I just read this on their forums.Softlayer is pleased to announce that we have turned up a private 10G peer with Comcast in Dallas. This will bring our total capacity in Dallas to 70Gs.
Dallas, TX (dal01) - 70Gs
Verio - 20G (2x 10G)
Level3 - 10G
Savvis - 10G
Global Crossing - 10G
Internap - 10G
Comcast - 10G private peering Which other providers have this?
Are there any co-location companies in California (preferably northern) that have a peering agreement directly with Comcast?
Not sure if it's peering or transit I should be asking about. Basically I'm trying to get the best path I can afford to Comcast customers in California.
I find it very interesting that the major ISPs in and around Portland Oregon apparently do not peer with anyone in the region. For low latency you're better off choosing a provider in Seattle or San Jose as traffic always seems to be routed there and back anyways.
Why is this? Is it simply not worth their effort to setup the peering connections because most traffic will be hosted outside the region anyways?
The Planet has expanded its focus to add a suite of managed services, which it calls "Planet Northstar" and has rebranded its dedicated server offerings as "Planet Alpha." It's also redesigned its site with a Web 2.0 look.
View 14 Replies View Relatedwe have been having a strange hacking problem on our server that we can not seem to find how they are managing to accompish. I am just wondering if anyone here may be able to offer any suggestions on this?
The problem:
On our server, a hacker has managed to add malicious code to all html and php files on two hosting accounts that we operate. These two accounts are seperate and do not share login information. This is the 2nd time this has happened within the past two weeks.
Originally it was suspected that we needed to add SuPhp to prevent insecure permissions. This has been done, yet the problem continues.
On all html pages, malicious javascript has been added, and on all php files malicious php code has been added.
We have a lot of accounts on this server, and as mentioned only the two accounts seem to have been affected by this.
What we have done to attempt to secure the server:
1) We have installed SuPhp.
2) We have ensured that all scripts on the affected websites are updated and running the latest versions.
3) We have changed all the passwords.
Our server is a managed server, and our server company has been very helpful, however at the moment can not seem to pinpoint the problem. There also does not appear to be any indication via the access logs of the infected files being altered, yet they have been altered.
The computers used to access these websites are clean, and do not have any malware running, which would allow a hacker to obtain any passwords. It also does not appear that the hacker was able to obtain root access.
One other thing I noticed, we run Kayako on one of the sites. When this problem occurs we receive a message that Zend Optimizer is not installed on our server when attempting to login to Kayako, when in fact it is.
Searching Google, I found the following link on the Zend site in which the symptoms seem to be very similar. What are the odds this could be a Zend vulnerabilty?
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Are there any sites that allow you to compare hosts / backbones in terms of peering?
Example:
Verio (NY) has peering agreements with:
Peer1
AT&T
etc, etc etc
Level3 (LDN) has peering agreements with:
NTL
BT
Demon
on a .eu hosting company with good routing/peering around europe. I have customers all over europe but still wanna save money and centralize to one hosting company.
I am looking for a gigabit uplink but nessesarily i dont need flatrate traffic since we only hit peaks a few times a day..
What are your thoughts on companies providing this kind of service at a fair price?
My colo is charging about $80/Mbit, they use InterNAP. Is that reasonable? This is in west coast/california.
That brings me to my other question, how do you know whats a good network? How is hurricane electric compared to InterNAP?
fixedorbit.com shows HE on the top 10 list and shows a lot of peering. I don't see InterNAP on that list at all! Does that mean thats it not as good?
The more peering, the better? (I guess we assume that the network provider isn't over selling and isn't cramming a lot of customers into a single port etc...)
How does peering work from the business angle? Say company X has bought a Gb port at an exchange, and wants to peer with other folks peering there. What are the folks typically going to expect from X before they'll peer with it? What are the
characteristics of X that would make folks willing/unwilling to peer? I've no idea what the relative importance of things would becontent (desirable, undesirable) WAN Network. (Does one have to have one?) technical cluefulnessBrand Qualities of the potential peer. It's hard to figure out the realpolitik of it all just by understanding the tech (BGP, etc.) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering .
I have a client who needs a very special configuration. We are trying to find a data center or server provider in Switzerland who can only broadcast there ip in Switzerland only. So any attack or anyone trying to access that ip outside Switzerland will not get even close to it...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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.
We're having a meeting today with Comcast about letting them move fiber into our facility. Please do not post experiences with Comcast CABLE. I want to know your experience as other datacenters and hosts with Comcast Fiber. What do you know about their fiber and what is your experience with them in both standalone and BGP?
Reliability, latency, peering quality, etc. We are in the Houston area, where so far I have heard they are pretty good with most I have talked to, and a few negatives. At what level would you use their connection?
I have Comcast Business PRO Internet service for work purposes. I've got two web/dns servers and two mail servers, each having their own IP. These are all fine.
There had been a couple situations in the past where I would receive a "Relaying Denied" message from my PINE when sending mail out. At examination of the maillog, It's essentially telling me that these messages are being generated because of the lack of reverse DNS.
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-Oregon.hfc.comcastbusiness.net., instead of my.domain.com.
I did a couple searches on Google, and read somewhere that Comcast is unwilling to create rDNS entries, but they've not specified, so far, whether they subscribe to PRO or residential service.
Before I spend 90 minutes on the phone with Comcast, I thought I'd see if anybody here has been successful with rDNS and Comcast PRO before. It seems to me that by denying this, it defeats the purpose of the "dedicated" service that I signed up with ...
it looks like FDC is taking more pain than usual in terms of network upgrade, i see the network seems unstable till 5am and even now the sessions are getting lost, once in a while like once a hr, anyway this is not the reason i am writing this, but when did comcast become transit provider, i did a trace to UK for example and i see trace going through comcast and then hopping onto tiscali/level3, it looks to me like, comcast could be trying to even out (1:1) it;s carriers so that they get all inbound for free sort of and it;s upstream selling as a transit make money there. sort of, just a surprise to me at this point
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 66.90.127.141 [66.90.127.141]
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms be-10-604-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.
6.89.49]
4 37 ms 40 ms 36 ms pos-1-14-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [
8.86.85.105]
5 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms pos-1-15-0-0-cr01.mclean.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
.86.85.89]
6 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms xe-3-1-0.was11.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.84.117]
7 122 ms 115 ms 113 ms xe-2-1-0.par70.ip.tiscali.net [89.149.186.165]
8 119 ms 119 ms 119 ms kpn-eurorings-gw.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.85.238]
9 120 ms 120 ms 123 ms asd2-rou-1021.NL.eurorings.net [134.222.231.177]
10 119 ms 119 ms 167 ms obl-rou-1021.NL.eurorings.net [134.222.231.130]
I have a business class comcast account and have been able to host multiple sites on my server but ive recently read strange things about comcast's regulations towards this.
there really arent any alternatives in my area for a connection and i have multiple accounts right now. has anyone had any bad experiences in this situation?
San Francisco to Ashburn
3 * 137 ms 111 ms ge-2-20-ur01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.
86.143.145]
4 * 39 ms 89 ms pos-0-7-0-0-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68
.86.90.154]
5 * 289 ms 17 ms pos-0-9-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.130]
6 645 ms 95 ms 76 ms pos-0-9-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [68
.86.85.118]
7 843 ms 111 ms 262 ms pos-0-10-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [
68.86.85.54]
8 124 ms 100 ms 114 ms pos-0-3-0-0-cr01.cleveland.oh.ibone.comcast.net
9 167 ms 125 ms 225 ms
pos-0-6-0-0-cr01.pittsburgh.pa.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.85.42]
10 156 ms 108 ms 164 ms te-0-4-0-7-cr01.mclean.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.
86.84.93]
11 113 ms 192 ms 107 ms te-1-1-pr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.
84.94]
12 188 ms 233 ms 112 ms xe-3-1-0.was11.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.84.117]
San Francisco to Santa Clara
6 87 ms 60 ms 75 ms sar1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.12.121]
7 57 ms 61 ms 52 ms te-0-3-0-0-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.
87.226.185]
8 67 ms 79 ms * ge-2-20-ur01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.
86.143.145]
9 176 ms 142 ms 129 ms ge-2-20-ur01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.
86.143.145]
For some reason... No one with a Comcast.net email address can email us..
Always the Rejected Email comes back with This message:
==============================================================
A message (from <yyyyyyy@comcast.net>) was received at 29 Mar 2007 3:15:15 +0000.
The following addresses had delivery problems:
<yyyyy@sellwebhost.com>
Permanent Failure: 550-Callback_setup_failed_while_verifying_<yyyyyyy@comcast.net>
Delivery last attempted at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:15:18 -0000
=============================================================
I have used "yyyyyyy" only to alter the email address for privacy..
Both have a nationwide backbone, ibone for Comcast and tbone for Road Runner. Which one is bigger and does anyone have a network map?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs anyone else having a large number of Comcast email addresses being bounced back?
We found that it started two weeks ago and is spreading to other Comcast addresses that were previously working.
If you have received info on this or if it is happening to your network as well,
I've recently gotten a new dedicated server and am in a bit of a bind because all emails to Comcast are blocked. I have verified that the IP is not on any RBL I can find but it does appear on the Trend Micro DUL list. This is a list that appears to not be maintained but which the wingnuts at Comcast are using. Emails to the maintainer of the list or to Comcast are auto-responded to and promptly ignored.
I'm at wits end (admittedly, not a long journey) with this. As a small provider I guess I just don't count but it is annoying as hell that there is no way to get these folks to listen. Every legitimate RBL on the planet has someone to help with issues but Trend Micro appears to not. And Comcast doesn't care about their customers getting legitimate email. Actually, I guess they just don't care period.
Has anyone else experienced this and, if so, were you able to figure out what magical incantation it takes to get through to a human who cares?
It appears Comcast is now blocking port 25. As a result, I can't sent outbound email via my dedicated server. They had me change to port 587 for my comast email account, but that doesn't solve my not being able to send outbound from my dedicated server.
Is there anythighn I can do (like change the post my mail server uses to 587) so that I can send outbound mail from my server with outlook (over Comcast connection) or am I just stuck now with using web mail?
which company in terms of reliability, support, and mostly network (as I see it, SL and FDC have similar networks) is the best? Price isn't a real issue here .
View 14 Replies View RelatedThePlanet / Softlayer
Does anyone know of any hosters that are reselling servers from The Planet or Softlayer (or anyone else is Texas that I've missed)
If I have to choose between ThePlanet and SoftLayer for a dedicated server which will be used for Shared Hosting, which one should I choose?
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy clients in LA - those on AT&T and Time Warner in paticular - are having bad download speeds from my server with Softlayer. Anyone else having similar trouble? Clients who normally get 500-700kb/s down are getting < 50 kb/s down, even early in the morning when the total traffic on my 100mbps port is under 1.5mbps.
Basically, east coast is fine, and anyone with a T1 in LA is fine as well - it's just DSL and Cable modems in LA that are screwed up. In fact, one of our are clients is using Apple Remote Desktop to connect to a remote client with a T1; it's faster to through Time Warner, then VPN to Verizon, and then connect Softlayer and back again than to go directly from Time Warner to Softlayer, which is really weird.
i want to know if softlayer will fit my needs?
1) i want to use svn
2) i will only host about 3 small-ish sites with images and maybe one cast-control.
has any used them and what is there up-time like.
I was thinking of buying a new server from SoftLayer When this company called WebNX.com happened to catch my attention.
I did a search of WHT but could not find much about WebNX. I also went to their site (but not much info is published there like SLAs, support fee etc etc...
However, the custom quite they sent me sounds quite reasonable compared to softlayer.
Anyone who can share experience of hosting with webnx? or has more info webnx.com and can share their views will be nice.
We push out a lot of data from our customers a month. So i was wondering which one is better? ThePlanet or Softlayer?
View 14 Replies View RelatedHiVelocity VS. SoftLayer
Which one is better overall?
Uptime, support, pricing, etc.
A Xeon Quad Core 2.4 Ghz, 4 GB Ram and 2x250 GB HDD, cpanel/Fantastico and 10 MBPS shared Port,
With softlayer current promotion, I get it for 224$
With Burst.net reseller - I get it for $180
So is paying $44 more and going with softlayer worth? or is Burst network as good as softlayer?
For those who are still under the softlayer hacker abuse please note you will need to re-load your server. We got hit a 2nd time after thinking everything was clean. Anyhow, for those who got hit again, my team and another from WHT - forgot who made the original clean.php script...
anyhow, here is a tool to clean all the data for all of your users:Copy fixit.pl and clean4.php to a directory. IE: /home/yourusername
Change username "changeme" in fixit.pl to the username where clean4.php is located
execute fixit.pl: IE: perl fixit.pl. If you want to test this on one user uncomment the die statement. When you are ready to do the entire server comment the die statement.
fixit.pl (perl script) Author: Robert Saylor
#!/usr/bin/perl$config{'basepath'} .....