umm umm power issues that's rough

from 4am to almost 9am one of my servers flatlined
ugh!!!

See my screenshot above. My server was down for just over an hour, not 5 as the graph seems to suggest.

BTW, they've taken https://orbit.theplanet.com/ (the support site) off the air. :Graucho

good info :)
thanks
also to Keyzer

Oh Please.

The Planet's graphs are public. The adult hosts' graphs aren't. ThePlanet is doing approx 13.5 Gbits aggregate. If you really think NatNet and ISPrime (forgettign Webair and Jupiter) aren't doing >20 gbits combined, you're deluding yourself. I don't know how big Webair and Jupiter is, but if I had to guess, the aggregate total of all 4 (Webair, Jupiter, NatNet, ISPrime) is 30-40Gbits.

Also, 13.5/4 = 3.375 Gbits. Whatever you "think" the hosts are doing, if you think that they're smaller than 3.375 gbits you're on crack. For example, NatNet hosts ConsumptionJunction. That alone is probably >3gbits.

Further:
http://www.isprime.com/index.html
Read the top article. ISPrime has recently upgraded their network to have 35gbits of capacity (and you may or may not see a new announcement when their upgrades are complete and bring them to 45gbits of capacity fairly soon), Use your best judgement to figure out why that would be. Using >50% of your network capacity is risking outages, using <25% is wasting money. The answer lies somewhere between those lines.

(that being said, you can look at these graphs and see that theplanet is running >50% on many (most?) of their uplinks)
http://www.theplanet.com/datacenter.html

About halfway down they have "Network Infrastructure"

As a fun example:
http://www.theplanet.com/image.html?...rovider=Level3

927Mbits at peak on a Gig-E (which in real-world usage maxes out at about 950-960Mbits).

On top of all of that, *WHO CARES* who is bigger? Do you really think that it's better to be with a "huge" host that is down, than a small host that is up?

Also, ThePlanet's main business is in low end hosting, many of the adult hosts have plans that *start* at >$100/mo. Why be surprised when a low-end host has problems?