I’m glad that I can target your attention to a very good web hosting provider based out of Lisbon, Portugal. It is called Rackspot. I had a chance to meet the executive team of the company during the web hosting conference WorldHosting Days 2011 in Germany and i’m impressed of the way Nuno Viera, the CEO of the company and his team do business. Let me tell you why Rackspot is a good company to host for dedicated hosting.
The first good reason for this is that the company, owned by NFSI Telecom has an excellent data center located in Lisbon Portugal. You can have a virtual tour of Rackspot data center. The company have conveniently placed a video on their website.
RackSpot network – something many web hosts can not afford
The NFSI data center, the company that operates RackSpot has a plenty of IP transit providers which create an excellent network for the company’s customers.
RackSpot has 10 GbE lines to Tata Communications, Telia Sonera and 2 x 10 GbE to Cogent. It also maintains peering connections to GigaPIX – 2 x 10 GbE, to GigaPIX Porto – 1 GbE, to Espanix – 1 GbE and to Portugal Telecom – 1 GbE.
The company also has interconnections between its 3 data centers based out of Lisbon, Madrid and Porto. All 3 RackSpot operated data centers are connected with redundant 2 x 10 GbE lines.
You can trust the reliability of Rackspot’s netowork, not because my review or because their claim it is reliable. The Rackspot network is monitored by Netcraft, one of the most trusted monitoring bodies in Internet. You can see what is the average RTT to RackSpot datacenter sent from New York, Pensivania, Virginia, Phoenix (AR), San Jose, (CA) in the U.S., from Vancouver, Canada, London, United Kingdom, Romania and Italy.
Very good dedicated server offerings at nice prices
The dedicated server offerings of Rackspot definitely deserve your attention. The company has just released a Dedicated plans based on the new Intel processors I5 and I7. An Intel Core I5 2500 3.3Ghz powered server with 8GB DDR3 RAM and 2 X 1TB SATA3 Hard drives in RAID-1 plus 10,000 GB monthly bandwidth on a 100 Mbps port costs €125 per month (monthly payments) and €104/month (2 year contract).
Another dedicated server offering based on Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz processor with 16 GB DDR RAM, Hybrid HDD and 2.5 GB monthly traffic connected at 100 Mbps port costs less than €200 euro (it is actually €185,42 per month on the 24 month contract). The reason for me not to be able to provide the monthly price of this solution is that at the time I’m writing this (March 30, 11.00 am GMT) those servers are currently sold-out. So you can imagine that there is a huge demand for such configurations. RackSpot seems to update their offerings a few times a week or even every day, but as you can imagine I would not go over this review to post their offerings. The best anyone who needs a reliable and powerful dedicated server solution could do is go to their website and to speak to them.
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