I'm a little strict on hosting because my clients pay for 100% uptime. I do not rely on their internal ping alerts as they are internal to the hosting facility and they do not know when they themselves are down most the time. As yesterday they were up and down for hours and I never got a notification from them, but from my internal system, then I called and they knew about it already, of course.
I monitor my servers myself from two different locations (My main office and my accounting office), I do an up check every 5 minutes to pull the name 'texas' from a state table in SQL server to test that their up and my database servers are up. If both fail within 5 minutes of each other I get a text alert on my cell phone. Jacob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ferguson Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CI Host I don't know about this. I've not received any complaints over the last couple of weeks from my customers and I've only seen the ping alerts hit once in the last couple of weeks and that was only for a few minutes. Anyway, I have also had a very good experience at colo4dallas. A client of mine has two machines there and they are very helpful. I would suggest going down there and taking a tour. Ferg -----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/> >> >> >> >> > > >---------------------------------------------------------- >To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm >To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------- >To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm >To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
