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Bad Hair Day
7-14-03, 02:22 PM
Yep, it's true.....
Since I started with PowWeb, I've always been hosted on SPACE.
Sure it's gone down a few times, but that's probably less times than a few Nascar engines have blown ;)
The guys post information on what's happening, and I accept they are doing their level best to restore the status quo, so - Why bother busting a gut?
Does it really achieve anything, apart from having you reach for the antacid tablets?
:rolleyes:
In case you're wondering - Yes, I think PowWeb are excellent.
I couldn't find a better deal anywhere, however hard I tried.
BHD
I'm pulling my hair out .. .wait, MPB is already there, please see my pic at the left.
I do agree with the above poster; but it's frustrating. Space continues to be in its own solar system.:D
Philatelius
7-14-03, 02:34 PM
I'm with BHD on this one. I've also been on space since I signed up about a year ago. It's occasionally down for a bit, but PowWeb is still more reliable than any of the other hosts I've dealt with, paid or free. Besides, space doesn't seem to crash as often as my personal computer. ;-). Good luck to the tech guys, may they get us back up soon.
Fred Drouven
7-14-03, 02:44 PM
I have two packages, one on meteor and the other on space. Space is absolutely more down and a lot slower than meteor.
So sorry I can't agree.
silverhd
7-14-03, 02:58 PM
Fred,
I absolutely agree with you. May be, just may be their livelyhood doesn't depend on whether Space is up or not!!
Philatelius
7-14-03, 03:20 PM
You are correct, I'm just doing this for fun. If I were trying to make a living at it, I'd go straight for dedicated hosting.
... but it's frustrating anyway. Space is where I deploy projects for clients to review, so I can't do much work when it's down. And I do have about 2,000 RSS subscribers who ordinarily download newsfeeds from my site. So their news aggregators are ignoring me right now...
Is there something fundamentally different in how space is configured than the other servers? IIRC, space was the problem child before Powweb relocated to the new data center & migrated everything to new hardware...
cruella369
7-14-03, 03:28 PM
I'm putting off a meeting w/ a client, which is OK, these things happen. But if I had some idea, or a regular update, that would make life easier. Instead we are going on 4 hours without hearing ANYTHING! Please, jsut an ETA would help.
why isn't my server named something cool? hehe.
I'm on boring old www02
Suggested Server Names:
blackhole.powweb.com
wormhole.powweb.com
notsoperfecthost.powweb.com
:p
Philatelius
7-14-03, 03:50 PM
http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23275
so, it must be a hardware problem then .....
RAM: darn ram.
... the catalytic converter, mass airflow sensor & transmission fluid level while they have the hood up & space is on the rack anyway.
What? A server doesn't have a catalytic converter, mass airflow sensor, and transmission? No wonder!
Bad Hair Day
7-14-03, 04:11 PM
Originally posted by Philatelius
If I were trying to make a living at it, I'd go straight for dedicated hosting.
Too true.
If a business only warrants allocating $7.77 a month in their web server budget.............
:rolleyes:
BHD
mambogani
7-14-03, 05:10 PM
It is true that no business worth its salt should be on $7.77 hosting, especially when uptime is nowhere near what they claim.
But that equally does not mean any of us hobbyists/amateurs/part time businesses should have to put up with this downtime. I, and most others here, have many visitors who rely on the sites being up. I completely disagree with the first poster here - space has gone down a lot more than a few times, as well as associated issues like mySQL servers going down, etc. Are you saying that if you pay peanuts, you should expect monkeys??
Powweb throw in a huge amount of features for the price, but the no 1 thing has to be uptime - and they critically fail here. How is it that almost nobody else seems to offer what Powweb does - I mean, what is it these days...45Gb bandwidth monthly!!?? 650Mb disk?? Its incredible. The bandwidth alone is about 10 times more than other hosts. But read between the lines and you wonder whether its all a marketing ploy to lure you in, or whether they really do have an infrastructure to provide what they claim, and at these prices. I'm not convinced they can - they probably rely on the fact that only a tiny majority will ever use bandwidth/diskspace, etc to its limits.
Originally posted by Bad Hair Day
Too true.
If a business only warrants allocating $7.77 a month in their web server budget.............
:rolleyes:
BHD
BHD, we are having a BSD today ...
I hope $7.77 doesn't equal 77.7 percent time ....
Bad Hair Day
7-14-03, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by SDRadio
BHD, we are having a BSD today ...
Bill Gates bought out PowWeb?
Then we'd better expect a lot more down-time............
;)
BHD
Originally posted by Bad Hair Day
Bill Gates bought out PowWeb?
Then we'd better expect a lot more down-time............
;)
BHD
bsd= BAD SERVER DAY!
Space is the server that was down for 2-3 days last September. PowWeb did give affected sites a six-month credit for that incident.
Wow not a bad deal. I'd take 2-3 days downtime for 6 months credit. Haha.
The bandwidth alone is about 10 times more than other hosts. But read between the lines and you wonder whether its all a marketing ploy to lure you in, or whether they really do have an infrastructure to provide what they claim, and at these prices.
I have a friend online that works for an unnamed college, that also happens to have an OC3 fiber backbone running straight through the middle of it. As a little test, a few weeks ago, I asked if he would be so kind as to download a file from my site. A 27mb file, using the colleges network, downloaded at 2.88MByte/ps.
Powweb has too much bandwidth if you ask me. :P
I'm with the original poster though, been on space for almost a year now with maybe 2 minor outtages, and this present one. I'm satisfied.
--sinner
Originally posted by mambogani
How is it that almost nobody else seems to offer what Powweb does - I mean, what is it these days...45Gb bandwidth monthly!!?? 650Mb disk?? Its incredible. The bandwidth alone is about 10 times more than other hosts. But read between the lines and you wonder whether its all a marketing ploy to lure you in, or whether they really do have an infrastructure to provide what they claim, and at these prices. I'm not convinced they can - they probably rely on the fact that only a tiny majority will ever use bandwidth/diskspace, etc to its limits. dear genius, every web hosting place in the world relies on the fact that their customers will not use the maximum offered services. if they did, the web would come to a horrible, grinding halt and no one would be able to read your enlightening insights.
Bad Hair Day
7-15-03, 07:41 AM
Originally posted by galexia
dear genius, every web hosting place in the world relies on the fact that their customers will not use the maximum offered services. if they did, the web would come to a horrible, grinding halt and no one would be able to read your enlightening insights.
Hi Babe,
You suffering from caffeine withdrawal, or something?
:p
BHD
mambogani
7-15-03, 08:03 AM
Originally posted by galexia
the web would come to a horrible, grinding halt and no one would be able to read your enlightening insights.
oh yeah they would, cos this board (almost) never goes down!!
but the point was - how many other hosts do you see out there who advertise anything close to what Powweb do, for $7.77?? Are all the other hosts really missing a trick? Really?
Originally posted by Bad Hair Day
You suffering from caffeine withdrawal, or something?
no...i just thought powweb was suffering from galexia withdrawl.
Originally posted by mambogani
how many other hosts do you see out there who advertise anything close to what Powweb do, for $7.77?? Are all the other hosts really missing a trick? Really? yes they are.
now will you PLEASE do something about those Nigerian spammers?
Guardian_Light
7-15-03, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by stevel
Space is the server that was down for 2-3 days last September. PowWeb did give affected sites a six-month credit for that incident.
Where can we see that we have a six month credit added to our account (from Sept 2002)?
Originally posted by stevel
Space is the server that was down for 2-3 days last September. PowWeb did give affected sites a six-month credit for that incident.
That's not a blanket statement; I was down last September and got nuttin. Nadda.
Space is still not 100 percent this morning either. None of my scripts work. 24 hours after outtage ....
Guardian_Light
7-15-03, 09:24 AM
Why did some cutomers get credit and some not? Did we not complain enough?
actually pow could safely offer 60Gs of transfer ..its daily use that is really measured ..exceed that (appx 2Gs) and your site is history.. a gig of transfer probably cost pow under $1.25 ..and most powies barely use that a month .. leaving pow with $6.62 to payout admin cost ..times that by about 40,000 monthly users..
you may use tops.. but the other 39,997 dont..
as for other host offering similar pkgs ..theres lots of them ..but for my 7.77 im happy with their (my sites) appx 98% uptime.. even cnet goes down.. so go figure
heck just maintaining these forums are worth something isnt it? something you will find hard to get at other host ..i dont mean the reactionary complaining but i mean the techie stuff we do get..
ok ok so my math isnt xactly correct ..but its close..
^5 pow ..YES!! WE LOVE YOU MAN!!!
Bad Hair Day
7-15-03, 10:42 AM
Originally posted by galexia
no...i just thought powweb was suffering from galexia withdrawl.
OMG - Who is that masked woman?
:eek:
BHD
galexia, take some time off here recently???
Looks like space is back up for ya'll: http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23275
Originally posted by Guardian_Light
Where can we see that we have a six month credit added to our account (from Sept 2002)? It shows up on my package's billing tab. Six Month Free Hosting (Data Loss/Outage)
Thinking more about this, there was more than just being on space at the time, since I run two sites that were on space then, and only one got the credit - perhaps it was those who got moved to another server? I'm sure the old posts on this have been deleted from the forum...
Originally posted by stevel
It shows up on my package's billing tab. Six Month Free Hosting (Data Loss/Outage)
Thinking more about this, there was more than just being on space at the time, since I run two sites that were on space then, and only one got the credit - perhaps it was those who got moved to another server? I'm sure the old posts on this have been deleted from the forum...
I looked, and I don't have it. I will ask.
maplesoft
7-15-03, 02:14 PM
Space was good, Space was nice,
Served me well at a very good price.
But yesterday I think it died.
Revival attempts? I've cried and cried...
Please good admins, it's time to realize.
Time to move on and eulogize.
There must be others who can take it's place,
And bid fond farewell to our dead friend Space.
But if by chance by the time this is read
Space is ressurected from the computer dead,
Disregard my feeble poetic ode
And flush this post right down the commode.
Very funny. good post. :-)
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