Justin Kremer writes: > I've been going through the yellow pages looking at any local > hosting/co-lo options that seem ok, and after seeing everything else, > they seem too good to be true. They are too good to be true. There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. The fact that they advertise it shows that they probably don't have a capacity for high volume sites. Put up a few high traffic adult sites and see what they say. They will either charge you extra or cancel your service. Do you really want to use a hosting provider that is not up front about what they offer? When they say "unlimited bandwidth", they might really mean it. Verio does the same thing with their shared servers while claiming unlimited bandwidth. What it really means is that they put a lot of customers on a single box, so in reality you can only push so much traffic. Their sales reps will confirm that. Their "Network Connectivity" has a lot of marketing spin. When they say "our" data center, they mean a data center they use, not one they own. From the looks of it, they probably colo in a Verio data center. I'd be surprised if they were truthful about the connectivity they list. Five T3s in one location? That's an awful lot of copper. Perhaps they mean DS3? Listing multiple OC3s and OC12s does not mean much. A single accident could take them all out. (Last week Qwest was doing fiber maintenance and without warning took out all of Global Crossing's Minneapolis customers for over an hour.) If they already have five T3s (and not DS3s), why do they need ten emergency T1s? Fitting 1845mbits through a 15mbit pipe is going to work really well... -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list