The IT Skeptic - Comments for "My host is WestHost"

not even Murphy's Law

skeptic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:53:58 +0000

It is not even Murphy's Law: it is some other weird effect that any time I say something is going well guarantees it will soon go wrong. Today the POP3 wasn't working - first problem in ages. I got on Live Chat to support, they fixed it in a minute.

good question

skeptic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:42:00 +0000

good question. Clearly it is unwise to host in a place as risky as the USA but the pipe from NZ to the world is distinctly third-world: unreliable and variable. A third of readers are from North America and another third from Europe. Hosting with WestHost gives me a SAS 70 Type II certified bunker (whatever that is) with "Tier 1 connections to the Internet backbone available through multiple gigabit Ethernet connections with scalability to OC-48 and beyond. We are peered with Verizon, XO, Global Crossing, Level 3, and ELI. In addition, a private microwave communications network provides options for backup transmission. " Or in English: it's close to the backbone and on a fat pipe.

And it's cheap.

Curious

buraddo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:10:27 +0000

Why host in the northern hemisphere ?

Brad Vaughan