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Originally Posted by webair
turboangel - I love you too!
directfiesta - We offer solutions both offshore and within the US. <<IMHO!>> US bandwidth, both speed and reliability wise is unbeatable at the moment...and i say "at the moment" with much confidence that it will not be this way very long  With that said I'm curious to know if you abide by 2257 regulations anyhow to some degree? |
To the webair guys thanks for starting this. Competitor or not we all share in this issue, and in combination with the new XXX TLD a lot of scary stuff is affecting our industry. Hosts and ISP's alike have been visitited by the FBI, Secret Service and others. Peronally at OC3 we see our adult clients like we see our mailer clients (legal ones), if you are providing a legal service, then we do our best to keep your account, your bandwith and your servers up. 24/7/365. We are an ISP, not just a host so they visit us early and though we are not outlaws, we don't bail. Will be honest, we will give a contact name, we always do. The same name on the whois records, etc. we owe nothing more to law enforcement and as long as our customers are providing legal services it would take a court order for ust to shut them down. Oh one last thing, short of an elctronic and financial miracle it will remain very slow to for your US surfers if you host in europe. I am in huntington beachhere at 8 14 pm i just ran a trace from the netherlands over Level3. We all know level 3 is a good network and its their network all the way so no cross peering problems and the trace takes between 160 and 200 milliseconds. thats an eternity. That average. This will not change a lot. when we go Xcountry which takes about 70 ms we bitch. 70 ms is with bgp hops at a real minimum, where MPLS is deployed so that going from new york to la goes in 6 hops and not 18. Same from the land of the dutch. Much as others have mentioned, it won't stop you from being prosecuted if you live here and do business here. Every country will have itsw issues. Either way OC3 will continue to host our clients with the same spirit. If you within the bounds of the law, we will keep you up. People may have issue with hosting can spammers but if we know how to keep them up, we know how to keep you up.