Domain WHOIS privacy?

[Ritchie200]

Question for all you website owner/operators....  Do you have Domain WHOIS privacy?  Seems expensive, but may be worth while to keep the creepers away.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Thanks!
Jim

[John]

I do not have it, and to date haven't had any problem. I think the type of site you run makes a difference as to what kind of attention you draw?

[EL34]

I have one domain with it, but several without it

It's only $9.95 a year more at IX webhosting

how much are you being quoted?

[Ritchie200]

I thought it was $9.95 a MONTH at IX!  I need to go back and re-read... 

I like all the articles - obviously written by privacy providers!  Then there is the one in a million written by an average Joe questioning the need.  Thanks for the input!

Jim

[EL34]

Hmm, I think it's $9.95 per year extra
I clicked on one of my domains that does not have it and it said $9.95 a year additional

[Ritchie200]

Yeah, you are correct.  The one I was looking at was for ssl certificate and some other stuff.  Did you upgrade to the new Blade servers?  Supposed to be able to run faster, jump higher, and turn your keyboard into gold before your eyes....   Man I like IX!  Thanks for pointing me in their direction!

Jim

[EL34]

Not sure what a blade server is?

I have two windows servers and a Linux server

[Ritchie200]

Oh, they have a new server bank made up of Dell Blade systems.  They are supposed to be much faster - for an extra buck a month.

I had to use their help over the holidays.  During the week they have US support.  Weekends and holidays are from the Ukrainian "branch".  They were FANTASTIC!  Like I said, I like these guys.

Jim

[PRR]

> Not sure what a blade server is?

Computer used to be a room full of racks.

When ARPA started, a DEC-8 computer was a 8U rack box (often a full rack with all the extras).

IBM PC/XT/AT is roughly a 4U rack size.

Then came 2U and 1U rack boxes.

You can get 42 1U machines in a rack.

What's smaller than 1U?

They consolidate the power supply, fans, and some I/O in a several-U chassis with a bunch of slots for "blades". A blade is a small computer in sub-rack size. You put 8 or 16 or more blades in one chassis. You can swap-out blades for failure or upgrade.

I do not see why you or Jim care. At your end, computer is computer. Any CPU or MHz you can get in a blade you can get in a 1U rack. If you are very hot to trot you can probably stay one step ahead with generic motherboards than with proprietary blades.

And unless you pay for dedicated hardware, if the CPU is so fast it loafs, the hosting boss will just put more virtual machines per physical machine until complaints rise. Maybe for a buck a month extra, they haven't got them fully overloaded yet.

Where it matters is hosting outfits that pay for floor space (or own a floor and don't care to buy more floor). Blades can triple the number of CPUs per rack.

I suspect the "able to run faster, jump higher" promo is more about benefit to the hosting operation (charging users extra to finance the transition to blades) than about benefit to you or me.

[EL34]

Thanks for the explain PRR

Sounds like my servers are just fine where they are