Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:48:37 -0800 (PST) From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Peter Baitz <peterb@themonetgroup.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG, jhk@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD issues at iServer!!! Message-ID: <983476117.3a9ea7951f6eb@mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103010818010.86068-100000@www.bellnetworks.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103010818010.86068-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
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Quoting Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>: > 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. > I haven't noticed degredation in performance since the move. All > downtimes > are promptly reported and customer service (except for an occasional > support dweeb) is very good. > > My current server has an uptime of 19 days. Not spectacular, but it > just > recently got a diskspace upgrade. > I'd say the issue isn't uptime, the issue is have you had any unscheduled downtime? Maybe Peter should have iServer clone your server :-) Ted > > ========================================================= > 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
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