Savvis DC VS Pair.com Private DC
Jun 19, 2008Which DC is considered more reliable?
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LT Migrating Out Of Savvis
Jul 30, 2009I have 2 servers on LT SAVVIS data center (through Server4Sale).
Today I received mails from them that LT is migrating out of Savvis and so my servers need to be transported/built(!) at the DataBank facility. And the server IPs will get changed.
If the servers requires a build, that will mean ill have to configure/reinstall everything again. Thats apart from moving the client accounts from the old server.
Anyone else received the notice from LT?
Weird Savvis Routing
Jul 8, 2007Has anyone else noticed some weird Savvis routing in the NY/NJ area since their maintenance on Friday night?
I'm in NY and a trace to the NJ1 datacenter in Jersey City NJ shows:
Code:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.3
2 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 10.32.37.1
3 26 ms 24 ms 23 ms at-3-1-1-1732.CORE-RTR1.NY325.verizon-gni.net [1
30.81.11.173]
4 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 130.81.20.176
5 * 30 ms 30 ms 0.so-3-1-0.XT1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.37]
6 32 ms 75 ms 34 ms 0.so-4-2-0.XL3.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.213]
7 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 0.so-6-2-0.BR1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.3.149]
8 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms bcs1-so-5-1-0.NewYork.savvis.net [204.70.1.5]
9 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms cr1-pos-0-0-5-2.Washington.savvis.net [204.70.195.1]
10 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 204.70.197.5
11 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 204.70.197.14
12 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms hr2-tenge-13-2.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net [216.35.78.6]
13 32 ms 33 ms 32 ms 204.70.196.74
14 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 204.70.196.78
15 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms bhr2-ge-5-0.JerseyCitynj1.savvis.net [204.70.196.86]
16 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms csr22-ve241.Jerseycitynj1.savvis.net [216.32.223.51]
Why are the packets going from NewYork to Washington to Weehawken and then to Jersey City? Also, what are those 4 unnamed nodes at 10,11, 13 and 14?
I'm also getting 200ms+ ping times and 13% loss to/from our offsite VPSs
Code:
640 packets transmitted, 554 received, 13% packet loss, time 639988ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 192.275/198.945/227.685/3.173 ms, pipe 2
[root@offsite ~]# traceroute 216.32.223.51
1 eqash79.keepitsecure.net (69.65.111.117) 0.173 ms 0.125 ms 0.063 ms
2 r02.iad.defenderhosting.com (69.65.112.2) 3.440 ms 0.345 ms 0.290 ms
3 ge2-10.as.eqxashva.aleron.net (205.198.14.245) 0.473 ms 0.554 ms 0.482 ms
4 ber1-ge-8-10.virginiaequinix.savvis.net (208.173.52.105) 0.591 ms 0.567 ms 0.438 ms
5 cpr2-ge-5-0.virginiaequinix.savvis.net (204.70.193.101) 0.588 ms 0.606 ms *
6 bcs2-so-2-0-0.washington.savvis.net (204.70.193.153) 119.863 ms 3.639 ms 3.378 ms
7 cr1-tengig-0-7-0-0.Washington.savvis.net (204.70.196.105) 198.659 ms 201.783 ms *
8 bcs2-so-2-0-0.NewYork.savvis.net (204.70.192.2) 202.751 ms 195.501 ms *
9 * dcr3-ge-0-2-1.newyork.savvis.net (204.70.193.98) 201.978 ms 198.180 ms
10 204.70.197.5 (204.70.197.5) 7.627 ms 6.984 ms 6.196 ms
11 204.70.197.14 (204.70.197.14) 6.822 ms 6.534 ms 6.460 ms
MPLS Label=1640 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
12 hr2-tenge-13-2.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net (216.35.78.6) 6.752 ms 6.634 ms 6.509 ms
MPLS Label=66 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
13 204.70.196.74 (204.70.196.74) 7.550 ms 6.600 ms 6.479 ms
MPLS Label=339 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
14 204.70.196.78 (204.70.196.78) 6.607 ms 6.633 ms 6.482 ms
MPLS Label=339 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
15 bhr2-ge-5-0.JerseyCitynj1.savvis.net (204.70.196.86) 198.841 ms * 201.303 ms
16 csr22-ve241.Jerseycitynj1.savvis.net (216.32.223.51) 196.147 ms * 199.857 ms
The second trace shows that there is a path between New York and Weehawken without going through Washington, even though the first route went through Washington between NY and NJ. The only reason that I can think of is that someone in Washington wants to see the traffic (wink wink)?
I've contacted Savvis, but got the stock response "Savvis’ backbone routers forward traffic through the optimal logical path within our network. Although the physical path may seem odd occasionally, it is actually the optimal path."
Savvis / Layer 3 Status
Aug 31, 2007Anyone else seeing packet loss / high latency? I was told that Savvis and or Layer3 are having some routing issues tonight.
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Apr 27, 2007Which one has the best routes to Asia, especially South East Asia?
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Mar 5, 2007it was about 2 yrs back when I subscribed to WHT and diligently went through the webHosting threads to decide on a suitable webHost. My search ended with PAIR. I chose PAIR basically bcuz I wanted peace of mind which I wasnt sure that other cheaper webhosts cud provide after reading lukewarm reviews(-ve and +ve) about them. The only downside to PAIR was it was costly and I did a lot of spelunking online(for a week atleast) but found almost zero -ve reviews about PAIR.
i am not here to praise PAIR cuz its a solid company anyway.
The thing is I have a basic account with PAIR which doesnt have MySql/CGI....etc. I am planning to start a few blogs and install a CMS like Joomla. Obviously I will be needing databases and scripting. I can upgrade to an Advanced account with PAIR which has all the features I need. BUT that will cost me double the basic accnt.
So heres the dilemma-
Should I upgrade and stay with PAIR.
OR
Should I change to another cheaper Webhost
The deciding factor-
1) PEACE OF MIND- translates to A class service and support.
2) Somewhat ECONOMICAL
I was wondering whether Lunarpages will be a good idea.
forgot to add- my bandwidth(10GB +) and storage(1GB +) requirements aren't high.
Servstra / LayeredTech Moving SAVVIS To Databank
Mar 9, 2009I received an e-mail that goes like:
"Data Center Migration Efforts Underway, from SAVVIS to Databank"
"The LayeredTech data center have informed us that in an effort to optimize the network architecture, they are planning to move all servers from SAVVIS location to a more centralized facility, the DataBank data center which is also located in Dallas."
Experience With Savvis And Net2EZ Hosting And Connectivity
Jun 30, 2008I am interested in finding out any experiences people have had in the last year or so with Savvis or Net2EZ.
I'm primarily interested in experience with the IP connectivity they provide, as well as their co-location, reliability, etc.
I have experience with Savvis from quite a while ago, but presumably that experience may no longer apply.
It's likely we will end up buying transit from multiple carriers and deal with BGP, etc.
But I am also interested in hearing about Savvis's Diverse Internet availability product.
As for Net2EZ, I'd be primarily interested in hearing about their colo services and if anyone has had experience connecting to Carriers in the next door Equinix facility.
DNS Cluster Pair
Jun 8, 2009On setting up a pair of CPanel DNS only servers, I decided to use 2 Virtual Servers from 2 seperate companies - one Xen and the other was Openvz. Reason behind it was in case something happens to the company or the virtualization technology implemented, I'm not screwed.
Guess what! Next day my Openvz node (I will not name the provider) went south and I'm on one leg right now. I'm kinda pleased with myself for having this laid out from the beginning and DNS is still working fine.
Now I'm thinking of having different OS - one linux and the other freebsd. Am I paranoid and over-the-top?
9 Years At Pair.com And Counting
Oct 4, 2009I'm at Pair.com since 2000.
I started a website in HTML, then by different CMS (SPIP, Joomla), and now I use several PHP shopping carts scripts (Virtuemart, CS-Cart). Currently I have 10 sites.
I NEVER had a hacking attempt in 9 years. None security concerns. No downtime more than 20 minutes. Cumulated over the last 9 years, all downtime are less than 4 hours.
You can check by yourself any downtime of any Pair.com server, because Pair.com downtime archives are easy to check, on-line and updated in real time:
[url]
My only concern is spam. When one of my email address catch too much of spam, I just need to close and open up a new address to defeat it (sorry, it's the easy way to fight with spam, but I'm not enough smart to setup SpamAssassin).
The speed of my shopping carts is great (I'm on a shared server).
That's why I stay at Pair.com: (for me) There's nothing better!
Pair Network Alternative
Jun 19, 2008some reliable alternative, located in the same features and price range as pair networks does (pair.com),
they offer multiple domain hosting on a $18/month, with a $15/month if you order annually. so any alternative to that?
I need multiple domain hosting, and good servers.
in example ICD Soft is a decent host but they offer 1 site per a client.
Is it correct that i would rather get good and reliable shared hosting, over a bad and cheap VPS?
Outgrowing Pair. Other Superlative Options
May 19, 2009The great team over at Pair has treated our website (www.Team-BHP.com) exceedingly well. In fact, I'd also posted a review of my experience way back in 2005 (Linky). I'm a pretty demanding customer, yet have no complaints with Pair through this long association. Says a lot, wot?
However, I see Team-BHP outgrowing Pair in the near future. Our traffic increases by atleast 25 - 30% each quarter, and we are currently hosting on the QS5 server level. The server does choke occasionally during peak hours, hence an upgrade is inevitable sooner rather than later. The next (and final) level of upgrade from Pair is the QS6.....which is pretty expensive @ $1,500 bucks a month! I've seen other hosts offering the same kind of juice for half the money, yet never moved away from Pair simply because of their solid service + uptime. However, now that we are growing (and are poised for a more fruitful future ), what are some viable options I can look at?
Our requirement is QUALITY : Outstanding levels of service, uptime, reliability & security are imperative.
1. Any other reputable hosts that you may recommend? Our requirement would be standard fare for a medium size website (dual xeon, 8gb ram, 3 or 4 15K SAS raid 10 hard disks, backup, 100Mbs public + 1000Mbs private port and about 3000 GB of bandwith a month)?
2. Is co-location a good idea, considering that our core team really isn't all that tech-friendly?
IMountain, Cartika, Pair, FusedNetwork
Jul 6, 2008Ok just some quick background. I'm developing a website that will start out small, and possibly grow. I know everyone has that dream, and many fail, so I'd like to start out small but be able to expand with the SAME hosting company (I don't want to have to switch hosts if the site ends up having a lot of traffic).
I have limited server administration experience, so want a clustered or shared hosting environment. I want a reputable company that I can grow into if necessary, and my budget is around $20 to $30 per month. Here are the ones I'm considering:
- iMountain : They offer a clustered environment and 500 GB transfer for just $30. Unfortunately, I think they are in California - is location a problem (as I am in Ohio).
- Cartika : They offer a clustered environment and allegedly have unparalleled support. But they are pretty expensive -- 25 GB transfer for $25, and based in Canada.
- Pair : They have a 200 GB transfer plan for just $30. They are also very close (Pennsylvania) to where I am. However, I believe you are on a non-clustered shared server, and they charge a $35 setup fee.
- FusedNetwork : They offer 100 GB transfer for just $20 and use cPanel (which I'm familiar with). However I've read a lot of controversy on here about FusedNetwork & Hostjury -- I don't want to sign up with a company if allegations of shady business practices are actually true.
Which one do you think I should go with? Does the location of the servers matter at all? Is being on a "cluster" instead of just plain "shared" that big of a deal? Am I overlooking anything else?
I'm leaning toward "Pair" right now, unless clustering turns out to be important.
Pair Networks: 2+ Years Review
Jul 17, 2008I’ve found pair Networks via this forum and have been its customer for more than 2 years now, which gave me quite a good insight in this company. So here some thoughts about pair Networks.
Some background
Pair operates its own Data Center with over 1.500 servers, hosting more than 190.000 sites. If you are concerned about the server saturation, these numbers are speaking for themselves pretty much. Among the customers are such high-profile sites as Barack Obama, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code), Tom's Hardware etc. Quite impressive and it actually says a lot about the host’s structural reliability.
Stability
It’s a truly business class host with an amazing stability. The server load is always nice below 1. During more than 2 years the site I’m hosting there was down for two times: once due to the massive ddos, and the second time due to the planned server maintenance.
Technical support
I’ve got phone and e-mail support on my plan (webmaster). The standard support response time is reasonably soon. The so called ‘urgent’ support reacts literally immediately. The nice thing with Pair is that you actually don’t need any support, because all services are up and running at all time.
Control Panel
Pair is using a custom CP. It’s transparent and as useful as a CP could be. I can’t remember a situation when I was missing some feature in this panel.
Price
Pair is not cheap, but it’s not overpriced either. From my point of view, they were able to find a really well balanced price for the level of services they’re offering. If you’re a hobbyist using your site for fun (and therefore the stability and uptime is not really an issue), you can find tons of cheaper hosts. If you’re hosting any critical site, where the stability, speed and uptime do matter, you’d better pay a few bucks more: servers are not oversaturated and overloaded, no kids experimenting with 'custom' scripts, best hardware, best manpower etc. I’d like not to be involved in over- and underselling discussion, Pair has earned its stripes based on this business model.
Speed
Download speed (from Belgium) is as good as it gets from any US-based industrial-grade site through our broadband line: approximately 400 KB/s. Downloads from Apple, Adobe etc. sites have exactly the same speed.
These all were PRO’S, where are the CON’S?
In more than 2 years I haven’t noticed any serious, structural shortcoming. And I don’t like to make it up just for the sake of false objectivity. Pair Networks is by far the best host I’ve ever had.
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Is Pair Worth The Extra Cost
Apr 26, 2008Pair is really well respected (from what I've heard), but their dedicated servers are a lot more expensive than many I've looked at. I've honestly wanted to use them because of their reputation, and my uptime being critical, but wanted to see if there are less expensive servers who are just as good...
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Sep 4, 2008I am currently with the planet and am happy with them, however as part of a new venture I need to gather a list of hosts as well as the planet that will be able to cater to the ventures needs and go to tender with the requirements.
ThePlanet offer something called a virtual rack. This is cheaper than renting a dedicated rack, allows for Gb networking but doesnt not allow for a SAN. Do other providers offer something similar? The cost of putting a machine on the virtual rack is not that much more expensive than just renting the machine. I guess there isn't too much to these set-ups to be fair.
If not, then we are looking for dedicated racks, with the ability to host a SAN at some point, but starting off with say 3 servers (2 web servers, 1 storage server with raid5 6Tb of hdd). These servers will be dealing with network cameras although I don't think that many will be streaming at once but the network capacity does need to be there.
Who's door should I be knocking on to find out some prices?
One final thing, should I bother looking for co-lo providers as well? We are in the Uk but not precious about our host being in the same country at all (it would be nice but uk prices are ££). Really, all we would be able to do with co-lo is buy the hardware outright to save price as we are not interested in looking after the hardware.
RAID-1 Pair Plus One Vs. RAID-5 Set
Oct 22, 2007Question though on RAID choices... I'm considering getting 3 x 250GB SATA drives. Would it be better to make two of them a RAID-1 mirrored pair for my OS, home directories, and use the 3rd drive seperately for backups, swap, and perhaps some logs.... OR should I put all three drives into a RAID-5 set and treat it as a single logical drive?
my math says usable space would actually be identical... with 465GB usable in either setup. RAID-1 would be faster for I/O with no parity overhead... but one drive would not be redundant. On the other hand, RAID-5 would be fully redundant but have parity overhead for writes.
I think I just sold myself on RAID-5, didn't I.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) Server On Virtual Private Server?
Aug 12, 2007i try to install a vpn server on my vps ...
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Apr 6, 2008I am in the process of building a database-driven website. The main purpose of the site is really for me to improve my PHP and MySQL, but I will be writing a forum and offer blogs to users, as well as the main point of the site, which is to allow users to upload text-based artwork (ie. stories, poems, etc). I don't expect the site to use up that much bandwidth (assuming my code is clean) or space, as I don't expect it to grow that large. Like I said, it's mainly a learning exercise.
Anyway, the point is, I am looking for a host. I am currently with DreamHost but am having a lot of trouble creating a custom php.ini (because I know absolutely no PERL and am just starting to learn shell commands). The main host I'm considering is MediaLayer. They advertise on their website that you have a private cgi-bin directory, but it was unclear whether this directory would have a private php.ini. This is pretty important for me as I don't have the skills (yet) to do anything too clever like what is required at DreamHost to change it.
Is anyone here a current or former MediaLayer customer? Is the php.ini in the cgi-bin? I know that DownTownHost have private cgi-bins, but the php-ini is not there.
I had a look on the forums but, although I found mostly good general feedback about MediaLayer, I couldn't find anything that specifically addressed the creation of a custom php.ini file.
Private VLANs
Jul 24, 2007What's the benefits of these private VLANs I've seen advertised around? Anyone have a good understanding?
I've read a few things about them but have yet to fully grasp the concept.
How To Have Private Dns Server
Nov 2, 2009how to have your own private name server indepedent of your hosting.
are there any private dns provider or hosts. fast and reliable if yes can whmcs/whm will be able to add records automatically
Setting Up Private Dns
May 27, 2009im running cpanel and i cant figure out how to get private dns setup...
example:
my client wants ns1/ns2.their.domain but i cant figure out the correct way to get it to work.
Private Network
May 30, 2009How many of you out there really use or need private network?
if a private network really justifies the extra cost of switches and motherboards with dual-nics.
Private Rack
Mar 12, 2008Our server count with The Planet only seems to be increasing as of late and I'm now starting to drive myself nuts with bandwidth counts, costs, etc.
My main concern at the moment is our total bandwidth. While we might have a server with a 2500GB limit only use 50% we might have a 1500GB limit use 200%. I understand that any overages are our own fault, etc but there must be a way for us to combine all bandwidth across all servers!
Is it possible for The Planet or any of the other big boys to provide private racks with pooled bandwidth without going colo?
Offshore/Private VPS
Aug 15, 2008I have very specific needs for a VPS provider that can host a reverse engineered game server (NOT WoW) I want to run. I will not be using BitTorrent or IRC or the like, but I want to run an emulator that may or may not fall into DMCA reverse engineering issues (the legal implications just aren't all together clear with the DMCA). I just don't want to have to deal with getting unplugged constantly over something that is not illegal. I won't be hosting any copyrighted material or the like.
Here are my needs:
Windows 2003 Based VPS
384-512MB RAM upgradable if needed
10GB Disk space (Don't really need even that much)
150GB+ per month transfer
a good connection with semi-low latency (doesn't need to be as low as a counter-striker server or the like but needs to be solid and fast)
A control panel of some type is fine, but I only really need Remote Desktop access
Other than that I am pretty open. Country of origin doesn't matter too much and I would only like the company to be somewhat reliable. I want as cheap as possible of course, but I would be willing to spend ~$50 USD per month.
VPS With Private Proxy
Apr 23, 2007I’m summarizing below what we need.VPS with dedicated USA ip.
Private & secured proxy installed. Need to do SSH SOCKS tunnelling (Used for online communication/surfing by our helpdesk staff)
Ability to host 2 or 3 low traffic websites. (LAMP environment)
Our Budget: $10 to $15 per month. Paid thru Moneybookers.com on monthly basis.
Do u think any reliable VPS provider can offer the above? What disk space, bandwidth, control-panels and other features we should expect in the above budget?
VPS Private Nameserver
Jun 2, 2007I have been racking my brain trying to set up some private nameservers but with no luck.
The domain is hosted with godaddy I went through and added them via their domain control panel.
I have webmin as my control panel and my question is how do I set them up on my side?
Virtual Private Hosting
Apr 19, 2006We are looking of going with a VPS hosting for a secure dealer site. We won't need massive amounts of space, but bandwidth is more a concern, as we may need to serve video files for demos and such.
These are the 4 companies we are considering going with:
EV1Servers
ServerPowered
SteadFastNnetworks
PowerVPS
Has anybody here used any of these hosts? What have been your experiences with them?
Looking For Virtual Private Server (VPS)
Feb 7, 2009I`m looking for VPS i have searck offer section but i wont to hear community suggestions too.
I need:
min 25GB max 30GB Space
min 600GB max 700GB traffic
Min 768mb max 1024mb dedicated ram
min 1536mb max 2048 bustable ram
Cpanel/WHM
Full management
I set max limit's because i do not wont to pay for something i will not use