Is block at a routing level that you or is it going to be an API level? What I'm wondering is if read only access to my updates will still work. I have features of my various blogs that update to twitter but more importantly they show my twitter status.
Also a few of my development tools I've written for Twitter I host at The Planet. I'm not really setup to move at the moment. Been with The Planet for 4 years (my servers up times is are at 2.5 years now). The only problem I ever have is that someone outright blocks the IP range. The Planet gives benefit of the doubt to its customers usually and that is because of their uptime guarantee policy because if they pull everything that has an abuse claim and it turns out to false (and in many cases hard to prove) then they would have to pay for the downtime. A lot of customers are hosting their own shared or VPS hosting solutions at The Planet, so many times the violators are customers of customers so it takes time to trickle down. Before the EV1 and The Planet merger (to create the new "The Planet"), I was with the old The Planet. In that system, the second there was an abuse claim, I got an email and their support engineer called me. That system is still in place but they no longer call, they just email apparently (but its been years since I got an abuse claim). You have a few days before they take action. In fully managed servers, they may login and try to resolve it if you allow them and post change of management procedures. I'm curious though. The rate of issues maybe directly correlated to the size of The Planet. They have over 8 data centers in Houston and Dallas (I've visited 3 of them here in Dallas when I used to have a private rack). I would estimate they have well in excess of 200,000 servers guessing from the size of the data centers I seen. They pretty much own 2 floors at the Infomart here in Dallas (http:// www.infomartusa.com) and when they grew out of that, they built a huge build across the street. I don't know. A single customer like me doesn't have a lot of weight to push an organization like this and I don't want my access to Twitter to get yanked. Can you whitelist my range? 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 Thanks Zac Bowling http://zbowling.com/ On Jan 5, 6:17 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, no, not until we hear back from The Planet. > > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:21, zbowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > NOOO... :-) > > > My 3 servers are at The Planet. They are the worlds largest managed > > hosting provider so its a significant chunk of the internet so I'm > > sure there will be an outcry. > > > Can you whitelist my range? > > 70.86.83.50-70.86.83.63 > > > Zac Bowling > >http://zbowling.com/ > > > On Jan 5, 4:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Our operations team has informed me that we'll soon be blacklisting > >> IPs originating at hosting provider The Planet > >> (http://www.theplanet.com/). We've attempted to resolve a number of > >> abuse complaints with them over a long period of time and have not > >> received an acceptable response. If your service or application is > >> hosted at The Planet, please be aware that this will impact your > >> ability to talk directly to the Twitter API. > > >> -- > >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
