Check out this press release. ***** think's they are superman now! WTF?

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011220/dath008_1.html

OC-3 Internap fiber connection and our triple redundanct


internap ? redundanct ? :eek:

It took only 0.3032 of a millisecond to connect from Boca Raton to the servers in Bedford

Someone's going to get a Nobel Prize... they discovered Tachyons!

I am thinking of getting their 2 dedicated for 1 price offer.

are they really that good ? How's their support , speed and reliability?

are they really that good ? How's their support , speed and reliability? [/B]

Do a search on this forum. You'll find much more than you want to know.

Originally posted by vegs
I am thinking of getting their 2 dedicated for 1 price offer.

are they really that good ? How's their support , speed and reliability?
Are you crazy? ***** is the worst hosting company you can choose.

Originally posted by bombino


Do a search on this forum. You'll find much more than you want to know.

Agreed, ***** is everyones nightmare,err I forgot another one.. oh yeah championhost too.. both are experts, I repeate "experts" in their fields (extra billing, duping clients and copying others layout respectively) and both provide nothing but more and more unauthorized charges and new flashy layouts (nice ones tho) (***** and championhost.com respectively).

On a seperate note.. "***** is consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostIndex.com, and Web Host Directory" How on this planet are they on top 5? something seems fishy :erm:

How you ask ?
money talks, poor people walk :(

I bet yea, ***** paid Yahoo a lot of $$$ for this article:D :D

One thing I agree with is that their servers/network is definitely fast, whatever else the case may be.

One thing I agree with is that their servers/network is definitely fast, whatever else the case may be.
Have they actually changed over the past year? I tried one of their shared plans 18 months ago (the 1GB of disk space plan) and there servers were the slowest I've ever experienced. Email was delayed 20-30 minutes, and ftp frequently would not even connect. Plus the fastest transfer I could get was 20 Kbps on a connection that usually got 40 - 200 Kbps from other servers... I don't know if they had throttlling in place or if their servers were just that overloaded... Maybe they just packed customers in on those though, so their dedicated boxes would be better.

The best was their technical support who were so clueless it was funny :rolleyes:

Compared to Popular Sites
Site Response Time *

CNN.com 0.0775
Disney 0.0790
Disney.com 0.0878
DELL 0.1910
Deja.com 0.2153
remarkablehosting.net 0.2216
Gateway.com 0.2713
Landsend.com 0.3310
Slashdot 0.3837
Yahoo! 0.3923
CompUSA.com 0.4250

Can I get a press release now.. ????

Are those ping times, or what??
DREW

No need to do a search here just go to the bbb.com and type in their name. Gives them all the justice in the world.. At least there are still a few companies that money cant buy.

Brian

Can I get a press release now.. ????
Only If I can get one. =)

CNN.com 0.0471
Disney 0.0787
Disney.com 0.0879
mchost.com 0.1476
DELL 0.1907

Not to take sides because i know ci has screwed many people but keep in mind that there are a ton of companies that use them

Obviously they must be happy or ci would not be in business.

As many horror stories i have read, they have thousands of happy customers as well

Joe

A long time ago, before my hosting days (3 years ago), I used to host with them and tried to resell their service. They were sooooooooooooo slow that I stopped hosting with them. But, I do give ***** one thing, their tech support is GREAT! So its love hate thing: good support, sucky connection.

So, it is kind of GREAT to hear that they may have upped their connection speed.

Tom

***** screwed me over, and everyone in that company tried to act dumb in the situation. I got overcharged 3 times, each time a new excuse. First, it was a software problem, then a employee problem, then a back-up problem. Everything happened in exact intervals 20 minutes. They finnally rebated my money, but it took forever.

They havent changed, crappy service, broken promises, and more. Sure they might have someone to answer the phone 24/7/365, but what good does that do if the person answering knows nothing, and it will cost $200 to call someone who knows something. I mean, a simple thing like a question about an FTP or a email error, and that tech support would say, "im sorry, we are going to have to call a Tier 2 guy, it will be $200.00, I will charge it to your credit card."

Its stupid.

Jim

Well, actually, I do back that up. Their tech is 24/7, but there was one time that my credit card DID get charged like 3 TIMES in one month! I called them up, they gave me run around, but it did get resolved. What was annoying about it is that they did it AGAIN later!!!! It got resolved too....

About their tech, yeah, they were kind of out there. They were asking me about certain stuff at one point. But I guess just speaking to a human is a reassuring feeling.

Main thing is, the problem got fixed.... as for how long it took, well some more then others. What gave me the headache most was their dang SLOW connection!!!! If they sped that up, I'd go back to them and possibly resell.

We'll see. Like I said, love/hate kind of thing.

Tom

Originally posted by JBIZ718
Not to take sides because i know ci has screwed many people but keep in mind that there are a ton of companies that use them

Obviously they must be happy or ci would not be in business.

As many horror stories i have read, they have thousands of happy customers as well

Joe
That may well be true, but where do they get off issuing a press release about having one of the "fastest connection speeds in the industry" when RemarkableHosting, MCHost, InterSurge, and IntenseInfo score a 0.2216, 0.1476, 0.1873, and 0.1878, respectively, against *****'s pressworthy speed of 0.3032?

Their manipulation of the press is unbelievable.

Wait a (milli)second... They claim 0.3032 of a millisecond from texas to florida. That is BULL****.

Again, they claim milliseconds NOT seconds.

Ofcourse when I run the test on alertsite.com I get 0.4530 seconds for *****.

0.3032 milliseconds would be amazing!

Oh. and for the record the "web test" by alertsite is not only measuring the speed of the network. The results include the speed of the remote web site including any programing/database access etc that is used to create the page.

Basically, ***** is comparing the speed of a static page hosted on their network with the complicated dynamic pages generated by CNN, Yahoo, Ebay etc

Based on this they conclude that their network is "super fast" or some crap... agg

Daddy, can I have a fancy press release for Christmas too?

Compared to Popular Sites
Site Response Time *
CNN.com 0.0480
Disney 0.0817
plusweb.com 0.1014
Disney.com 0.1200
DELL 0.1809
Deja.com 0.2175
Gateway.com 0.2626
Amazon.com 0.3477
Yahoo! 0.3928
CompUSA.com 0.4221
Slashdot 0.4337
TheStreet.com 0.4341
Landsend.com 0.5048

Doesn't alertsite just measure how fast a Web page loads as accessed from their server? It's not a distributed long-term testing system like Keynote.

Kevin

you tech guys should contact Yahoo regarding that posting and have it removed if it is technically false or impossible just my 2 cents...

Originally posted by Fred
you tech guys should contact Yahoo regarding that posting and have it removed if it is technically false or impossible just my 2 cents...

Done! :D

Mail sent to finance-admin@yahoo-inc.com

Sir,
The press release listed on your site at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011220/dath008_1.html, is incorrect, inappropriate and misleading. The results shown are based on the load time of actual site and do not justify the speed of the network a host is on.

You might know this well but misleading releases will make you or your company responsible for the results (Which I must say are definately negative). This issue is being discussed at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29676 and you can look at the URL for more information.

Thanking you and hoping for a prompt action.

Regards,

Varun Shoor

Originally posted by Fred
you tech guys should contact Yahoo regarding that posting and have it removed if it is technically false or impossible

It isn't *impossible* to get from florida to texas and back in 0.3 ms. It just requires the use of faster-than-light particles.

We should be congratulating ***** for their work in commercializing the as yet unannounced work which has lead to the discovery of tachyons, not lambasting them for dishonesty.

Hey Yarun, this Buds for you... :beer:

Ok so its not impossible theoretically, but currently unavailabe as far as technology permits.. :idea:

Originally posted by Fred
Hey Yarun, this Buds for you... :beer:

Ok so its not impossible theoretically, but currently unavailabe as far as technology permits.. :idea:

Its Varun hehe, this ones in return :beer:

They probably shut all their clients down while performing the speed test. :D

Originally posted by VarunShoor
"***** is consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostIndex.com, and Web Host Directory" How on this planet are they on top 5? something seems fishy :erm:

The mentioned web host indexes/lists are crooks that list No1 the highest $ contributer to their pocket :angry:

YES, I AM AN EX-*****-VICTIM!