Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:29:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: 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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103010818010.86068-100000@www.bellnetworks.net> In-Reply-To: <000701c0a22d$fa217aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Well, Peter, as I work for an ISP that competes in one of
> Verio's markets, I have an answer for you but your probably
> not going to like it, nor are you going to like my recommendations
> as to how to fix it.
>
> 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. 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.
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.
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Jim Freeze
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