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Look guys, what I'm trying to say here it's:
1.) Im paying for Tier-1 connectivity and I'm getting Tier-2 at the price of a Tier-1. Quite frankly, I don't want to be on Yipes - neither Williams Co. or Cogent Co..
Expl : I've been told by my account rep at LWI that I will only get Verio, AT&T, Qwest and Level3 bandwidth. I based my decision on these facts. When I joined LWI, I've been told that my servers will never be on Cogent or such crap but only on quality Tier-1 providers. - Written on my contract too!
2.) Their network isn't stable, there is always some route problems since Sept. 11 2002.
3.) I don't like the idea of doing business with them when I hear that they aren't paying their bills! This doesn't make me comfortable to host with a company who put all THEIR CLIENTS BUSINESS AT RISK. And it didn't happen only one time, but 2 mother fuckin times.
3.) They've been promising their client that Yipes and Cogent were only temporary - and they'll find other Tier-1 provider very very soon. - It's been 75 days now that we run on cheap ass connections.
4.) I am paying for BGP4 and "redundant connectivity on multiple providers". The BGP4 doesn't work - and the multiple connections my ass! Last september (8th and 11th) when our sites were running slow as shit, they didn't have sufficent redundancy, and we were able to access our sites only 30% of the time. But I WAS PAYING FOR THIS!
In conclusion, im not saying that downtime isn't acceptable. Every host goes down once in a while... But LWI behavior doesn't show me that this company can give me that security and trust that I'm looking for.
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