looking for URL's hosted on dv2/tranxactglobal servers [Archive]

jmars

02-25-2002, 05:46 AM

Hey, if you can get a list of sites hosted at dv2, that’d be awesome.

PM these people:
kiwi
universal2001

And, mm... I dunno. I think there’s at least 2 or 3 others I’ve seen comment on dv2, saying how happy they were with them. If you search for dv2, dv2.com, tranxactglobal, tranxactglobal.com, and other variations, you can find a few more. I think I recall seeing ‘drewnick’ as a happy colocating customer there.

see if you can get their ips or domain names.

I myself asked Kiwi, the guy from MCHost, for an ip and he never responded to me. He did post publically saying he liked the servers, though. Despite his silence, I think he’s believable. If you search for McHost here, you’ll see that they’re pretty well respected -- most customers seem to like MCHost, and happily refer people to them.

You can also play dirty, of course, and just run through their whole block of ips.

dv2.com, for instance, resolves to dv2.net at 209.51.128.22. From this, you can see that they (or the isp that owns them) own the own netblock from 209.51.128.0 - 209.51.159.255. You can just run through the numbers. 209.51.128.100, for instance, is just the plain old apache install page. So are lots I randomly checked, and tons of others are actual clients pages. I think this is playing dirty, since we’re really getting information without permission and not really respecting their customers privacy... but the internet is set up this way -- it’s all very public if you know what you’re doing. Ethically challenging.

It’s going to give you exactly what you want, though. You’re going to find insane amounts of sites they host that you can freely browse.

Now, if you can get a standard web page on a few servers like you want so much the better. I’ve always wanted this myself. I like to check speeds around the world with tracert.com’s speed-meter service -- looking at the part that gives k/sec. (I also recommend this service to every human being I meet, whether they have an interest in server speed or not -- a really bad social ‘tick’ i have) These #s are REALLY HARD to compare between host to host because, as you well know, none have the same webpages up, of the same size, with the same # of images, and same size of images. And a loaded or unoptimized server gives lower results. So it’s all very skewed. (actually, if you could compare all apache config pages, that wouldn’t be such a bad test. it’d show you throughput for simple, short pages)

After you get a few ips, though, do check ‘em out with the free speed-meter service to your hearts content. It might not be the ideal way to compare servers from different companies, but at @ the price of free, the data it gives you is still well worth a look. :)

Also download visualroute from visualroute.com and neo-trace from neoworx.com. With these, especially neo-trace, you can see a variety of network problems and whatnot. With neo-trace, you can have it ping every single point along the way every 5 seconds, and add all the results together over many hours to see maximum time, min, and avg. You have to fiddle with the program settings a bit to get it to add route averages together from All data collected, not just from the last 3 pings, or whatever it defaults to. It’s all right there in the config pages, thankfully -- just be sure to go to config page and choose exactly what you want.

pingplotter from pingplotter.com, too, is a great performance tool.

With these tools, on the route from my home pc to dv2, I see that ge1-1.atluna.as.unaatlga.net has had a lot of congestion. Probably needs a new higher speed routers. A Juniper Warship Series 8billion zillion class condensed fiber phase 3 super router, or whatever they have these days, Jim. :)

Good luck. Please share whatever results you get on the forums. Seems like some people ignore their private messages or just don’t want to help their fellow man. Selfish buggers. Tsk, tsk.