Ditto... i dont trust the lowest bidders as well. My boss is the one asking.
On Jan 24, 2008 1:08 PM, Gerald Timothy Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:52 +0800, Grace Naces wrote: > > > Unsa pinakapaspas na ISP sa Pilipinas? Pangcommercial unta. > > depends on what you want to pay. and interconnection sucks, > so if your target market is in the philippines you'd probably > want to be hosted at every major ISP (PLDT, Globe, Eastern > Telecom, Digitel, not sure of the others) so that at least > speed to their subscribers (and downstreams) would be fast. > you might be slow with some smaller players though (those > telcos that have their own links to the U.S. and don't > interconnect with the big 4). > > I would say that the thing to do, if you can afford it, is > to multi-home. Maybe multi-home according to ISP size/coverage > (e.g., biggest bandwidth with PLDT, smaller/reasonable bandwidth > with the others). and then have interesting routing rules > so that requests from PLDT have replies going out through the > PLDT link, etc. > > but i'm making all of that up grace. I have only looked at > the situation, not actually tried to get something like > that working. where i used to work I think they had three > bandwidth providers, or maybe three while i was there but > they switched one for the other. anyway, for reliability > (not just speed) multi-hosting is a good thing. > > jijo sevilla likes the hosting at tri-isys. i'm not quite > clear why. the discussion is in the plug archives. i think > tri-isys has good peering with all the major ISPs. > > btw, what would the bandwidth be used for nga? the only > reason to host *in*the*philippines* is because you're serving > the local market (maybe even some extreme things, e.g., > streaming video). and even then, e.g., inq7.net does not > host locally, they host in the U.S. > > you might want to specify your requirements and then shop > around for an ISP that will give you the service level > agreement that you require. or give the requirement to > all the ISPs and then choose the one with the lowest price > (or maybe the second lowest price, i never trust lowest > bidder :-). > > tiger > > _________________________________________________ > Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Mary Grace P. Naces Registered Linux User #395141 http://gwace.deviantart.com http://gracegabriel.multiply.com http://www.litratoz.com
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