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| Thread ID: 98814 | 2009-04-08 10:58:00 | Server hosting? | WarNox (8772) | Press F1 |
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| 763205 | 2009-04-09 06:48:00 | If you are referring to the same company (begins with H & D), it didn't affect me pesonally, but one of my clients was, and they were not impressed by the companies explaination and the way they were handled. It seems to be quite an unprofessional outfit from what I heard, as they have quite a few bad reviews around the net. Got it in one :thumbs:. A few of us also have a VPN router hosted there - it hit that too, caused us a few major headaches :groan:. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 763206 | 2009-04-09 08:01:00 | Got it in one :thumbs:. A few of us also have a VPN router hosted there - it hit that too, caused us a few major headaches :groan:. Yeah, I think it is only run by 1 or 2 people too. I have found cheap hosting ends up costing more in the long run, when you take into consideration human labour in resolving problems, and just the stress of having to handle the downtime. It just isn't worth it, I would rather pay for a more established provider. I guess it is a little like C1, compared to Ascent. I had another client who hosted their small website there about a year ago (because they were cheap) and the host had a major problem (I think they were hacked) and they weren't able to restore their customers websites, so my client lost a lot of the updates they had done. One thing I noticed when I was looking for server hosting for a client and I looked at their website regually to compare, was that they used to have an uptime monitor, but whenever they had an outage, they removed it. Now it is totally gone. I see they now say they have 100% 'network' uptime, but I guess any datacentre will have 100% network uptime. That doesn't mean that they don't have 'server' downtime. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 763207 | 2009-04-09 08:05:00 | Yeah, I think it is only run by 1 or 2 people too. I have found cheap hosting ends up costing more in the long run, when you take into consideration human labour in resolving problems, and just the stress of having to handle the downtime. It just isn't worth it, I would rather pay for a more established provider. I guess it is a little like C1, compared to Ascent. I had another client who hosted their small website there about a year ago (because they were cheap) and the host had a major problem (I think they were hacked) and they weren't able to restore their customers websites, so my client lost a lot of the updates they had done. One thing I noticed when I was looking for server hosting for a client and I looked at their website regually to compare, was that they used to have an uptime monitor, but whenever they had an outage, they removed it. Now it is totally gone. I see they now say they have 100% 'network' uptime, but I guess any datacentre will have 100% network uptime. That doesn't mean that they don't have 'server' downtime. Two people as far as I'm aware - and they don't always answer their cellphones. That said, we've found them to be pretty reliable before this - although as we maintain our own systems, I guess they never had to do much to keep us happy :p. We added another router in the Iconz DC hosted by another company the same night they had their outage, so if it happens again at least we won't be affected too much. [Edit: Looks like there may be three people, although I'd never heard of the third one before today.] |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 763208 | 2009-04-09 08:22:00 | Two people as far as I'm aware - and they don't always answer their cellphones. That said, we've found them to be pretty reliable before this - although as we maintain our own systems, I guess they never had to do much to keep us happy :p. We added another router in the Iconz DC hosted by another company the same night they had their outage, so if it happens again at least we won't be affected too much. [Edit: Looks like there may be three people, although I'd never heard of the third one before today.] The thirdone could be that chick on the website who could be their PA. If you go to the 'Company' tab, navigate to 'Datacentre' the girl is photographed in a way that makes it look like it is an 'Adult' hosting company :) |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 763209 | 2009-04-10 01:26:00 | Thanks for all the replies guys!!! Sorry I wasn't around to post back. I was just throwing some ideas around. Considered having one at home, but the little adsl routers just aren't as reliable (in saying that the cisco 1800s seem to fail just as much heh). Yeah I figured it would have to be the rack mounted servers, like a dell PE1950 or something. I'll have a look around for the datacenter companies and check out the pricing, keeping in mind to stay away from H&D :) --- So say you get a rack mounted server in a data center, do they just give you remote access to it? They configure all the ports you want forwarded to it? |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 763210 | 2009-04-10 05:12:00 | So say you get a rack mounted server in a data center, do they just give you remote access to it? They configure all the ports you want forwarded to it? Generally they give you a real public IP, and *all* ports are allowed through - you're responsible for your own firewalling unless you're paying extra for the service. Most people admin Linux servers via SSH, and Windows ones via RDP. No colocation provider would ever expect you to suffer the annoyance of NAT. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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