Not really seeing why they're "naming" SoftLayer here, when it's 100TB.com they're dealing with.
SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
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Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#12Not really seeing why they're "naming" SoftLayer here, when it's 100TB.com they're dealing with.
UK2 claims its SL forcing the disconnect.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#13As you would expect unmetered bandwidth from 100TB is truly unmetered and unshared, with no limits and no small print. Unmetered servers use exactly the same SoftLayer network as their 100TB equivalents and are fitted with 1000Mbit ports. Hosting plans page though has: Unmetered Bandwidth (324TB) add $399 / month
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Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope that's the case, honestly, and I hope that it does go to court. I'm frankly sick and tired of the 'unlimited' advertising model, wherein unlimited really means limited to some arbitrary amount that is not disclosed. As a customer who has been kicked off of a number of unlimited hosting services for a site that only does ~30Gb or so in traffic in a month, I'd love to see hard limits advertised rather than 'unli…
Personally, I think pay-for-use models a la Tarsnap and NearlyFreeSpeech.net are quite fair. I suppose most people will be put off by "mental transaction costs", though.
That might be a part of it, but I think the other part of it is that the average guy looking to start a blog, or website, or whatever, has absolutely no idea how much traffic his thing will generate. For people like that, the claims that Dreamhost makes are a godsend, as he doesn't have to worry about "what if I get a 1000 subscribers?"
Generally, I'm pleased as punch that Slicehost, Linode and Amazon came along, as now I have fair prices with real limits. If I outgrow them, I don't have to move, I just increase memory allocation, or grow the slice, or add a node, whatever.
Dreamhost couldn't get away with this because likely, 80% of their users are paying $9.95 a month for the equivalent of 25 cents worth of usage.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#15The information is spotty but from what I gather it seems someone (SimpleCDN) took the "unlimited bandwidth" claims on 100tb.com a little bit too literally - and tried to build a business around them. The question remains why a supposed infrastructure company thought it'd be a good idea to rely on a single other company to provide their... infrastructure.
It's ok if you want to stop providing service to SimpleCDN, but at least give people some notice, don't just start shutting down their servers.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#16It's quite refreshing to see them provide a migration path for their customers, even if it is to another company.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#17Not really seeing why they're "naming" SoftLayer here, when it's 100TB.com they're dealing with.
UK2 claims its SL forcing the disconnect.
Since UK2 doesn't really have a CDN product themselves, as they resell HighWinds and Level3, their interest is a bit lower as opposed to SoftLayer which has million dollar contracts signed with InterNAP for connectivity and DC space, which also sells content delivery.
My guess is it's not really about kicking out the competition but mostly the fact that they can't realistically offer the said bandwidth for the advertised price, which is far too low for a quality network blend.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#18As you would expect unmetered bandwidth from 100TB is truly unmetered and unshared, with no limits and no small print. Unmetered servers use exactly the same SoftLayer network as their 100TB equivalents and are fitted with 1000Mbit ports. Hosting plans page though has: Unmetered Bandwidth (324TB) add $399 / month
100TB a month = ~300mbps of constant use. The Unmetered upgrade means that you could saturate the full 1gbps for the entire month.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#19On a side note, I haven't heard a single good thing from anyone about the ISP in question. One of their brands, VPS.NET, was an absolute nightmare and almost tanked the launch of one of our projects. A friend who made the mistake of going with them as well, had nothing but headaches. The main issues were reliability and poor customer care.
Seriously, as much as their team "care" their product is absolute shit. My experience with vps.net has put me off UK2 for life, some of the things I've seen in the customer forum are just plain scary. Like the admission they don't have the infrastructure to handle DDoS attacks because it's "too expensive".
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
UK2 claims its SL forcing the disconnect.
Since UK2 doesn't really have a CDN product themselves, as they resell HighWinds and Level3, their interest is a bit lower as opposed to SoftLayer which has million dollar contracts signed with InterNAP for connectivity and DC space, which also sells content delivery. My guess is it's not really about kicking out the competition but mostly the fact that they can't realistically offer the said bandwidth for the advert…
you do know they host youporn and other huge streaming services? youporn host around 800 machines with them and i would guess use a lot of bw. softlayer is not a small hoster, theyre big.