From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 12:21:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D51A37B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f21KJNb94191; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:19:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:19:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD issues at iServer!!! In-Reply-To: <983476117.3a9ea7951f6eb@mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Quoting Jim Freeze : > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > > First of all, Iserver became unprofitable and ran out of money and > > > was acquired by Verio in 1998. In case you don't know this, > > > Iserver is a brand of Verio's, just like Oldsmobile is a brand > > > of General Motors. By now, any vestige of the original company has > > > undoubtedly long since been erased. > > > > > > > Hmmm, that is interesting. I was told a different story. I went to > > school > > with the founder of iServer. He told me that when Verio was snatching > > up > > web hosting companies that iServer was the only one that they purchased > > that was profitable, and they let them stay pretty much independent > > since > > they had their act together. > > Well, that's good to hear - of course the $64 question is why sell out then, > but if it's the case then they are unique among Verio's acquisitions. > > > Before the purchase, when iServer was a > > little more than a year old, they were valued at $20M. They had ~5000 > > hosting customers at an average of $75.00/mo which is $4.5M per year > > and > > growing. > > > > At the time, they had just moved into a new building and had only a > > handfull of employees. Their systems and racks were custom made and top > > of > > the line. All in all, a very sophisticated system. > > > > After Verio purchased them, I think they migrated all their customers > > to the West Virginia data center. > > > > Hmmm... Kind of starts to cast a little doubt on Verio letting them remain > independent, then. iServer had put a lot of effort into being able to remotely manage their servers. Other than needing a low skilled worker to --go to server A4 and pull drive #2 and replace it with drive type C.-- I think the new data center had a lot to offer and location was less of an issue. But this is just conjecture on my part. ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- "So, it should be relatively easy ... this is the phrase I use when someone else is the most obvious person to do something." Harry Ohlsen ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message