[Gllug] Server ISP recommended?

[jason johns]

Also.....

Sean

We have a few colocated servers so we might be able to help. The only problem is that I've been unable to find you in our database. Maybe you can
help my search by providing a domain name? 

Warm regards

Jason


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:02 +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> 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 ...
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sean

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