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Originally Posted by fris
i know you use them, much respect for rackspace, i used them a long time ago,yes they are more expensive, but you will get nothing but ... the best bandwidth.
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no. rackspace dumped most of their good transit and started heavily using wiltel, who are probably the worst around at this point. interestingly enough, they're still charging the same extortionate prices for transfer. wanna hear something funny? one of the founders started a budget dedicated server company to compete with rackshack and guess what transit they were using? you heard it right, they were selling boxes for $119/mo with 1tb transfer on the same transit mix as rackspace. makes you think, eh?
there is nothing wrong with co-locating in different datacenters, especially if you're trying to get your clients as many /24 unique ips as possible. i sure as all hell would rather host with gotwebhost than webair - why does webair do any public hosting anyway? surely, their spamhosting operation should be making them enough dosh. how does anyone run mailservers on webair ip space anyway? they're blacklisted everywhere.
yes, all hosting is reselling, unless you're hosting with a tier 1 carrier. but why would you want to do that? unless you've got a fairly large operation, you should never even consider purchasing transit from tier 1 carriers directly - all bar none have absolutely horrible support and you're much better off going with a solid tier 2 who will do multihoming for you.