RE: FN-FORUM Hosting options (was: help me)

date posted 26th January 2001 11:49

> -----Original Message-----
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> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of David Nye
> Sent: 26 January 2001 11:06
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> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Hosting options (was: help me)
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> > http://www.dsvr.co.uk/
>
> This seems an opportune topic on which to let you all know that Netwhisle
> has just reported the very first failure of the site I have
> hosted at DVSR.
> During the same 6 week period about 90 failures were reported for my sites
> hosted elsewhere. To be fair, these are mainly either budget or
> ASP servers,
> but then my DVSR account is free at present. (ASP servers are notoriously


Free server - 1 outage
Budget servers - approx. 90 outages


> unstable if they are used for site development.)

That's the problem with proprietary OSs, three cheers for Linux!!
It makes my mind boggle when I consider the sort of reliability clustered
Linux servers would offer! And you wouldn't end up paying tens of thousands
of quid in license fees either.

> Needless to say I am looking into moving more sites to DVSR.

Can I just point out that David is NOT employed by DSVR (nice one David,
cheque's in the post)!
:-)

Cheers,

Alex Rose.