Hi, can someone tell me the speed of a shared web hosting provide by www.pair.com if the site is accessed from USA? I use www.tracert.com to access http://www.pair.com and the time required is 9sec. Also I use http://webservices.cnet.com/ping.htm and get a 144ms ping time. I think it is slow, itsn't it?

By all accords Pair are extremely fast - I wouldn't worry about speed when using them.

Matt

I was with them 2 or 3 years ago. They had no problem with link at that time.

-Apollo

I have used them for more than 1 year, and they are really fast!
I would recommend them to anyone.

A business partner of mine used to host a few dozen of his sites with Pair, and I can tell you they are very fast.

Just goes to show that pinging a server with some of these free tracert tools is not a very reliable method of finding out the speed and/or reliablility of a host, as there are many factors involved.

Originally posted by avara
A business partner of mine used to host a few dozen of his sites with Pair, and I can tell you they are very fast.

Just goes to show that pinging a server with some of these free tracert tools is not a very reliable method of finding out the speed and/or reliablility of a host, as there are many factors involved.

Amen to that. I won't say anything about our network (read our Web site for that!) but will point out that when you test a site from one location, you determine performance from only one location and at only one time.

We utilize the global performance monitoring services of Keynote, and the daily score is 0.28 to 0.31, while the Keynote business benchmark is around 0.95 to 1.15 these days (it used to be much worse).

The key to good performance overall is multihoming, avoiding saturation, and using wire-speed equipment everywhere possible.

Kevin

I used to have an account with Pair -- it was quite fast.

Pair is quite well-known in their speed.

Hey.

I’ve Been with them for 5-years. Trust me, there is nothing faster, and more reliable than Pair Networks anywhere. I run nonstop trace routes from one end of the globe to the other, day and night. I have yet to find a provider with as few hops, and blazing fast ping times as them.

Oh.. And you want to talk multihoming, or fail over? Well, to date I’ve only see this theory ‘actually’ work at pair. Believe me, when a circuit goes down there (Exceptionally Rare), there is not so much as a hiccup in connectivity. One of their shadow circuits will takeover before you can say Howard Stern!!

I only know this from being lucky enough to have witnessed a DOS attack on them one night; well not lucky really…. Just at the right place at the right time to watch pair in action. Here’s what I saw…

In less than a minute, my circuit, which was quickly becoming saturated, was switched over to an alternate route while I watched with my Trace Route. In less than 20-minutes, the offending hosts were blocked, and my standard route was seamlessly restored. NOW THAT”S FAST! Yeah, I just used VisualRoute and kept hitting the refresh button.

In 5-years, the most amount of downtime I experienced is when they moved to their new data center, and that was under 90-minutes, NOT 8 hours, or something as outrageous as that.

Uptime? I’ve seen my host go almost 8 months without a restart. The only reason why it never goes beyond that is eventually, an upgrade of some sort will require a restart.

Server loads? Hah… It’s exceptionally rare you’ll ever see a pair server go much beyond the likes of 0.25 upwards to 0.50. Resources are well managed, and even better, all their Mysql resides on “separate/dedicated” servers. This frees up substantially more resources on their shared hosts, which I suspect is the reason overloads are very seldom here.

Here another good one. Hard drive or motherboard swap? Nahhhh… Not 30 minutes, 1-hour, or 4 hours... Pair swaps a hard drive in less than 10 minutes, AND it restores itself without the server ever going off line. Actually, I don’t know exactly how they do that, other than the fact they have a habit of changing hardware before it completely fails. I think the old drive transfers to the new one, but the server stays up the whole time!

Same with motherboards—Generally under 7 to 12 minutes of total downtime. Well… Unless something of a freak nature happens, which will occasionally, but even then, 30-minutes maximum, and I’ve only seen that a couple of times in 5-years.

Pair is not for the $10 a month bargain hunter. As for tech support, If you’re looking for a babysitter like host, such as the ones that (while certainly friendly), are not terribly knowledgeable, then pair is not for you.

The Pair folks are 100% Hardcore Unix geeks— not simply juniors with a nice smile. They have great support, and if you have a “REAL” problem, rest assured…. You get solid “qualified” answers, and none of this silly (um… gee did you try pinging your host) type nonsense.

I went through 9 other hosts before finding pair, and I could write a book on the nightmares I experienced. I pay $29.95 a month, and it’s worth every last cent. Hell… I’d pay more if I had to. When I hang out here, and see some of the Screams, plea’s, and “HELP… My host is down again”, I think... thank God for Pair, otherwise I’d be a prime candidate for Paxil and Prozac combined by now :stickout

No.. I don’t work for pair but I sort of wish I did. I’m just really happy with their service, which is unusual for me, as I generally gripe about everything. Hat’s off to pair Networks!

I believe Pair has a private data center as well as a high performance network... I know of many sites hosted by them... All of which experience excellent uptime..

- Brandon