RE: [cobalt-users] Farwell to the Cobalt Community

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Boehnlein
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:32 PM
To: Cobalt Users
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Farwell to the Cobalt Community


On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Dave Reid wrote:

> Howdy folks;
> 
> I know you did not hear from me very often, but I got untold amounts 
> of valuable information from your letters and I am very grateful. With

> cobalts no longer getting support, and our client base outgrowing the 
> RaQ3 we have been using for the last 3 years or so we decided it was 
> time for a change.

Smells like an advertisement to me.

Keep something in mind. Easy Admin is a managed hosting solution where
you 
pay DataPipe to host a server for you, and they charge you monthly for
the 
priviledge. It is -NOT- a replacement for a Cobalt unit, that you own, 
control and can break/fix as you please. You will be subject to the 
upstream providers that Datapipe provides.

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Well, we did not actually own the RaQ3, we already leased it from
datapipe, and the new server was the same price, I know the greater
percentage of you own your RaQ's, but many of us lease one like me. In
Northern Canada we just don't have the speed available that can be had
in the US, Datapipe is owned by Qwest and their primary connection is
OC-192. Those kinds of speeds just can't be had up here. We do run a
backup server out of our offices up here, but we only have a 2.5 MB ADSL
connection which is only 640K upstream. Our most cost effective solution
would be to co-locate our own custom built server, but as we are not
quite ready for that, this was the best solution for us. BTW, this is
not an advertisement for datapipe, we are just happy, long time
customers and I wanted to let others in simillar situations to us of a
fairly painless solution to the Cobalt issue. I appreciate the advice,
but we are actually aware of the information you mentioned.
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