Re: [cobalt-users] RE: No.. No... Not hosting on cable...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicolae wrote:

> No... No.. mis-communication here. I am not looking to host on cable
> or ever, but thought about it.  I am at home PC running Time Warner
> cable connection to browse the internet.

We're all glad you decided against it <smile>.

>  I use a data-center
> in Virnginia (I am in Calif) and have a leased Cobalt 4 Raq
> unit in their data center.

How come so far from home, lots of people offer lots of good stuff in
California, you know.  We host at Inflow in San Diego.

> http://www.dslreports.com/monitored/pp/65.170.79.187

> I think the reports I get above from DSLReports might be able
> to tell my ISP that something is wrong and their new T1 Line
> they got in the datacenter is not really helping...

It's just a chart showing the result of a lot of pings.  I don't know
how often they're pinging, but if they're doing it continuously you
should know that enough pings can definitely slow down a server.

What kind of connectivity does your datacenter have?  You still haven't
told us who you're with, I don't think, but their T-1s are supplied by
Sprint.

When I use Visualware's VisualRoute Server from Dulles, Virginia, to
trace to them in in Manassas, Virginia, the traceroute goes from Dulles,
to Dallas, to Ft. Worth (both Texas), then to Atlanta, Georgia, then to
Elkridge, Maryland, then back to Virginia.  Kind of bounces all over the
place.  That's what can happen when one company (Sprint in this case)
tries to keep the data on its own Network.

Now while the traceroute may be wrong in that some IP#s may not be where
Arin thinks they are, nevertheless, that's a lot of hops from Dulles to
Manassas.

> I am only hosting sites for cleints I design their site for.
> I might as well lease a cobalt for 150/month and host 15-20
> sites pay the bill and also park my 10 or so domains also.

Sounds good, but you do get what you pay for.  We charge more; in fact
probably what you'd consider a lot more, but we offer more as well.  For
starters, 100 gigabytes of transfer per month, and bandwidth shaped at
each machine to the equivalent of 3-1/3 T-1 lines.

> Maybe smeone can shed a light on this report:
> http://www.dslreports.com/monitored/pp/65.170.79.187
> Let me know what you think... you can email me
> or reply here...

It's a graphic representation of a whole bunch of pings.  The numbers
represent round-trip times between them and your machine.  Often called
"latency".  It's not really indicative of the speed between your server
and anywhere else; for example, if you pinged anyone through a satellite
connection your latency would be in the area of 150 to 300 or more, but
your speed would still be pretty fast.

Jeff
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