Cogent Network At Colo4Dallas
May 2, 2007Is there anyone here using Cogent network at Colo4Dallas? I have a request for file transfer hosting, dont need premium network.
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Testing Cogent DNS On A Cogent Line
Jan 19, 2007I 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
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: napaautoparts.com
Address: 208.254.241.70
>
I picked 2 random domains (that were likely not cached at the name server) and they both timeout the first try. Anyone else able to replicate this?
Colo4Dallas
Dec 8, 2007Does anyone know if they have power limits? Ie if I pay for 4u of space, can I throw in a dual xeon system with 16 drives and have them not complain? I'll call them monday, but in the meantime I am just curious if anyone is doing something similar. I don't see anything about power limits on the site.
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Feb 25, 2008This will be an ongoing review on my experience with Colo4. I will update it as time goes on. Our experience comes from having rented servers for the past few years and wanting more server and more control, at less cost. Going colo made a lot of sense to us, so we finally took the plunge.
We first approached C4D six weeks ago after reading the reviews posted here. The initial phone call with Patrick Chapa was pleasant, but brief. I really just wanted to get down pricing and learn a little bit more about the facility.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. We were ready to make the server purchase, so it was time to nail down all the details regarding the contract. Gave Patrick a call back.
He was very straightforward, which I very much appreciate. He listened to what we needed, and made suggestions based on that, without trying to push anything onto us we didn't need. In the end, we still came in $500 less than our monthly budget (Patrick knew our budget all along, and I have to think he could have charged us more based on this knowledge, but didn't). We ended up going with a full rack, 2x 20a power drops, 10Mbps premium, 20Mbps value. C4D also provided two remote access APC PDU's and a 2960G switch with a hot backup.
Contract was signed and immediately a ticket was setup in their support area asking all kinds of initial setup questions. We also went on and placed the order with Dell for the servers (Friday afternoon at 3pm EST) and to our suprise, all servers arrived at C4D on Tuesday afternoon around 2pm EST. The switch C4D was providing arrived a few hours later. By 10pm EST the switch was setup, as were the pdu's, servers and their individual drac's.
The two support people I've dealt with so far have been Marc U. and Ricky V. (won't post their last names in case they don't want them posted). They have both been very helpful, even answering a couple of pretty silly questions on my part.
I put in a new ticket this morning and it was answered within 8 minutes by Ricky, with a promised resolution time of 1.5 hours (there's no real rush on this particular issue).
I'd give Patrick a score of 10 (1-10 scale). He was a true pleasure to work with. I'd also give post-sales support (so far) a 10.
The only thing I wish C4D had -- and I know I am certainly in the minority here -- is an MCSE or MCSA on-site, or at least a list of references to local providers that have been approved by C4D. In our business (vacation rentals), we have many homeowners who are out of town and have no idea which local vendors they can trust. We provide a pre-screened list of vendors for them and it is something they greatly appreciate.
So far, no regrets at all going from renting servers to colo, and no regrets going with C4D.
Zogmo Or Colo4Dallas
Apr 3, 2007I know C4D is a very good provider already. Searching about Zogmo, it seems no bad reviews at all. Houston or Dallas? Which one do you recommend? Going with Zogmo will save more money, especially with their current promotion
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Sep 1, 2007if someone can suggest a colocation company with better support than Colo4Dallas. I have been with them for a few years now. Our server was down all last night. The only way to report that is through their web-based ticketing system.
If tickets could be created with an email, I can trigger an email if my monitoring company reports that server is down but they don't allow that. I also had a bad experience with firewall support they provided. My server was down for two days because they did not do any tests after making changes. They did apologize for screwing it but that's about it.
Is this to be expected from COLO companies. Am I expecting too much from a Colo company? Are there colo companies in DFW Metroplex that have better support?
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ips and about 5-10 servers tower based
1-5mbps
I honestly cant decide Ive used both of the above and am torn between this
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Jun 14, 2009I am looking to a add a GIGE right now in Colo4Dallas.
Which provider would give me the best bang for my buck?
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Apr 12, 2007getting a 1/4th rack from either Colo4Dallas or Zogmo. So far, both have been great in answering pre-sales questions and they both have great reviews as far as support goes.
My question comes down to more of the networking side. Currently, Colo4Dallas uses Level 3, InterNap, and Time Warner. Zogmo uses Cogent and Verio. I know that Cogent gets its bad rep from providers overselling their bandwidth, but are they really a good bandwidth provider as a primary provider? From what I have heard, InterNap has a better network, so it would seem that Colo4Dallas has much better bandwidth operation going.
Does anyone have any comments as to which network would have better connection speeds and uptime? I'm not necessarily looking for the better deal cost wise, but I'm looking for the better network/support.
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Mar 27, 2008I've fire off several email to sales asking about coloing a single server and got no reply whatsoever. are these two providers too big now to talk to a small fish?
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May 1, 2007I just got a notice from Leslie at Colo4Dallas that they are raising their rates by 20% effective June, 2007. Did anyone else get this notice yet today? And in order to get the lower price (20% increase), I will have to sign a 12 month contract. So for example, my 1/2 rack will go from $399 to $478, or if I choose to stay month to month, the new rate will be $600.
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Jun 28, 2008Have 2 questions
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Sep 3, 2007Is colocating with Cogent practical decision.
They offer 10 or 100 Mbps connection
Requires a year contract for full rack.
Question is how does their service, network and bandwidth do compared to other DC/providers?
For those who use (or have used) their colocation service, what kind of feedback can you give?
We are considering colocating with them.
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Dec 15, 2006So 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.
Getting A Cogent Connection To A Cabinet
Jul 31, 2009if I rented a half, or full cabinet for colocation. And would wanted Cogent was my isp for the cabinet how much do they charge?
Days they take to setup?
Costs to setup? (Setup fee?)
I know their pricing 100Mbps for $1,000 which is pretty crazy deal. And if I would go on their contract would it save me a setup fee?
Unmetered Cogent Bandwidth
Jul 13, 2008i want to know any datacenter that offer 10 Mb or 100Mb port unmetered cogent bandwidth.
Do you know any?
It is for an image hosting file service.
Cheapest Price From Cogent
May 19, 2008I am sure people have been in contact with Cogent regarding connectivity...
They gave me a price for a 100 Megabit and a 1 Gigabit connection. So I wanted to see what people were quoted by Cogent.
He claims they have re-structured their entire business over the past 12 months.
He quoted $10/Megabit... How does this compare to anyone else?
Also is even getting a connection thru Cogent worth it?
Cogent Support Going Down Hill
May 2, 2008I 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?
Considering Cogent...smart Move
Apr 8, 2008I 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
Cogent Experience At Marina Del Rey
Jun 2, 2007Anyone 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.
AOL > Cogent Traffic Sluggish....
Aug 17, 2007We 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.
Any Review On Cogent Owned Colo
Sep 2, 2009there 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.
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Mar 29, 2009Could 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
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Here is our goals:
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