Ten Reasons To Rent Your Server From Holdouts


  1. We have been in business since 2001.
  2. Our prices are low. We may not be the lowest, but we are competitive and support our services.
  3. You get a web based control panel for your game or voice server. Using the control panel you can change passwords, server name, stop/restart server, etc. This is very helpful for Ventrilo servers as there is no easy way to maintain your server using just the client software.
  4. We own all of our servers and switches. If there are any hardware issues, we have access and spare parts to fix them. We are not colocated at a large NOC renting our hardware like many of our new competitors. They probably can't even tell you the brand of ethernet switch they are hooked too (Holdouts uses Cisco model ethernet switches).
  5. We have our OWN connections to the internet with multiple providers. We have our own OC-3 line connected to CompleteWeb.net's multi-homed network (Wiltel, ATDN, Time Warner). We also have a 100 Mbit connection to the Cogent network. The connections are hooked to a Cisco 6500 series router that we also own. Our Cisco ethernet switches are hooked directly to our Cisco router. 
  6. Our servers are fast! All run on the secure and fast operating system LINUX. All of our machines are dual Intel Xeon machines. The dual Xeon machines are either Supermicro servers or blades in a IBM blade server. Most have 2G or more of RAM and all have fast SCSI drives (except the IBM blades which have special hard drives).
  7. We support our services. We monitor all of our servers 24 X 7. If any machine fails, a support person is paged immediately to fix the problem. We have spare machines that can be used in the event we can't get a machine back up because of hardware failure. You get a web control panel with your server that can be used to enter support tickets. Any general questions or issues can be asked via email or the ticket system (or the "Contact Us" tab above) and are answered promptly. You can also call us if you need help as well.
  8. Word of mouth. Ask anybody that has ever used Holdouts if they were happy with their service. We do our best to keep people up and LAG free. We will be more than happy to provide testimonials from our current customers (we are in process of putting together a page with testimonials to link).
  9. We do not overload our game servers. I have read some ridiculous numbers in forums from new game server companies. They think they can run ten (or more) game servers on one box based on CPU graphs. They have no clue about server load and what games require. Because of reason 1 (us being in business since 2001) we know how many servers we can run as well as what games run better on one box. And it isn't ten.
  10. We do not overload our Teamspeak/Ventrilo servers. We have a large number (and growing) of dual CPU boxes devoted to Teamspeak or Ventrilo only. That is all we run on those machines and we keep the server load very LOW. Some of our competitiors are leasing one or two boxes from a NOC and putting either way too much Teamspeak/Ventrilo, or combining with game servers together on one box (LAG city).