there is anyone out there who has their infrastructure colocated in cogent owned datacenter. And how stable and secure is it. The only reason i m interested in Cogent owned colo is that they provide solid SLA.
I am having a strange DNS issue on a Cogent circuit using Cogent DNS servers at 66.28.0.45 and 66.28.0.61. What is happening is that some domain requests will timeout the first try. Then subsequent tries will be quick with no timeouts.
I am having a very hard time getting through to Cogent that there might be an issue somewhere and I was wondering if anyone on a Cogent line using the same Cogent DNS servers could also do a test for me to and see if you can reproduce any timeouts.
How I am testing: - Open nslookup (in linux use: nslookup -timeout=2, windows defaults to 2 seconds) - Picking a random domain name (favorite cereal.com, movie title.com, brand name.com, random word.com) - Repeating test for same domain if timeout occurs to see the next query resolve instantly
Here is an example of what Is happening for me: Code: [eger@womp ~]# nslookup -timeout=2 > superman.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > superman.com Server: 66.28.0.45 Address: 66.28.0.45#53
Non-authoritative answer: Name: superman.com Address: 64.12.47.7 > napaautoparts.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > napaautoparts.com Server: 66.28.0.45 Address: 66.28.0.45#53
how's this desktop server looking? Do you think it can handle Windows 2003 Small business server and is there any restriction on how many websites you can host with Windows 2003 small business server?
this is my first time building a server for colo so far i have gather info from this board on the motherboard and the rest are picked by myself.
i want to colo with colo4dallas. is there any other place better than colo4dallas?
There is a domain name in my WHM that does not seem to be owned by anyone, it just gives the username for the domain like below, but does not show who the domain is owned by (ie: root).
i have a tembak which is compiled from tembak.c and takes up processes. i have deleted the files from the server however it pops backup again in the same directory.
Mitch: ok, What i would ask you to do is place a trouble ticket via PAM and i will forward this to our senior technicians and admin team for further review
victom: firefox picked it up as a phishing website but IE6 is not so lucky
Mitch: More then likley due to the outdated security fetures in IE6 it is becoming easy to get around it
victom: that and your running some exploitable services on that VPS prob. I use to work for a webhost
victom: trouble ticket via PAM?
Mitch: Are you currently a Host ireland customer?
victom: Hell no I got a spam email from umm hold
victom: 83.244.130.107
Mitch: Ok, So we can track this issue could you please send us an e-mail to support@hostireland.ie
victom: so looks like you got at least 2 owned boxes
I used to have my apache 1.3.37 with PHP compiled as a CGI. Whenever i have a php script (say vbulletin forum software) that allow file uploads, files will be uploaded with the correct userid and groupid on the server. However, once i compiled PHP as ISAPI module, the files will be uploaded but will be owned by 'nobody'. Of course i can log in as root and chown it back to the right user, but it's a hassle if there are multiple user accounts on the server and they're using php software on their end. If someone is using an ftp program and tries to overwrite that uploaded file that's owned by nobody, it will not let them do so. Is there a way to fix this, or change the config files that would fix it?
We are nearing the end of our contract with cogent and are deciding whether to continue with them. Bandcon has recently (within a last year or so) established its presence in NYC metro area.
Who would you choose among the two? Please give your input and evaluation of the two networks.
I'm looking both at powweb website and dot5hosting and the products page look exactly the same with different colors. Are they owned by different owners, or do do their pages just look the same?
So apparently my sales rep is telling me cogent will not give me a second circuit for a redundent line so in other words, no vrrp or hsrp nothing Unless! i purchase another 200mb contract with them.
Anyone else ever have this problem?
not even are they willing to do a port fee for the second gbic i'd take up.
I have been using Cogent for many years and have always been pretty pleased with the service and bandwidth (I know many consider bottom rate/budget bandwidth). I would usually be able to call in and speak with someone who could check routing, login to switches to verify port settings, and make reverse DNS changes right then and there.
Within the last 6 months though I have been getting pretty poor support from them. Seems they are hiring more and more people just to be able to answer phones. The techs seem to have a hard time comprehending even simple reverse DNS requests and always ask me to hold for extended periods of time.
Today I called in and was even asked to hold right as they picked up the phone!! I mean, if your just going to pick up to ask me to hold, why pick up in the first place until you are ready?
I am considering getting a server from take2hosting.com. Their offer is great and sales has been very helpful and fast. Left definitely a good impression.
The downside is that they are on Cogent-only bandwidth. In the past I have really gotten something against Cogent, mainly due to one of my FDC servers being routed over Cogent and only pulling 10K/sec to Europe.
How is the Cogent network nowadays? Has it improved since a year ago? Worth considering?
From my tests the speeds are actually really great. They are located in San Jose, and I am testing speeds to Europe. For example to Surfnet Amsterdam (Cogent hands off the traffic to Surfnet in Amsterdam, so its on the Cogent network all the way) I am able to pull 2.53MB/sec. This is an incredible speed for a Westcoast<->Europe transfer. It almost makes me believe Cogent has started getting its act together.
For people who would like to test speeds, please use this test file. Especially European tests would be interesting, and it would be great if you could post where cogent hands off traffic from LosAngeles to either your network or a transit network. (In the US or Europe)
Right now I am hosting on a Level3/GlobalCrossing network @ the eastcoast. This works really well but it shows in the price. If I could combine a couple of budget boxes into one of those Quadcores it would save quite a lot. Question is: Is Cogent trustworty nowadays?
Thanks for your input
Ps. I know that hosting on a single-homed network is not the smartest thing to do. However they will add more carriers soon so this will not really be an issue. I'm expecting them to not drop Cogent tho, so my question remains
Anyone using a Cogent colocation at Marina Del Rey, CA that would care to share their experience (good or bad).
Any gotchas that we should consider ?
Considering getting a single cabinet at that location and am interested in quality and reliability of network and facilities. We rarely use remote hands so that is not much of an issue.
We use Cogent at our colo, and since this Monday (8/13/07) we've been gettin dozens of complaints from AOL users stating that connections to our sites are very, very slow and often time out.
We tested from an AOL session and were able to confirm this. We found this odd, because it came out of the blue and nothing had changed on our end. We also get excellent all-around performance from other (non AOL) connections, be it dialup or broadband.
We went ahead and did a bunch of traceroutes on the AOL session. We found things get bogged down as soon as it hits Cogent's routers in DC (timeouts / no response). These AOL sessions have no problems whatsoever with other sites and other (non cogent hosted sites) loaded fast and without issue. We then tested loading Cogent's own web site from the AOL session and saw the same sluggishness as well. The same happened when we tested a couple other Cogent client sites from AOL. They all pulled very slow (10 to 35+ secs per page) on an AOL/DSL session. This did not happen on the same broadband connection w/out AOL running on top of it. The same pages loaded very fast.
Just wondering if other Cogent clients are experiencing this? :? We have not heard from them about this, but wanted to know if this is something isolated or not.
have built quite a library of music now. It would be great if I could upload music to my hosting account, and then just access it from my phone. Would that be allowed so long as I did not share this music with others? Where might I be able to set this up? I checked with hostgator and they said it was not okay.
Could you guys look and see if what I am seeing is right? They offer Global Crossing and Cogent officially. So if I use GLBX looking glass, I get this.
Trying trace from node 'Miami, FL, US' to '96.31.73.xxx' 1 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 0.761 ms 0.608 ms 2 so0-0-0-2488M.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (67.17.66.165) 5.690 ms 5.695 ms 3 WBS-CONNECT-LLC.ae0.409.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (64.214.147.222) 5.731 ms 5.880 ms 4 69.46.31.106 (69.46.31.106) 7.442 ms 6.667 ms 5 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 15.734 ms 15.993 ms 6 96.31.73.xxx (96.31.73.xxx) 15.861 ms 15.795 ms
Now if I tracert from the VPS to the GLBX router, I get this.
traceroute to 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 node1.sarorahosting.com (96.31.73.2) 0.072 ms 0.035 ms 0.008 ms 2 69.46.31.105 (69.46.31.105) 0.731 ms 0.863 ms 1.003 ms 3 gi0-6.na21.b001841-0.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.204.33) 1.147 ms 1.142 ms 1.428 ms 4 gi4-1.core01.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.33.89) 0.818 ms 0.814 ms 0.807 ms 5 po2-0.core01.mco01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.27.90) 148.004 ms * * 6 po5-0.core01.jax01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.146) 5.847 ms 5.839 ms 5.872 ms 7 po5-0.core01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.197) 11.953 ms 23.819 ms 23.870 ms 8 te3-3.ccr01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.38) 11.721 ms 11.752 ms 11.787 ms 9 te8-2.mpd01.atl04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.174) 11.962 ms 11.921 ms 11.987 ms 10 ge4-1-0-390-1000M.ar4.ATL1.gblx.net (64.208.110.97) 12.252 ms 12.359 ms 12.444 ms 11 64.214.16.65 (64.214.16.65) 16.026 ms 16.061 ms 16.594 ms
Please give me the difference. Colo in carrier hotel, we can choose our preferred network provider, but should we do that if we cannot have our own tech in datacenter? How about the supporting service from carrier hotel? Just general question, cause I dont address exactly which facility.
And the second would be more expensive? Saying the same number of rack, amount of bandwidth... Who is providing IP addresses then?