Does anyone use these guys?

What is the uptime like?

for network that is, not for their machines.

What is your experience like? Good? Bad? Anyone?

Were there any outages? network wise, lasting more then 5 minutes?

When was the last time your server was down because of a network issue?

www.defenderhosting.com is the URL.

Yes, i know the site isn't very clear. You have to email sales, and etc.

Oh, and even if you colo thats fine

I would still like to hear about it

btw i did a search
couldnt find nothing

They seem rather new... don't know how many review you'll find on them.

Yeah, i hope someone besides toastyx will reply :)

From what I seen on their Home Page:

Hours in the day..
Admin writes "How come there are not more hours in a day? We have an awesome web developer waiting to redo our site, but I cannot find the time to get him all the data he needs to create our new rocking site. I promise, I will try and get it done over this weekend, I promise.

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Posted by Admin on Thursday, April 18, 2002
And this is now 3 months later with the "new" rocking site still not done???

I would be looking elsewhere! Matter fact, I am. :D

The website problem is my issue, we've had quite a few false starts with different designers, etc.

Yes, we are rather new to the hosting world, just about a year now. We grew into the hosting business based on some of our other businesses in the network area, software development, networking, wireless, etc.

Anyhow, we are not one of the "All you can eat" type companies for $99 a month celeron/duron white box companies, we are not interested in that business. [edit, though we've had a few customers recently migrate from those sorts of providers and pay the higher fees for stability and support - all without any real advertising, just word of mouth]

Our focus is on colo, high bandwidth customers, and high-end machines. We have quite a few customers doing colo and buying bandwidth in 1Mbs chunks, and many on our high-end dual machines doing 1 to 5 Mbs a month.

We just turned up 6 new P4/2.0GHz machines last night, with 1GB RAM, 60GB IDE drives, on a dedicated 10/100Mbs switch port, and 4 of them were presold.

We are in quality locations, currently in ServInt in McLean and moving to Equinix Ashburn rather soon. We are a partner of BtN (aka ArdentComm, which BtN bought from Chap 11). I purchased a large amount of bandwidth from them, hence why I can do quality tier 1 bandwidth with over 60+ providers for $99/Mbs. On an OC3/OC12 nationwide MPLS backbone,with OC48 in the DC/MD/VA area moving to 192 in the fall.

I'm crazy about support (I hope some existing customers post here and share their history with us). I'm not about sizzle, we are what we are, and we haven't lost 1 customer since we've been in business (yet anyhow;) ).

So, it is what it is. If your looking for sizzle and fancy web pages, sorry to let you down, for now.

If your looking for a quality provider, quality hardware and support, then talk to us, if your looking for 2093820394GB of transfer for $99 a month on a Duron or Celeron emachines type box, then we're not the guy to talk to.

Heck, I even have a dual p3/1GHz unlim plesk server I use to GIVE AWAY hosting to non-profits and friends. This is the only virtual we do BTW, everything else is colo/dedicated.

As a matter of fact, I was at the DC last night until 4AM fighting with a customers Dell 4600 and a 2GB ram upgrade.....until one of the technical folks here had a much softer and gentler touch and got it working.

Tom

lol, don't judge a book by its cover ;)

Originally posted by Website Rob
From what I seen on their Home Page:


And this is now 3 months later with the "new" rocking site still not done???

I would be looking elsewhere! Matter fact, I am. :D