[Gllug] vmware hosting companies

[dave.lambley at gmail.com]

By guarantee, they presumably mean that they will refund you your hosting charges for any downtime, rather than pay what the downtime has cost you. Not a lie, but the same level of dishonesty as railway ticket refunds I suppose.

Dave 

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org>
Sender: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:14:03 
To: Greater London Linux User Group<gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Reply-To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] vmware hosting companies

On Sat, July 23, 2011 13:11, Oliver Howe wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a vmware hosting company, to host linux servers on?
> I've done a quick search and some of them say they garentee 100% uptime
> which is a bold statement.

That's not a bold statement, it's a lie.

> We called up our current provider the other day (they too boast of 100%
> uptime on their website)

Having had 100% uptime in the past is no guarantee of future performance.



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