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Originally posted by manuelk
99% .. that gives you like 36 hours of downtime? haha .. i would be pissed of..
cogentco in fact had mad issues with AOL not to long ago where all AOL surfers had mad "issues" reaching anything on the cogentco network. they didnt got it solved till they bought bandwidth from another peer to reach aol. and to Lensmans post about oversea connections - cogentco has mainly a US network and even if they have peerings with other networks their oversea connections are poor and have issues most of the time. the reason why a lot adult sites are with them is the price - if you run a freehost and block certain contries at all - why should you care about that they reach your websites at all.. if price is everything you are concerned with - think about it again .. every visitor you are loosing ...
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36 hours? Where did that come from? It's less than 3 hours per month.
And besides we have OVER 99% uptime (like i said) since I've been a partner at Vibehosting. The network only went down on me ONCE, and that was during maintainance on it. We had been notified about it earlier.
Sure, cogent has had a lot of problems years ago, it's all fixed now. And we have also used Verio and Williams, and Yipes. They all were a lot worse compared to the cogent datacenter we are on now.
I agree, for a paysite, etc, I would go for the best bw available myself, but we are a budget host, we charge about .13 per gig for dedicated servers, and no setup fee, and for that you get support and *acceptable* uptime. As far as I know, all of our clients are very happy with our service and the speed and reliability from cogent. You can actually get full speed from us on the 10mbit connections we sell.