Hello everyone,
I'm deciding between these two companies. I want to run a simple vote (similar to the one in Florida) to see which company is better overall. So if anyone would like to join in and help me out by simply voting for DN (DigitalNation) or DI (Dialtoneinternet).
I hope I can make my mind up after this
Thanks a bunch!

Originally posted by sarun
I want to run a simple vote (similar to the one in Florida)...

Sorry, but I just couldn't let this one pass! A simple vote like Florida??? So once we all vote, people will complain that they meant to vote for DN, but the ballot was too complicated, and we'll have to recount the votes and get back to you in a month or so? Hee hee...

Back to your regularly scheduled vote...

I vote for chicken. Oh wait chicken wasnt on the ballot :)

I have no personal experience with Dialtone. However my experience with DN has been great. Fast customer support, excellent tech, good connection etc... Do a search for dn or digitalnation and it's bound to spew up something.

This one is difficult.

Both companies are really good, hardware, speed, support and price. I know both of them. I like both, DI is a little lower priced. DN is older and is owned by Verio. Your choice either or will not be bad.

Regards,

Romero

The simple fact is there aren't many of these decisions that are as black and white as "this host is always better than that one," especially when you are presenting two companies with good reputations and performance. There are differences between DN and DI that depending on your priorities might make one the better choice over the other.

I marked my ballot anyway, here it is:

DiNT

(with apologies to the voters of Palm Beach County)

My heart is saying DN but my bank account is saying DI. I don't know if any one is using a firewall service. I checked out both of the company's firewall price DN costs $1,000/month and $1,000 to setup but DI costs only $170/month abd about $150 to setup. Can anyone tell me why such difference in pricing? Will DI's firewall service protect me from the average hacker?
Thanks everyone.

If you are the do-it-yourself type, you can install something on the server yourself (ask the board for recomendations). Maybe this will help you in making up your mind.

A firewall will be useless if your system isn't secure. There is a free online book (although a little old), I believe it is called securing and optimizing Linux.

http://www.linuxdoc.org

A presume the pricing difference have some relation to feature and latency when packets go through the router.

DN also calculated bandwidth on an average basis, whilst DI uses the 95% percentile method.

[Edited by SysAdmin on 11-14-2000 at 04:14 PM]

Originally posted by SysAdmin
DN also calculated bandwidth on an average basis, whilst DN uses the 95% percentile method. What he meant to say was that Dialtone (DI) uses the 95th percentile method.

This is an important consideration; how important it is depends on your bandwidth needs. A good part of why DI's basic prices and their bandwidth prices appear to be so low is that they are using a different pricing technique than most of their competitors.

As I've said here before, I don't think the 95th percentile approach is bad or unfair, just pointing out that in terms of pricing when you compare these two companies you're comparing apples to oranges.

Well, the votes are finally counted after 5 months and 6 trips to the Supreme Court. Chicken is definately the winner. The fine print definately states that hanging dongles will be counted as votes for the primary non-balloted candidate..... :) (Sorry, old thread but I couldn't help being a smart___ on this one.)

I have 2 servers with DN, rather, the company i work has them there... there support has been okay.. we havent needed it much.. there was a lil mix up about some oracle licensing.. but that got sorted out...

as far as, DI is concerned, everyone seems to like then :)

Originally posted by SysAdmin
DN also calculated bandwidth on an average basis, whilst DN uses the 95% percentile method.


both calculat your average bandwidth usage.. none use the 95percentile any more..