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Originally posted by payrollpete
Nyus
from what i understand level3 is their backup if COGENT goes down for lets say an hour or something
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That's not the meaning of redundancy, they should state what they mean on their website.
If a site is down for 1 hour, it can cost a business thousands of dollars, whether you say it could or not.
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However, their data center was having problems, which carries cogent and level3, but it wasn't the network carriers who were having the problems it was the data center itself, this is why level3 didn't kick in i am sure
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Cologroup is hosted at Carinet, correct? There were no problems at Carinet as far as I heard, so therefore it was Cogent connection on your end, or what was it otherwise? And the redundancy still didn't kick in, eh?
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and why would jason need to lie and say they have level3 as backup? to get a few clients? come on he's in this for the long term
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It's a beneficial thing to have redundancy, and with people's main concern that CogentCo won't last and goes down, they may not want to put their businesses on it, because they will lose money, even in 1 hour of downtime. So being redundant would eliminate, therefore being unfair competition for other hosts who can not offer redundancy (because they do not have it).
"to get few clients" - You're contradicting yourself, you in a previous reply said: "he is the one scoreing 100mbps / 200mbps clients weekly"
That obviously is what he has to gain, and the "few" clients he gains, are large, if even "few".
Of course he's here for the long term, most businesses like to be, that's how they make money and stay alive. But false advertising is bottom line unfair to the customers (whether they are paying less than other places or not), and unfair to competition.
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nysus, do you own a host?
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I provide hosting to people I know, and have plans to expand soon.
Cheers,
Matt