Thoughts on the Atlanta Forum

Hell Puppy · 09-25-2008

Yeah, I forgot to mention the data center tour.

And I'm not even going to say who was entertaining us with hair lipped midget jokes on the way back to the hotel.

I've now seen Natnet when it was over at 230 p'tree. Again a few years later when it was in the space the corporate offices now occupy. And then just this week across the street in it's current home.

Really amazing to watch the growth. It's quite impressive.

I diversify my hosting much same way as I diversify my billing and pick out a couple or three of the best players and spread business around. But as I told Bill at the show, anything I have that absolutely positively has to be up all the time goes to Natnet.

I'm a qualified *nix admin and developer in my own right, so I do my own monitoring above and beyond what the host provides always. I'm not only checking simple pings, I'm looking at things like database query latency to see how the box is performing. And Natnet is the only host who I have never once seen have a problem where I caught it before the NOC did. Major kudos.

Only single point of failure I saw at National Net is the city of Atlanta itself. If they ever go down, there's probably nothing else in the southeast or probably eastern seaboard online either. And we'll all have bigger fish to fry.

09-25-2008	#17
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	Re: Thoughts on the Atlanta Forum Yeah, I forgot to mention the data center tour. And I'm not even going to say who was entertaining us with hair lipped midget jokes on the way back to the hotel. I've now seen Natnet when it was over at 230 p'tree. Again a few years later when it was in the space the corporate offices now occupy. And then just this week across the street in it's current home. Really amazing to watch the growth. It's quite impressive. I diversify my hosting much same way as I diversify my billing and pick out a couple or three of the best players and spread business around. But as I told Bill at the show, anything I have that absolutely positively has to be up all the time goes to Natnet. I'm a qualified *nix admin and developer in my own right, so I do my own monitoring above and beyond what the host provides always. I'm not only checking simple pings, I'm looking at things like database query latency to see how the box is performing. And Natnet is the only host who I have never once seen have a problem where I caught it before the NOC did. Major kudos. Only single point of failure I saw at National Net is the city of Atlanta itself. If they ever go down, there's probably nothing else in the southeast or probably eastern seaboard online either. And we'll all have bigger fish to fry.