Hostgator Questions : Q About Unmanaged – HG’s Area 51

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Tho A few days ago I was saying that I won’t dare to upgrade to an unmanaged dedicated server. I’m rethinking that now.

Its been exactly two years that I’m here & I have to say, I’m pretty happy. A year ago, I did upgrade to reseller & I guess its about time to upgrade to dedi, cause I want to get rid of some limitation & I’m planing to move ahead in the business & go from being a freelancer to a small company that provides Web Design – Development services.

But before I do so, I have a batch of Qs. I’ll do send some to sales, to get official answers, but I’ll post those Qs here too cause for me, your experience is as important as the “official answer” and maybe more, as this is unmanaged server.

1. What is the Specifications of Unmanaged Server. Since there is no page for the unmanaged servers, what are the specifications that you got?? I’m interested in getting to know about the HARDWARE specifications & info about the 10/100 connection that the sever has (as I read the unmanaged are connected by a 10 connection). What SOFTWAREs are loaded in the box. (OS, Apache/PHP/MySQL versions, installed modules…. ) I want to know this as I want to have a local machine with the exact same (as much as possible) versions of softwares installed on it for testing.

What if I want to add another HD for backup? how much will that cost?

2. Does HG put any “hidden” limitations on the unmanaged servers other than the space & bandwidth (max upload file size, max execution time, error pages…)

3. Is overselling allowed on the unmanaged dedi? Although I don’t think I’ll be anywhere close to feel the need to do so, but a lot of clients are “fooled” by the BIG numbers & lets be honest… THEY DO LIKE THAT… sadly!!

4. Will HG transfer SOME of my current shared accounts? Keep in mind that I will change my main tld & username. I don’t want to transfer all the accounts & I want the transfers to be after a few weeks of the purchase. I want to be sure that things are working fine & only then do transfer SOME of my accounts.

5. What if things do go wrong? what is the worst case scenario that happened with you? other than having all your sites down, that would be a dead end scenario.

I surely will get a backup, but I mean what if I messed it up? How much time it should take to restore the backup? will I be able to do so? or I need to ask HG to do so. Does the “30 day money back” policy apply to this one too?

I did read on another thread about companies that would manage the server for 20 25$/month, any recommendations?

Will I be able to downgrade to a reseller plan if things do end in a dead end?

6. How hard it is? this Q is for people who had/have an unmanaged dedi. Although I think that I’m a pretty fast learner,I have to say that I’m a total newbie to *nix, the closest I have ever come to it is running Ubuntu Live for a couple of hours.

As said above, I want to get the unmanaged, test stuff & if I do feel pretty comfortable, only then I’ll transfer from the current reseller plan.

7. Different TLDs. As said above I will have a different TLD as the main account here because I want to have my official site up & running just in case the server went down so I can provide support to my clients.

In your opinion, what is the best practice in this?

this is it for now,
thanks in advance for taking the time & reading all these (or maybe you just scrolled to here, did u!?)
I’ll highly appreciate any answers

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