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Re: [cobalt-users] Problems w/ Cobaltracks.com

I've been able to cancel a more then a few servers with them, they simply refund my money

PS: Heres what i got from Cobalt Racks Today

Hello,
We had a minor mixup we are provisioning system. If your concerned please
check your /proc/cpuinfo on your RAQ4



At 07:24 PM 12/4/2000 -0900, you wrote:
>   Are you guys swapping raq3's and selling them as raq4's?   


_________________________________________________________________
Gary Peltola
gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web Hosting Network
http://www-hosting.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Etheridge" <DavidE@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Problems w/ Cobaltracks.com


: Another thought. Are Cobalt Racks in Breech of contract here through lack of
: service (for the customers like me who have have connectivity outages).
: Surely in that case you can cancel your contract (as I intend to)
: immediately as they originaly broke the contract not the customer? Any ideas
: folks?
: 
: Dave Etheridge
: 
: -----Original Message-----
: From: LightSpeedServers.Net [mailto:admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
: Sent: 02 December 2000 20:22
: To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Problems w/ Cobaltracks.com
: 
: 
: What server are you using w/ Cobaltracks.com - are you in the process of
: leaving to?
: 
: When your making a  couple hundred per month per server, a refund really
: isn't good when you consider you lost twice as much in customers!!  Though,
: I am jeleous, I could not even get that from them!
: 
: Thank you,
: 
: Michael T. Ross
: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "John Cordeiro" <jcordeiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:27 PM
: Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Problems w/ Cobaltracks.com
: 
: 
: > I got a refund for last month because of the down time. YEs its getting
: > worse. They told be it was due to Cable & Wireless upgrading their
: Backbone.
: >
: > John Cordeiro
: >
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
: > LightSpeedServers.Net
: > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 1:45 PM
: > To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > Subject: [cobalt-users] Problems w/ Cobaltracks.com
: >
: >
: > Hey, guess what!  I too have had no end of problems with this company.
: The
: > connection time gets so bad I cannot connect to my server at least 2 to 3
: > times a day.  Each time it lasts about 20 minutes.  And then 1 to 2 times
: a
: > month they have everything go to heck for almost a full day.  Look at the
: > prior posts, they had the same issue occur last month!!
: >
: > My server was up and running for a bit this morning then things went to
: hell
: > for about a half hour.  Some of you probably will get a laugh out of the
: > traceroute.  I have included it at the bottom of this.  Sort of reminds me
: > of that old bugs bunny show w/ the cartoon character George who always
: said
: > "Which way do I go, which way do I go".  As you can see from the
: traceroute
: > it has no clue where it was going!
: >
: > Anyway, what I have been in the process of doing is to purchase my own
: > server, and lease the line itself at a real collocation facility.  The no
: > thrills type, where you are just renting space and a connection, and where
: I
: > myself have 24/7 access!  That way I maintain the highest level possible
: of
: > control at all steps of the way.
: >
: > Currently, I am looking at a 728kbs dedicated leased line.  Considering I
: > only will have 2 servers which do not use that much BW I expect this
: should
: > work out nicely for me as it will provide much more reliable bandwidth
: > during peak.  Less bottleneck caused by sticking hundreds of servers on a
: > line already at capacity!!  Lets face it, you can have a DS-3 or higher,
: but
: > if you overload it with hundreds of servers, its simply is not going to
: work
: > very well.  A slower line with only a few servers is much better.
: >
: > If anyone is interested in sharing the cost of a leased line, please
: contact
: > me.  If a few of us get together we can get a 10 mbs connection w/o a
: > problem!!  Currently, the cost I am getting is about 1.50 to 2.00 per GB
: > transfer, $100 per 256 IPs, and $25.00 per 1U of rack space.  Oh, and I
: > tested a server on their network for 3 days straight w/ no downtime!!
: >
: > And one final thought.  Cobalttracks.com knows the value of uptime on a
: > website.  Have you ever noticed that their server never goes down.  Next
: > time your connection goes to hell, check out their site.  They made sure
: to
: > route theirs seperately.  That tells me something about their company, it
: > should tell you something as well!
: >
: > Thank you,
: >
: > Michael T. Ross
: > admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: >
: > 1 10.33.56.1 *  10 12 9 10
: > 2 24.95.225.134 HE7-Central-GSR-P00.cfl.rr.com  23 6 13 50
: > 3 24.95.225.18 HE6-Central-GSRA-P20.cfl.rr.com  13 8 12 19
: > 4 24.95.225.113 HE5-Central-GSRA-P40.cfl.rr.com  13 7 7 25
: > 5 24.95.226.106 HE5-Central-GSRC-P20.cfl.rr.com  10 10 13 7
: > 6 24.94.158.74 TPA-ERL-GSRC-P40.cfl.rr.com  24 21 12 39
: > 7 208.172.67.129 acr1-serial2-1-0-0.Atlantaald.cw.net  33 39 27 33
: > 8 206.24.226.61 acr1-loopback.Washingtondck.cw.net  50 47 44 60
: > 9 206.24.226.8 bar3-loopback.Washingtondck.cw.net  62 45 67 74
: > 10 208.173.0.122 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  126 146 121
: 110
: > 11 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  149 114 107
: 227
: > 12 208.155.65.163   538 637 558 418
: > 13 208.155.65.167   201 168 171 264
: > 14 208.173.0.118 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  397 453 491
: 246
: > 15 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  344 275 241
: 515
: > 16 208.173.0.114 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  618 994 462
: 397
: > 17 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  382 481 370
: 296
: > 18 208.173.0.118 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  944 910 1045
: 878
: > 19 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  802 821 736
: 850
: > 20 208.173.0.110 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1092 1433 1019
: > 824
: > 21 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  812 899 620
: 918
: > 22 208.173.0.110 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1339 1311 740
: > 1967
: > 23 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  1112 797 936
: > 1604
: > 24 208.173.0.118 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1562 1602 1542
: > 1542
: > 25 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  1130 1285 1288
: > 818
: > 26 208.173.0.118 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1596 1845 1475
: > 1469
: > 27 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  1628 * 1782
: 1475
: > 28 208.173.0.110 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1636 * 1631
: 1642
: > 29 208.173.0.121 bar3-serial4-0-0-9-0.Washingtondck.cw.net  1491 * 1713
: 1269
: > 30 208.173.0.110 visual-link-internet.Washingtondck.cw.net  1660 * 1660 *
: >
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