mqsymth
join:2002-01-19
Chicago, IL | reply to TAKN
Re: High Quality Shared & Reseller Hosting starting @ $2.50/mo.
Well they don't own their own "plant and equipment" so this would be a big negative for me.
Their ping time is fast 45ms @ 2.5mb DSL from Chicago |
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Jameson
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| said by mqsymth  :Well they don't own their own "plant and equipment" so this would be a big negative for me. So what? You have to own your "plant & equipment" to provide good service?
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mqsymth
join:2002-01-19
Chicago, IL
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So what? You have to own your "plant & equipment" to provide good service?
Yes! If you don't have your own building with good equipment, fiber and servers that you control connected to tier 1 backbones then you have **no** control over what happens to your customers when problems occur with the plant and equipment.
Planned intelligent control translates into excellent service. Anything else sooner or later goes bye-bye. |
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edelite
join:2004-05-24
US
| I would have to disagree. We have been renting space from Savvis for years. They serve you with a high class staff at hand (that does 24x7 monitoring) along with several redundant power supplies, biometric security, and a direct link to the backbone! I think we have had problems with them once (with the backup failing during a planned maintenance or something like that... but our equipment never went down and our internet kept on chugging). Besides that, its been smooth sailing!
I do, however, (slightly) agree that its ideal to own your own equipment (although this is also debatable). If your "rented" servers went down, you would have to wait for the provider to respond. Now if your provider is quick and fast about responding to such things, then you should still be able to offer quality services. However, if they are slow... then it sucks to be you (esp. when the customers come to honk at your door).
There's pros and cons to everything... I guess it all depends on who, what, and where! (oh ... and don't forget about your wallet too) 
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