference is that there's a large setup fee to get the good monthly costs w/ ServerMatrix/ThePlanet
17:04 <Snow-Man> Otherwise, the costs are about the same monthly.
17:04 <pabs> define "arge"
17:04 <pabs> +l
17:04 <moss> a billion dollars
17:04 <Snow-Man> haha.
17:05 <Snow-Man> pabs: Well, the one I went with was $200 for the setup.
17:05 <Snow-Man> Which makes it $109/mo, for a much nicer box than what I had before.
17:05 <moss> Snow-Man sold his next born and a child to be named later, just to cover the fee
17:05 <pabs> Snow-Man: cool
17:05 <Snow-Man> It's actually 1200GB/mo too.
17:06 <Snow-Man> And they have a page that says about how much you've used so far, and a total usage estimate for the month. :)
17:06 <Snow-Man> Allowed Usage: 1200 Gigabytes (RAW)
17:06 <pabs> dope
17:06 <Snow-Man> Quick RAW Usage: 67 Megabytes
17:06 <Snow-Man> Estimated RAW Usage: 415.4 Megabytes
17:06 <Snow-Man> Obviously, I'm not exactly in any danger.
17:07 <Snow-Man> pabs: They also give you a VNET'd set of IPs..
17:07 <Snow-Man> It's phatty, you're on your own little network.
17:07 <Snow-Man> Like, my IP is .186, my upstream is .185, and I've got .187, .188, .189 and .190
17:07 <pabs> cool
17:07 <Snow-Man> +too
17:07 <Snow-Man> Yeah, it's awesome. :)
17:08 <Snow-Man> They also list out exactly where it is:
17:08 <Snow-Man> Location: AG13
17:08 <Snow-Man> Switch: ag13-CAT2950T-24-1
17:08 <pabs> cool
17:08 <pabs> so you can tlel the tech exactly wher eit is?
17:08 <Snow-Man> Switch IP: 10.0.5.111
17:08 <Snow-Man> Switch Port: 14
17:08 <pabs> oh just so you know in general
17:09 <Snow-Man> Well, the data center's in Texas, a much better place for one than, uhm, florida.
17:09 <Snow-Man> pabs: Oh, and they're not in SPEWS. :)
17:09 <Snow-Man> They also have bandwidth graphs for all their upstream links. :)
17:09 <pabs> NICE!
17:09 <pabs> (the no SPEWS bit)
17:09 <Snow-Man> Yeah, that's definitely one bonus to being there.
17:10 <pabs> how much was the setup fee?
17:10 <Snow-Man> yer a monkey.
17:10 <moss> a billion dollars
17:10 <Snow-Man> 17:07 <Snow-Man> pabs: Well, the one I went with was $200 for the setup.
17:10 <pabs> oh okay
17:10 <pabs> sorry
17:10 <Snow-Man> They also have a web interface to view invoices, change CC's, etc.
17:11 <pabs> das iz good
17:14 <pabs> Snow-Man: what's the URL of this place?
17:14 <pabs> i'm gonna bookmark it for later
17:14 <Snow-Man> http://www.servermatrix.com/ is the place to go to for the cheap unmanaged servers.
17:15 <pabs> k
17:15 <Snow-Man> http://www.theplanet.com is the URL of the 'main' place.
17:15 <Snow-Man> Basically, they're the same company, but one's the 'el-cheapo unmanaged services' and the other is 'fully managed' stuffs.
17:16 <Snow-Man> They started out as a fully managed colocation facility, so there's alot of shit that they've developed to help them w/ that which you get to use even for the unmanaged boxes.
17:17 <pabs> k
17:17 <pabs> so check out both basically
17:17 <Snow-Man> yea, but when you go to order, you'll want to do it through the servermatrix.com side.
17:18 <pabs> alright
17:18 <pabs> Snow-Man: thanks for the info
17:19  * pabs wanders off for a bit
17:19 <pabs> (i bookmarked all teh sties so i can look into it later)