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Originally Posted by borked
lol 'bro', but if you're calling SAVVIS tier2 and comparing them to Cogent, I certainly wouldn't want to deal with you!
Would you call:
AT&T
BellSouth
Equant
Infonet
MCI
Qwest
SBC
Sprint
Verizon
Tier2 'call em cogent' providers? No, well, they're all up there with Savvis buddy.
Say, you know what Tier1 means  |
Borked,
This conversation proves my point that people need to be more savvy when choosing a hosting company. Neither Savvis nor Cogent are teir one providers. Some of the providers in your list are tier one, and some are not. My question to you is why would you want a middle man between your server and a teir one network? Instead of just connecting to them directly? Let's hypothetically say FN and Savvis have a falling out, or Savvis decides to change something internally that the host is not happy with, the host is stuck w/ Savvis's ips, and would have to re-number ALL their clients IP addresses (can you say downtime).
Webair's network on the other hand connects directly w/ tier one providers, In addition to that we have public/private peering with over 80 other networks, and adding more as we speak.
Look... in this particular case I think you should take into consideration ALL of the variables not just pricing. There are some questionable variables to be considered when contemplating hosting with FN that you should ask yourself before signing up IMHO. Do your research, look around choose your host wisely, as they are the foundation to the success of your online business.
A few questions to ask yourself in this particular case would be:
Foundry nap aka steadfast aka nozoneinc aka xtremebandwidth aka nexgen? Why have they had so many names? What is the companies past history? Who exactly are you dealing with? Why have they only had their own AS # since July?
There are so many questions you should be asking yourself before looking at the pricing. Granted price is important, but personally I'd put quality, uptime, support, SLA and so many other variables of the lowest price. Bottom line foundry nap is a colo client of a hosting company called steadfast...if that's what your looking for there it is.
Thank you for your feedback, but I think you need to do a bit more research before stepping up to the plate ;) Let me know if you have any questions or comments I'll help you out where I can =)