egghelp/eggheads community Discussion of eggdrop bots, shell accounts and tcl scripts. 2002-05-14T09:06:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/app.php/feed/topic/1115 2002-05-14T09:06:00-04:00 2002-05-14T09:06:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=6911#p6911 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]>
On 2002-05-14 03:17, Bever wrote:
But they are not really cheap...
You get what you pay for.

And that is Quality service.

You get more than with most other providers.

Unlimted e-mail addresses (anything@username.ukshells.co.uk) and username@ukshells.co.uk
50MB disk space (this is quite a lot)
VHost'd webspace (www.username.ukshells.co.uk)
Gurenteed 24/7 support.

The staff are frieldly and the service is second to non.

Subscribe to them for 1 year, and a cheaper provider of your choice, that you feel would provide the same sort of service.

After you have done this, I can gurentee you will say that the price is justified.

Also note, they are a 100% in house hosted provider, located in the UK. I am am wondering if you know the costs involved in quality links into the UK backbone. Besides this, only a handfull of sites can actualy be provided.

In the US, it is possible to take a backbone link, into you house, with minimal setup costs.

In the UK, this would involve planning permission, and a fee per 100 meters of cable it take from the exchange (And we are talking about data exchange, to a telephone exchange).

This is true for fiber, and dedicated single use ISDN (above 2 channels).

For a 1MB feed to my house, 2 years ago, it would have cost £7000 setup. and then £1500 a month fee. This was 2 years ago,a nd the prices have gone down, but the prices are still out of reach for many startup companies.

I also ask, if any1 from the top 50 users, in the uptime charts, can state what type of provider they are using. Not what provider, just what type (own system, commercial shell, dedicated system, work box), and the price. Then we will have a better idea, as to where stability lies. In the price, or in the service provided.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Tue May 14, 2002 9:06 am

]]> 2002-05-14T07:39:00-04:00 2002-05-14T07:39:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=6907#p6907 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> Statistics: Posted by Petersen — Tue May 14, 2002 7:39 am

]]> 2002-05-14T05:17:00-04:00 2002-05-14T05:17:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=6905#p6905 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> Statistics: Posted by Bever — Tue May 14, 2002 5:17 am

]]> 2002-05-13T13:48:00-04:00 2002-05-13T13:48:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=6888#p6888 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]>
Untill 2 weeks ago, a bot called splitatom, was sitting in 38th place in the uptime charts (13th out of the eggdrops).

This bot was mine, and had been hosted on UKshells.

With air conditioned rackmounts, 24/7 in house support, you can't go wrong.

Shell accounts are not there main goal any more, but they still support the service 100%

And if you wonder why I lost my place in the uptime charts. There site in london had a power out. They do have backup generators, that kick in beforwe the UPS units die. Yet deisel does not last forever, and you cant fill a deisel tank while it's running like a petrol tank.

I do have a second account with them too. 6 months ago, they had problems with this server, where the machine was dieing once a week. This lasted for 2 1/2 months, until they where able to fully diagnose the fault.

Out of 20, they would get a 19. The other 1 went missing when I lost my place in the uptime charts :razz:

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Mon May 13, 2002 1:48 pm

]]> 2002-05-05T08:19:00-04:00 2002-05-05T08:19:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=6723#p6723 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> now for the same price i use iwsds.net for around the same price and get 3 eggdrops per account.
so far i have not had any downtime :smile:

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BogeyBum on 2002-05-05 06:20 ]</font>

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun May 05, 2002 8:19 am

]]> 2002-03-24T05:26:00-04:00 2002-03-24T05:26:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=5656#p5656 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> and also need good shell provider name for my eggdrops...

Thanks...
Unet
|RadicaL|

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Mar 24, 2002 5:26 am

]]> 2002-03-19T19:03:00-04:00 2002-03-19T19:03:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=5537#p5537 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> http://www.complete-hosting.com and I find their service very stable. Also level of support they provide is one of the best ive ever had, thats why i stick with them because various other shell accounts I have had, takes ages to reply to any support questions you ask

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Mar 19, 2002 7:03 pm

]]> 2002-02-23T10:03:00-04:00 2002-02-23T10:03:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=4861#p4861 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> http://www.uksolutions.co.uk/ukshells/ I've an account on there and they seem alot more stable than others i've used.

Statistics: Posted by romprod — Sat Feb 23, 2002 10:03 am

]]> 2002-02-22T14:01:00-04:00 2002-02-22T14:01:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=4839#p4839 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> http://www.complete-hosting.com I have another much cheaper one, much more reliable, and fast, very little strain on the servers, often showing load as "0.0 0.0 0.0" :smile: Thats, http://www.netplayuk.com (I think)

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:01 pm

]]> 2002-02-22T11:30:00-04:00 2002-02-22T11:30:00-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=4834#p4834 <![CDATA[UK Shells]]> So I don't sign up with them by mistake :smile:

z_one

Statistics: Posted by z_one — Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:30 am

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Thanks for any suggestions

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Feb 22, 2002 10:18 am

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