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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
#22Could this month get any better for Amazon?
-It's December
-Mastercard.com and Paypal.com went down making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments
-Since no Amazon service went down under DDoS, big companies will come crawling to them to use AWS
-SimpleCDN goes down, no doubt driving lots of customers to bigger parties like AWS
-They are making boat loads of money http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=AMZN+vs+GS+vs+GOOG
Boycott? Pfff. I predict record revenues.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#23Earlier 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…
Dreamhost however is very open about the type of `best effort, use what you like` model. Compare the claims on http://vps.net/ to the reality of http://status.vps.net/
FYI status.vps.net doesn't include most outages they deem "too small" and only affect ~5% of customers. They only post there when it affects a large number.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#24It's all a little bit silly. Everyone knows 100TB can't afford you to use the included bandwidth. When you start actually using your bandwidth then you cut into their profits and they'll want to get rid of you. When you start actually using the bandwidth _and_ undercut their own CDN using their _resold_ infrastructure, then they're losing out twice. It's important to remember that UK2 = OnApp/UK2/Midphase/VPS.NET/100…
It's just like insurance, you are required to have it but when you need it and have to use it the insurance company jacks up the price from that point on.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#25It's all a little bit silly. Everyone knows 100TB can't afford you to use the included bandwidth. When you start actually using your bandwidth then you cut into their profits and they'll want to get rid of you. When you start actually using the bandwidth _and_ undercut their own CDN using their _resold_ infrastructure, then they're losing out twice. It's important to remember that UK2 = OnApp/UK2/Midphase/VPS.NET/100…
The way I see it is, if UK2 wants to fuck customers out of the service that UK2 advertised and the customers paid for, the customers are welcome to fuck right back.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#26SimpleCDN has provided fairly consistent service until now. Their customer service was always non-existant, but they were exceptionally cheap. We were forced to switch yesterday when SimpleCDN went down -- I actually wasn't aware what happened until I saw this.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#27I was a client of both Softlayer and 100TB/UK2 whatever you want to call them. Both instances were separate occasions and my experience with Softlayer was nothing but spotless.
I had 2TB monthly bandwidth allotted, and the server was using up close to 80% of that. We were hosting 4 TF2 game servers, forums etc. Their customer service and services provided were top notch.
100TB on the other hand was not as pleasant. Even though we ended up not going with them in the long run, I have to say that the process of signing-up, managing the servers and canceling was ok. Nothing great. The factor that pushed us to another carrier was network speeds. There were moments when we were getting 10% of what we were paying for and that wasn't a fluctuation worth the risk.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#28While they may very well win in court - their business will be destroyed.
Why on earth was their CDN built around a single provider? Had they had multiple providers,this would have ended in reduced capacity, with buffer time to re-deploy elsewhere.
Sounds like a good lesson learned - when I need bandwidth X for Y years, I make sure I have solid contracts to that effect - not just relying on a simple clause about severability. If your business depends on your providers, you make sure your providers know what business you are in and make sure the contracts are solid.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
They are fine for joe average who wants to play around and start a blog.
They aren't fine if you want to deploy a web-scale infrastructure on top of them and make tons of money. That much should be obvious to anyone architecting such services.
Re: SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
#30It's all a little bit silly. Everyone knows 100TB can't afford you to use the included bandwidth. When you start actually using your bandwidth then you cut into their profits and they'll want to get rid of you. When you start actually using the bandwidth _and_ undercut their own CDN using their _resold_ infrastructure, then they're losing out twice. It's important to remember that UK2 = OnApp/UK2/Midphase/VPS.NET/100…
It's just like insurance, you are required to have it but when you need it and have to use it the insurance company jacks up the price from that point on.
It's a little bit worse than that. Most insurances will at least pay up and then jack up the price. 100tb.com is not paying up (as in: providing service), instead they canceled the contract, apparently on short notice.