[Gllug] Server ISP recommended?

[Sean Burlington]

Jan Kokoska wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:43 +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jan Kokoska wrote:

>>>In particular, what do you guys think about Positive Internet?
>>
>>They're clueful Debian geeks. What more do you need to know ? :-)
> 
> 
> We have had a big client with banking app for about 2 years colocating
> half rack with us who has fleed PI before.
> 
> Apart from that I know nil about PI, except everybody into FOSS
> obviously recommends them, frequently without personal experience. Same
> goes for Bytemark, but there are some people who actually have the UMLs
> who complain quite a lot. I am afraid I would need more info on PI, 
> 

I had a site on a shared server with positive - it was horribly unreliable

some of this was just the nature of shared servers - but some of it was 
the downside of a service run by "clueful Debian geeks"

this was my last email from positive tech support before I went elsewhere:

"If there is a substantial outage, we will always make an announcement. 
A minor PHP upgrade wouldn't normally be cause for alarm, except for the 
flakiness of PHP. You can't win with it, really. We had customers 
screaming that an upgrade needed to be performed because their sites 
don't work, you do the upgrade, and bang! you've blown away somebody 
else's site.

I Hate PHP... Ack."

I'm no great fan of php - but that was what we were paying for.

I'm also currently looking into a new colo contract so I'm interested if 
anyone has different experience of positive ...

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Sean
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