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I’ve seen a couple negative reviews about IGSOBE from those who may have had a experience for whatever reason. I don’t work for them so I’ll refrain from commenting, but my experience was positive so don’t base your decision on the few bad ones alone. My sites not finished yet but you can see it at http://ximiz.com



I like hundreds of others was drawn to the amazing prices IGSOBE was offering during their Christmas promotions. Great hardware on a gigabit line for less than I was paying for a P4 on a shared 100mbit? I wasn’t about to pass that up, scam or not, I can risk $50 to find out :D



After all was said in done on irc I had ordered the following.



2x Xeon 3.06 | 4GB RAM | 400GB HD | 10TB transfer | 1000mb port | No setup fee



1.) I was told up front the equipment I wanted was not currently in stock and that if I wanted to proceed I would have to wait for ordered and shipped, many other users were already doing this so I accepted and put in my order.



2.) I was given the fedex tracking information for this order so I’d know when it was going to arrive, if it took longer than expected, there’s no one to blame but fedex.



3.) When the fedex shipment arrived I asked for an eta on how long till they got around to mine and was told it could be a few days because there were a lot of servers to setup with the hardware that was ordered.



4.) I ended up having to wait several days for the installs ahead of my order in the queue to be taken care of, but IGSOBE did fairly compensated me for my time, something they didn’t have to do as I had no prior arrangement of what would happen if my install took longer to complete.



5.) When I say I was compensated fairly I don’t mean they gave me a coupon for McDonalds (not that i’d turn it down lol) but John gave me a hardware upgrade to 2x Opteron 246s instead of the slower Xeons that I had ordered at no additional fee. I was also given 10 days of free time to my billing agreement.



So hopefully what you can take from this, is that not all experiences from any company are alike and more often than not there are external factors for the differences. Some people are impatient and can’t be asked to wait for a good deal, I waited and am glad I did. Now that the Christmas rush is over I’d imagine the wait times are a lot less aswell.



Oh and I did a speedtest for those of you interested. Thats 41MB/s with a capital MB, so around 330megabits. Had I a bigger file to test i’m sure it would have kept climbing.



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My conclusion? IGSOBE offers affordable dedicated server solutions cheaper than the rest, with speeds that make your 100mbit hosts feel all dirty.