Hello, how would you rate Layeredtech's servers, network, and support?

the network is great, they use TP's bandwidth never had problems. The hardware is pretty good. The support is decent never had any long support requests.

Thanks a lot! I will check them out!

there are very good company with support and servers so go ahed and take it ;)

First class and they like FreeBSD, which says a lot IMO, I have no complaints to date.

They are nice people and I recommended them without hesitation.

I am just looking into them and so far they have been amazing. When ever i call them i get the response i want but havent tested their actuall servers yet.

Forgot to say that the network is quick and the hardware is stable.

Now am I going to regret saying the hardware is stable :)

Originally posted by cpbb
Forgot to say that the network is quick and the hardware is stable.

Now am I going to regret saying the hardware is stable :)

Why are you going to regret saying that the hardware is stable? Thank's for all of your help!

Originally posted by kidclark02
Why are you going to regret saying that the hardware is stable? Thank's for all of your help!

Everytime I say "that box has been up for XXX days" they ususally need rebooting, that could be at any NOC or DC.

It was just a joke :D

Ha Ha, thanks for the clarification.

No problem.

Perhaps I will use <joke> at the end of my attempts at humour next time.

BTW do a search on these people in here, they have been discussed before.

So far I've been very happy (just over a month and a half I think). Setup was a couple of days (due to sending CC scans), but contacted me to find out the exact install I wanted (Debian).

When I first got onto the box the transfer speeds were well under what I expected (about 100KB/s) and so contacted support to see if they could suggest anything. They got onto it extremely quickly and started testing around, even swapping the NIC around.

In the end, even a freshly compiled Intel driver didn't sort it so tried upgrading to the 2.4.26 kernel, and that sorted it fine.

So far so good.

If its layeredtech.com their IP is in The Planet

Originally posted by z280 Hosting
If its layeredtech.com their IP is in The Planet

Yes, they colo in TP. ;)

Can someone clarify what providers they use? I know it is the planets DC but not everyone uses thePlanets providers..

I noticed on their website 'Cogent' advertised...

Talk to me on vent rich, ill give you their details.

I managed to find this but it was for colocation so dont know whether it would be different for dedicated or what.

5 Carrier Backbone connectivity
Metro Fiber Networks, GlobalCrossings , ATT, UUNet, Qwest, Internap, Cogent

Originally posted by X-Gaming
Can someone clarify what providers they use? I know it is the planets DC but not everyone uses thePlanets providers..

I noticed on their website 'Cogent' advertised... They just have TP's old bandwidth providers listed on their site. They do in fact use TP bandwidth, I've been testing out a server with them.

-Josh

Thank you

I only have one server with LT. It's been pretty solid. Network has been solid with the exception of what looks like one Level3 router - 63.209.48.110 - that sometimes wigs out for a few minutes. But that might just be my route that I happen to get sometimes.

Thanks a lot! This information is helpful. If you have any more to add please do.

Originally posted by Joshua
They just have TP's old bandwidth providers listed on their site. They do in fact use TP bandwidth, I've been testing out a server with them.

-Josh

Post a nice review for us in the future, Josh. :P

Actually, do you (or does anyone) know if they use theplannet's 2 cable system where they have 2 lines going from each server?

Originally posted by z280 Hosting
Post a nice review for us in the future, Josh. :P

Actually, do you (or does anyone) know if they use theplannet's 2 cable system where they have 2 lines going from each server?
The LT servers have single NICs, I'm not sure if their router has a single or dual network drop from ThePlanet though. Either way though, I've found the network to be rock solid & it performs exactly the same as ServerMatrix & ThePlanet servers (I have an external monitor set up monitoring pings to both SM/TP and LT).

- Matt