they left people in the dark for ages last time!

that's what's scary!

I feel like I'm lost in between a fat man's ass cheeks.
It's getting real ugly!

I have had contact with em. They been getting the "1 more hour" all day last I heard.

That's what I've been hearing all day..

that sucks...

:(

Ok this is starting to be fuckin ridiculous. Any more news?

Weird thing, every time JFPdude stops working there shit happens

Evidently its "some big dos attack on level 3"

Are any other hosts that use level 3 down?

backup file? we're not talking about servers being destroyed here. we're talking about level 3 fucking up. why would u need to restore any backups?

I don't know shit about servers. Can anybody explain it to me.

Will we, like last time, have to resort to an old backup on behalf of techiemedia or will files be up to date and intact?

Dude, JFPdude is a great tech, but this has nothing to do with him being there or not being there.

1)He's been gone quite some time now

2)This is a level3 issue....all of Techie's hardware is working just fine.

And I promise you, I'm losing just as much if not more money than anyone in this thread who's bitching.....shit happens and you have to live with it.

Shit does happen, but you must agree that 12 hours of downtime is very stressful. ESPECIALLY since we have no idea when they will be back up, and last time something like this happened it was 72 HOURS!

Does anyone know of any sites NOT hosted at techiemedia that have level3 bandwidth in the NY/NJ area that are down too? This seems to be techiemedia specific to me...

I don't think it's possible that a major backbone like Level3 could have 'major problems' on their network for 12+ hours without even a temporary resolution.

In any case, I feel really bad for all of the customers of techiemedia, as well as the folks there who are undoubtedly under a lot of stress right now.

The problem is not with level3, the problem is with equinox.

"Equinox maintains call-in phone support between the hours of 8:00AM to 7:00PM EST"

I hope they work late though to get the problem fixed, otherwise it's probably going to be a long wait.

Dude WTF are you talking about??? This isn't a level3 issue this is a techimedia issue if you look closely there is no problems on level3 network

ge-6-2-0.bbr1.Atlanta1.level3.net (64.159.3.69) 8 msec
ge-6-2-0.bbr2.Atlanta1.level3.net (64.159.3.77) 4 msec
2 so-0-2-0.bbr2.NewYork1.level3.net (64.159.1.85) 20 msec
so-0-1-0.bbr1.NewYork1.level3.net (64.159.1.41) 20 msec 32 msec
3 gige7-2.ipcolo2.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.17.164) 16 msec
gige7-1.ipcolo2.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.17.100) 20 msec
gige6-1.ipcolo2.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.17.68) 16 msec
4 pos11-0.hsa2.Newark1.Level3.net (209.244.12.186) 20 msec
so-10-0.hsa1.Newark1.Level3.net (209.244.13.202) 20 msec
pos11-0.hsa2.Newark1.Level3.net (209.244.12.186) 16 msec
5 gige1-2.level3.techiemedia.net (64.157.185.98) 64 msec * 44 msec
6 * * *

if you see on the last hop that's techiemedias router which means that there is an issue on techimedia side and from what it looks like from here I'd say someone on techiemedia's network is getting Ddos attack hence taking down their whole network.

As far as Level3 there is no issues in their Newark facility if you want to check for yourself call 1-877-4LEVEL3 :2 cents:

It is not a Level3 issue.

Regardless, they're back online .

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

GO TM!

Hey guys quit flaming me....I never said I hopped a flight to Jersey and examined the equipment myself.
I simply repeated what I was told by Techie when I called them.

Unless you were there in the datacenter with them I really don't think you should be posting what you "think is really going on" because you have no idea.

Jim is one of the most honest guys I know in this business, he wouldn't have told me that his equipment was fine and he was waiting on the level3 techs if that wasn't the case.

Who said anything about running fiber to offices or going direct to cogent? :winkwink:

Many hosts out there will sell you smaller fractions of their EXISTING 100mbit or gigabit+ pipes "at cost" if you'll commit to a decent amount (usually 10mbits), in fact they could probably sell that 10mbits 2-4 times over "at cost" without running into major problems.

Rackshack is a prime example of "cogent @ cost" ... but there are plenty others out there.

I called Level3 so I wasn't guessing.
Anyway, they're up now so I guess it's all good.