It's also hard to believe a big hosting company wouldn't provide or at least specify the server, I would expect them to just ask for rackspace, power, bandwidth, and maybe remote hands on a per-hour basis.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 10:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Dedicated server On 10/16/20 8:28 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > This is from a real, current customer, right? > > Whenever I get inquiries about dedicated servers out of the blue, it’s > a scam. > Yeah all of the ones I get just look like someone wanting to make a spam run, especially when they say yeah this one low power server needs a /24 worth of IP addresses. Yeah right. Either I ignore them or tell them we don't offer that service, depends how generous I'm feeling that day. But there are still legitimate needs for bare metal or dedicated servers; cloud service costs can escalate quickly. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
