Hosting For Corporate Site (low Traffic, Uptime Important)
Nov 2, 2007
i work for a small but fairly successful and quickly rising company. we're looking for hosting for our corporate site. we could host it ourselves but that would put an extra burden on engineering and we're stretched pretty thin as it is. we moved to bluehost on my recommendation. i've been using them for 2 years now and never had a problem. unfortunately less than two days after we switched the server is now down. it's been down for over 4 hours now and we've blown past several estimated times from tech support. i know this is a rare thing but it doesn't look good and i don't think the higher ups much want to stay with them. so here's some info about our site. requires SSI, CGI, Perl 5.8+ with Perl DBI 1.32+ and Perl DBD::Mysql > 2.1021+ Perl Modules, ImageMagick 6.0.6+ Perl Module or GD Perl Module (GD.pm 2.17+), PHP 5. small traffic with occasional spikes. approx 200 uniques daily. occasional spikes if we happen to show up in the news. we do have the possibility of showing up in all major US news outlets. it's happened once before which resulted in almost 1,000 uniques which quickly tapered back off to normal levels. we're currently using 154MB of disk space and 8GB of bandwidth last month. we need multiple ftp accounts to allow marketing and contract web devs to upload their own files. probably around 10 or so would be adequate. email not required. we have a hosted exchange server. uptime and quick response to server outages important. being a corporate site and not our application downtime isn't truly horrible but it is perceived as such. this site is our identity. we're a tech company and it looks bad when our corporate site is down. even when our application isn't.
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Jul 10, 2008
We expect a site on one of our boxes to receive a significantly high level of traffic tomorrow as it is an event that will be covered and has already been covered by the press. The site operator expects > 100,000 hits a second.
It's a PHP page that pulls records from a database and lets people submit a form to insert a record. We have already put a caching script in place so that refreshing the page does not result in doing another database query.
The site was overloading a shared server, and we've moved it to one of our VPS boxes - it's the only VPS on the system at the moment. The box is a Quad Xeon 5410 with 4GB RAM with a 4 10K RPM drives in a RAID5 setup.
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Nov 12, 2007
Current Forum users: 550,000 users
Traffic: 700,000 to 1,000,000 page views a day with 70,000 – 100,000 visits a day.
Monthly bandwidth needed around : 18000GB (18TB)
Now can someone tell me what kind of solution i need to host this website & keep sit running smoothly.
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Mar 12, 2009
i am about to take on a big account where i will be hosting-developing-designing and doing analysis. im not sure if i should get my own server or transfer this new account to my hosting company (host monster).
im afraid if my server goes down i will not have the experience to rectify it in a rapid speed. is it ok to keep a big account that relies on web traffic and business with a host like host monster and what are the pro"s and con's. i have only done web design and development thus far and the hosting and maintenance is pretty new to me.
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Jul 13, 2008
Is there a site that shows the actual uptime for a host?
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Oct 4, 2009
I work for a company that does business mainly in California but we have people all over the country including Boston and NYC. I'm looking for dedicated servers and found good pricing/service in Chicago but worried about response times for my Cali folks. I'm hosting a non public web app that everyone needs to use so the load is low and response times are not super critical.
Will my users experience noticable latency?
Also people that manage the servers may be in Cali as well. Will they find it fustrating to remote into these windows servers and manage them or will it be acceptable or should I find something closer to california?
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Feb 28, 2008
I am interested as I am sure others are as well in the results. Please also list things you want to see providers that they are missing the boat on now. Please dont mention specific providers and make this a bash session. I think this type of dialoge will benefit all the providers out there.
This was supposed to have a poll but my laptop died before I could post the poll questions
What is most important to you in a dedicated hosting company?
#1 Price
#2 Support
#3 Network
#4 Client User interface
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Apr 18, 2009
We currently have a website for our client developed on ASP.net with SQL
Its a straight forward web application with 2000 visitors per day
The traffic is going too heavy and its now at 130 GB per month
Our Queries :
Can we still have this site on a shared environment ?
If yes, suggest few providers offering high bandwidth
What other alternatives are there?
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May 11, 2008
I own an anime linking site which you guessed it links to anime. I have around 10000 hits a day and would like a vps with litespeed since it's so much faster.
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Oct 5, 2008
In AWStats I am getting a lot of traffic from one URL but it is all spam traffic. How can I make it so that any visitors that come from that URL cannot access my site?
They have a link on their site to mine...
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Jan 12, 2007
Is it common to get informative and appropriate website traffic statistics via your host? or is this some I should look at joining/purchasing independantly?
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Jul 3, 2009
Something not many people know when choosing a web host is the importance of choosing a host that will aid your marketing and your website’s niche. This can be very important if you are running an online store depending on the geographic region you are focusing on. So first let’s start with an explanation of why this all depends on who your site’s visitors will be.
Most internet connections are very fast but it still matters where the physical server is hosted in terms of speed. If I was starting an online store focusing on customers in Texas the site is going to server faster to people from Texas if it is in Texas. Similarly if you are building a site aimed at United Kingdom residents you don’t want the server to be in the United States or even Europe in some cases. By hosting in a location near your customer base you are speeding up their access time to the server. This might not seem like a big deal but in a number of studies the importance of a quick loading page can mean a big difference in the number of conversions. Or if you are hosting a game server ping time will obviously matter when you are shooting your next zombie.
In terms of marketing it is also important in the eyes of Google and other search engines. One of the many factors for knowing whether they should rank you in a country specific search engine is dependent on your IP’s location as well as your domain name ending. By using a host in the country your site is serving you is sending one more indication to Google of where you should be ranked.
We have had plenty of customers at UK2 who came to us from USA based hosting and after they started using our servers which are in the United Kingdom they found that conversions increased and they had lower shopping cart abandonment rates. Which when you are running an online store are two very key factors. This is also why we offer our customers dedicated server hosting in both the United Kingdom and USA, we want to be able to give them the best of both worlds.
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Mar 28, 2008
Calling on all hosting and server experts here. (If you're not an expert, still feel free to take an educated stab at this. But please leave out total made up answers or foolish answers like "Have LittleJoeShmoe Hosting services do it all for $9.99/month".)
Scenario:
If you knew or were planning on developing a site that you knew would generate millions to tens of millions of page views a day, how would you go about supporting a site of such traffic? The site would not serve up videos, but the average page size would contain up to 75-100kB. It would incorporate databases (user logins, accounts, user submitted content, server side scripting, CMS, etc.)
Don't assume anything. Don't assume you have too little or too much money. Just, what would you plan out to accomodate such a scenario?
What hosting companies would you use? Would you do it in-house and build your own datacenter? Farm out the server management? How much would it cost to implement your plan? What platform would you recommend for a site to handle this much traffic?
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Jun 9, 2009
Let's say I run a gallery site that is powered in php with no mysql required. Can a shared host handle traffic that receives 50k+ hits daily?
I know a shared host can handle 50k+ hits daily if the site is pure html but I'm not sure if that still applies the same for php
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Jan 14, 2009
do you suggest verio for high traffic video site?
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Aug 19, 2009
I am writing a financial statement for my business plan and like to know what numbers should I expect from the the host. If the potential traffic will reach 405,000 visitors a month what my requirements for the hosting company should be?
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Jun 4, 2009
This is not strictly a technical issue with our server as such, but this subforum still seemed most relevant. If not, please move the thread to a better suited one.
Bizarre problem: in the last 2-3 days, visitors from certain countries (France, Holland, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro) are having difficulties in reaching our website hosted on cari.net. However, other countries (USA, UK, Germany, Russia) don't seem to have this problem at all. The server itself is a-OK.
The website hosts an IPB forum. The problem is that every so often (very often), upon clicking on a link, the browser hangs on "connecting", and often times out and returns a Bad Request message. Sometimes, when a clicked link that's waiting is refreshed, it immediately loads the page up quickly, as if nothing is wrong.
We cannot call our hosting company, as it's really nothing to do with them, the server works perfectly, it's just that traffic from certain countries has difficulties to get through a certain level3.net node in the USA (that is where tracert usually breaks down, or gets through after several attemtps).
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Sep 16, 2007
I am currently moving from my current dedicated servers because they simply cannot handle the load. I have a site which frequently makes it onto radio, digg and other similar sites.
I need a dedicated server that can take a beating from Digg and offline Media. For most of the month the server load is really low, the site hardly uses up anything. However, when it hits those sites, it suffers.
I am OK with using Shell, just basic tars/logs/sqldumping/httpd.conf editing/rebooting etc.. anything beyond that like installing and configuring software I cant really do.
I guess I am looking at a dedicated option (linux based) with a host that'll setup software/modules modules for me when I ask, but doesn't really need to hold my hand all the time.
How are ThePlanet.com's servers? Do they manage the servers?
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Feb 28, 2008
My video sharing site has high traffic, alexa rate:3,000
My site has 2 servers to split the load. 2 servers share a mysql server. Using rrdns to load the balance.
Server A running mysql 5.0,lighttpd
Server B running lighttpd.
Server B connect to A's mysql database.
During peak time. B can not connect to A's mysql server. It says server not responding. But A still running fine.
When I check mysql log file.
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Forcing close of thread .....
And when run top, the load average is 20.
The spec of Server A
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz dual core.
2G Ram.
Here is the my.cnf
Quote:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1
max_connections = 1000
wait_timeout=60
connect_timeout=10
interactive_timeout=120
join_buffer_size=1M
query_cache_size=128M
query_cache_limit=2M
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=1024
sort_buffer_size=2M
read_buffer_size=2M
My question, do I need another maching C to run lighttpd, and just keep mysql on A.
Or I can do some mysql optimization on A.
Also, if my site keeps going, can I have 1 mysql server and 5 http servers?
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Dec 24, 2008
100% Uptime or Never Down shared hosting.
100% Uptime or Never Down shared hosting.
if your site is up ALL the time in the past 6-12 months, monitored by server uptime service,
please mention your host on this thread....
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Oct 5, 2008
i dont need too much space or bandwidth like 5gb of space and a max of 50gb of bandwidth
i really only care about "up time" my web pages can not go down are there any shared hosting out there for me or not should i look for a VPS or something different
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Mar 24, 2007
This week there was some one who asked me if he would have 100% uptime having his web site hosting in 2 different locations, with one server name pointing to a webhost, and the other server name pointing to a second web host.
For instance I want to host example.com on WebHostA and WebHostB
WebHostA's DNS are
ns1.webhosta.com
ns2.webhosta.com
WebHostB's DNS are
ns1.webhostb.com
ns2.webhostb.com
And he would set for instance for example.com:
ns1.webhostb.com
ns1.webhosta.com
He doesn't have a database, just a static page. For e-mail, he would configure 2 e-mail accounts in his email client, using the IP address of both web hosts to make sure he doesn't lose emails.
Wouldn't that work? He should have 100% uptime this way,
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Jun 14, 2015
I'm getting a traffic notification on a site I restored from a backup that originally came from a standard Plesk edition. Web Admin Edition doesn't appear to have access to Subscriptions, and all I can find with regard to limits under Webspaces is a hard disk quota, which isn't even editable. How do I amend of remove the limit?
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Jul 11, 2007
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i find it recently,very useful to find reliable hosting company
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Jun 7, 2008
While every decent host claims 99.99% uptime, its amazing why most rather almost all hosting companies fail to display the related statistics from independent source on their sites.
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Sep 19, 2007
Here is a short list of grievances
1) Un-ethical pricing schemes
2) Ignoring your support calls once you cancel
3) Cancelling after confirming to show up for a hardware pickup
4) Billing you for months on end after you cancel
5) Not unracking the servers and making clients wait over 2 hours to help THEIR techs unrack boxes
6) Releasing servers to my customers directly for a fee without my authorization (I was holding onto customer's hardware as they owed me money for past due invoices- these servers became released to the client without my knowledgs who then went direct with corporate colo -- see complaint 7 below)
7) Stealing our customers by offering a lower fee to them to get them to "go direct" by saying - sure you can keep your ips, we'll just take it away from your host and let you keep them
8) Giving us the wrong box (YEP They gave us ANOTHER client's box AND called us up begging for us to return it 2 hours later ... all on my dime)
All of this is documented so if they want to come on here and argue, I'd be MORE THAN HAPPY to blast them further.
STAY AWAY FROM CORPORATE COLO - one of the most unprofessional, vindictive, childish and corrupt colocation companies out there
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May 21, 2008
is there anyone knows for a good hosting located in uk,which is allowed : adult site and casino betting online site ?
im looking for vps and dedicated server.
please help me i really need as soon as possible.thx
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Oct 7, 2009
I'm assuming a corporate proxy cache is what they have set up. I have a client and every time I send them changes to a temporary page I'm hosting for review they can't see it.
They can hit refresh over and over but never see the new updates unless I change the name of the folder its in.
This is very annoying and it only happens with them and one other corporate client i have. They check on multiple computers and it will never refresh and load the new changes. I think this is their network cache that their IT dept. set up.
How can I get around this? I tried an htaccess trick I looked up for expiring files but it didnt work.
These files are on a shared hosting of mine on an Apache server.
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Nov 6, 2009
I've been asked to put a list together of UK suppliers of dedicated servers for LAMP and Windows webhosting.
The organisation's IT department wants to stop hosting different department websites.
I have companies like Rackspace, Positive Internet and Peer1 on the list.
They'd need to be companies that would pass a due diligence, secuirty and quality audit etc.
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Jun 29, 2008
just to give a kickback to these guys from Corp. Collo in LA. Let me first explain why we needed their service, and then what happened.
GPLHost, the company that I started in 2003, does VPS hosting from many location. We sell our service with our GPLed solution, using services from other company that we trust for taking care of hardware. As we had already a very good partnership in Florida, we started to investigate who we could host with in the other side of USA. We don't ask much, but at least, that a company knows how to open a chassis, change a hard drive or a memory, nothing more. It has been running this way for years without a glitch until...
Everything started well with them, we were charged 55 USD per month, which was one of the cheapest service we ever found, together with a very good bandwidth.
Until we had the most common issue we have: a hardware failure on our RAID1 software array. So we did mdadm -f /dev/sdb, mdadm --remove, then power off the HDD with hdparm, then ordered for a new hard drive to our usual supplier. When the drive arrived, we asked for a change, and also that the IPMI ip of the board was set, using a special CD from the constructor of the motherboard.
For your total understanding, please see this link, showing the server's chassis:
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At the time, we were using short 1U box, in order to minimize costs. Now we only use longer ones, with bigger PSU and 4 HDD hot-swappable bays like the SCT813. So if you want to remove any of the 2 embedded HDD, you need to remove the top panel and unscrew the shroud pumping air that is in the middle (one unique screw on the bottom).
It took 1:15 for the 2 operations that needed no more than 15 minutes in total. So we were charged 300 USD (150 USD per hour), which is already abnormal. It took them 30 minutes for the HDD itself because they removed the FRONT panel, which is not needed at all.
Then the server failed unexpectedly the 2nd day. I wont explain in details all the stupid things they did for us, but after 6 hours, they finally noticed that there was a red light next to a thermometer icon on the front panel that was flashing! YES, 6 hours to find this...
So, after discussions, we agreed that they would rent us the defective hardware: the same motherboard, RAM + CPU, at a very expensive rate (something like 100 USD per week, os something like this...). So we asked for the defective system to be sent to our hardware supplier for a check. Of course, it took 2 weeks back and forth. And the result is... that the air shroud cooling the CPU was facing the HARD DRIVE and not the RAM and the CPU cooler. For an unknown reason, the technician decided to make a 90° rotation of it, before closing the box, which of course nearly destroyed it.
Because we had quite some customers on this server (as it was serving VPS customers), we still paid to resume the operation. But all together, a simple HDD failure costed us at least:
- 300 USD for the first change of HDD
- 600 USD for the 2nd day trying to diagnose what happened after they destroyed the server. They "nicely" said they would charge 3 hours instead of 6...
- 2 or 3x 100 USD for renting the server
- Maybe 80 USD Shipping of our server back and forth to the hardware supplier
- The new 1U casing for the server (at least 200 USD)
At this time, they still do not agree that they broke something. Nobody, including my supplier and myself, understand how an air blower can make a 90° rotation BY ITSELF without the intervention of god.
We had, about 6 months or more later, another HDD that failed. So we asked them to change it. All together, it took more than 2 months, and there was some other issues that I since forgot.
But that's not it! Read further...
Finally, we have migrated all our customers to another collocation facility that are much more unprofessionals. Then we asked for the server to be shipped, together with a linksys switch that we provided at the same time. Victor took an incredible 2 or 3 weeks to just FIND the switch (he first told me that it might have been lost). Then, he told me he found it, but IT WAS BROKEN! Yes, again, they broke something, and this time, they agreed saying they broke it. And guess what? Victor told me he was ready to charge back on my credit card the CHEAPEST amount that I ever saw for that switch online, excluding shipping or any taxes... Incredible.
But ... THAT'S NOT FINISHED!
I once went to bank to withdraw on the company's credit card and it was over limit. So I ran to home, called the bank, and they told me that corporate collocation has CONTINUED to withdraw on my credit card. So I called the "so called" hotline (which is NOT 24x7, I can tell by experience), and started to shout on the phone that I do not appreciate the "joke". Of course, Victor said he was sorry, and that he would charge back the money for the switch, plus what has been charged wrongly this June.
All together, my company have lost more than 2000 USD with corporate collocation if I include everything. As of today, I have yet received no email from Corp. Collo saying that the money they (agree that) they own me is sent back to my credit card. Maybe if they did, I wouldn't have post here, and accept the apologizes. But that is really too much this time!
In short:
- Corporate collocation charges when they should not, they are thefts
- Corporate collocation doesn't admit they break hardware, they are liars
The only good thing is that we made it so our customers didn't feel too much about all the worries we had, and down time was quite minimized, luckily. It could have been a lot worth with extended down time.
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Jun 3, 2007
I'm writing a review on Corporate Colocation (Corp Colo, Corporate Colo, etc). We were with them for 9 months and just recently we decided to move our equipment to Zogmo.
Background:
We signed up with Corporate Colocation in September of 2006. At that time, we wanted to find a cheaper colocation offer so we could "get out feet wet" with colocation. For a while, we only had one machine but later on we added a second one. I will go into my reasons for moving at the end.
Sales:
In my opinion, this is the only part of Corporate Colocation that I found good. Jon and Victor have been pretty good customer service wise. They seem to always be willing to do things that need to be done and they are pretty good about working with you. Although they didn't seem to be very technically inclined, they did a pretty good job overall with the sales aspect. There were only a few times we had billing issues and they have been pretty quick to fix them with some follow-up.
I would give them an 8.5/10 for sales.
Technical Support:
Minimal at best. Things seem to take days to get done with technical support and even some of the emails that I sent in with regards to some network issues (not with Corporate Colocation, but farther down) were never even responded to.
For example, I requested them to activate a remote reboot port that I had paid for and a week went by with no word. I ended up calling in and talking with Dima about it and he seemed to know about it the request and he had it setup within a few hours. When it was setup, he didn't even bother to follow my instructions and even proceeded to spell my company name incorrectly. A few weeks later I went to use the remote reboot port and it didn't work. Evidently they fixed it, but I ended up leaving a few weeks later so I didn't bother seeing if it worked.
We had some issues with their network. It's partly my fault for requesting a rate-limit on my port, but it took a few days a few emails to even get a response. He seemed to respond pretty quickly as long as there was no work involved. I can't really hold this one against them because it was my own dumb fault, but it's something that didn't sit well with me.
Overall, I wasn’t very satisfied with their technical support. However, I tend to have a little high standards. If you don’t mind having to follow-up and emails with calls (or more emails) and don’t mind a few days for support to get back to you then Corporate Colocation is for you. I just like being in the loop and communicated to, which is one thing they severely lack.
I rate them a 5/10 for their technical support.
Network:
I will stay that they had a pretty reliable network and speeds were pretty good. All I can recall is two outages (unscheduled) where the network was either down or very slow. One was where their network room lost power, so I assume all their network equipment went down. I did file an SLA claim on that one, which they did promptly pay. The other was just a few minutes (<15 minutes) where the network was spotty. I can say they have been doing some network over that past few months and they are defiantly improving in that area.
I rate them a 9/10 for network.
Datacenter:
I drove to Los Angeles to pick up my equipment from Corporate Colo (see canceling for the experience). I was escorted from the lobby area up to FastServ, where Corporate Colocation is located, and I was given access to the datacenter. The datacenter area was reasonably cooled and they had a few big fans blowing air around. The racks themselves looked a little cluttered. The server a couple U’s above mine evidently fell a U or so on to mine (It was on rails, but somehow got dislodged). The server below mine was not even screwed into the rack and when I attempted to pull my servers out it would pull the ones above and below mine. Good thing I brought a couple people to help me with removing the servers and it four of us to make sure the servers on the top and the bottom didn’t move and to make sure their server’s cords didn’t come out. I just hope that others would exercise the same caution when doing stuff with their server(s).
Overall, I wasn’t really impressed with the datacenter. There was nothing bad per se, but the servers on the racks looked a little cluttered and unorganized. I would rate them a 7.5/10
Canceling:
I wasn’t particularly happy with the way they handled the cancelation. I made sure to have a few people confirm my cancelation (over the phone and email) and I had to do some following up a few times in order to even get some answers (I wanted to have my cancelation confirmed and I wanted to confirm access, etc). After some time, I finally got answers to my questions over the phone.
When I was at the datacenter, I was told by someone from FastServ that I had an outstanding balance and I would need to contact Corporate Colocation to get it resolved.
When I called them, they were trying to charge me for another month of service. But I made sure to keep sufficient proof that I canceled well before the 30 days notice and that both Victor and Jon confirmed it. They did finally give me access to my servers, but after about 20 or so minutes a lady came out with the guy that escorted me to my servers asking my it was taking so long and she eluded to the fact that that I needed to just grab my servers and leave (She did tell me that I need to get my servers and seemed very insistent about why I was there). She then proceeded to wait next to us to finish.
I’m not sure why the lady was so rude to me as I did have a right to be there; my colocation didn’t terminate for another few weeks and I wasn’t wondering around the datacenter touching stuff that I shouldn’t have (In fact, I tried everything I could to make sure the servers around mine were left unharmed. I know it wasn’t just me, because even the security guard that checked us in commented on how rude she was.
I would rate the cancellation a 5/10.
Overall
I can say that sales was pretty good to me. They did lack in some areas, but overall that’s what kept me there for so long. I was planning on using them in the future for some non-critical (off-site, etc) stuff in the future, but the way that I was treated at the datacenter and the trouble I had canceling has made me to think otherwise. This is one of those “you get what you pay for” situations. If you need something cheap that is fairly good, then Corporate Colocation is for you.
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