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I have a rack at The Planet and have had no troubles what so ever. All they
provide me is the connectivity, nothing else. So I don�t depend on them for
any other services or server management.  I have not experienced any outages
at all. The staff has been very knowledgeable whenever I have needed any
help. That�s my two cents.

Dave


On 11/7/04 10:45 PM, "Daniel Elmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> We have several servers at the Planet and while they have a great set of
> backbone providers and good rates, their staff is very amateur.
> 
> <rant>
> Once they had me on the same switch as a customer that was running a network
> traffic analyzer that was causing packet loss to my box. The lady on tech
> support that night tried to tell me my IPSec settings where incorrect, after
> questioning her I found that she knew nothing about IPsec and was just doing
> "routine connectivity checks" on me. After a few hours they finally called
> in a network admin to sniff one of their routers and located the problem
> customer.
> </rant>
> 
> They have twice issued me IP's and then took them back. No fun when you have
> to wait for DNS to propagate again.
> 
> My experience with their accounting department leads me to believe they keep
> all their customer accounts on note cards in shoe boxes.
> 
> Their routers do seem to have problems with network spikes, boxes go down
> for 2 to 3 minutes randomly usually once a week.
> 
> I'm sure all hosts have their problems, these are just the ones I've
> experienced, I'm actually a fairly happy customer.
> 
> - Daniel Elmore
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Jake
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: CI Host
> 
> Wow.... so much for the Planet!
> 
> But definitely sound like CIhost is out!
> 
> Jake
> 
> Jacob Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Jake,
>> The Planet has been down 6 times in the last two weeks.  They say
>> it's their provider, but say they have 18 connections coming in and tracert
>> says it's their routers with the problems.  Today they were up and down
> from
>> 3-6 today, even theplanet.com.  Only twice has been during business hours
>> and less than an hour, but anything over 10 minutes makes my phone lines
>> light up.  
>> My clients have started to complain.  The Planet closed my tickets
>> requesting an explanation with no explanation.  They have double billed me
>> in the past, among other customer service problems.  I've reached my point
>> of frustration with them and I am thinking of moving my servers.
>> Now I just have to find someone who doesn't go down!  Thanks for the
>> advice, I'll move on and check out colo4dallas.com.  I currently pay around
>> $700 a month for bandwidth and space, I expect a little quality for my
>> money, silly me.
>> 
>> Jacob
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>> Of Jake
>> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:41 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: CI Host
>> 
>> A buddy of mine just moved off of them... they shut down his account three
>> times with "abuse" as the reason. That one word explanation was he could
> get
>> out of them, and they never notified him of any problems. He was also
> having
>> regular (but not frequent) outages to the facility itself without
>> notification.
>> 
>> All in all, I'd say look elsewhere. I've heard good things about The Planet
>> lately.
>> 
>> Jake
>> 
>> Jacob Cameron wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> Has anyone out there used CI-Host for co-lo?
>>> 
>>> I'm looking at good or bad experiences to help decide if I want to
>>> move some servers to them.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jacob
>>> 
>>> Jacob Cameron
>>> Blue Lantern, Inc.
>>> (972) 226-9595
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> _http://www.blue-lantern.com_ <http://www.blue-lantern.com/>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
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