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Something that you want to keep in mind with 100TB is that they have pulled companies before, and left them in pretty dire straights. http://gigaom.com/cloud/s

by e1ven 14y ago

Something that you want to keep in mind with 100TB is that they have pulled companies before, and left them in pretty dire straights. http://gigaom.com/cloud/simplecdn-takedown-a-cautionary-tale-for-resellers/ http://gigaom.com/cloud/simplecdn-takedown-a-cautionary-tale... I don't want to try to guess why they did that, but it's something that should never be forgotten.

ghshephard 14y ago
So - that pretty much answers my question. If you actually start to use that 100TB, they drop you as a customer. TANSSAAFL, so, if it looks to good to be true ($0.33/mbit/second on Softlayer network) - then it probably is. I'd be very interested though, in what people have been able to sustain per server at 100TB without getting dropped. My guess is that it's somewhere around 32 Terabytes/month per server before 100TB gets a little angsty (100 mbits/second sustained), particularly if you have more than a dozen or so servers with them (filling out a GigE sustained)
Haplo 14y ago
They recently shut down all the servers of a Chinese reseller with 45 servers after a lot of their servers were the target of a DDOS. It's of course understandable to disable those servers in case of a big DDOS, but the problem was that they gave the reseller 24 hours (during the weekend) to backup the data. It's pretty much impossible to do this in the weekend without even the passwords of the customers. Imagine receiving this email when you wake up (probably some time after it was sent) and having to get new servers immediately somewhere, emailing/phoning customers for their passwords and then also having to transfer potential TB's per server in the small remaining time frame. After posting on WHT (meaning after a PR disaster), 100TB did extend the deadline. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1218922 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1218922 I was considering them for a high-bandwidth project, but after reading these cases I changed my mind.
- marblar 14y ago
  Does Tom ever reply in that thread?

by e1ven 14y ago

ghshephard 14y ago

So - that pretty much answers my question. If you actually start to use that 100TB, they drop you as a customer. TANSSAAFL, so, if it looks to good to be true ($0.33/mbit/second on Softlayer network) - then it probably is. I'd be very interested though, in what people have been able to sustain per server at 100TB without getting dropped. My guess is that it's somewhere around 32 Terabytes/month per server before 100TB gets a little angsty (100 mbits/second sustained), particularly if you have more than a dozen or so servers with them (filling out a GigE sustained)

Haplo 14y ago

They recently shut down all the servers of a Chinese reseller with 45 servers after a lot of their servers were the target of a DDOS. It's of course understandable to disable those servers in case of a big DDOS, but the problem was that they gave the reseller 24 hours (during the weekend) to backup the data. It's pretty much impossible to do this in the weekend without even the passwords of the customers. Imagine receiving this email when you wake up (probably some time after it was sent) and having to get new servers immediately somewhere, emailing/phoning customers for their passwords and then also having to transfer potential TB's per server in the small remaining time frame. After posting on WHT (meaning after a PR disaster), 100TB did extend the deadline. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1218922 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1218922 I was considering them for a high-bandwidth project, but after reading these cases I changed my mind.

marblar 14y ago
Does Tom ever reply in that thread?