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Anyone know what's going on with Speakeasy?

Their support line is overloaded, their web site is down, all queries
to the DNS zones they host for me just time out, etc...


-B

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:40:25 -0500, "joe.user@no.spam"
<joe.user@no.spam> wrote:

Anyone know what's going on with Speakeasy?

Their support line is overloaded, their web site is down, all queries
to the DNS zones they host for me just time out, etc...

They're back up now. Seems a switch went down and took with it access
to DNS, web hosting, shell access, AND took out Speakeasy's phone
system too!

Bear in mind how aggressively Speakeasy is trying to sell VOIP right
now: The good news is, they use what they sell. The bad news is,
they use what they sell!

Oh, the pain of being on the bleeding edge.

-B

joe.user@no.spam <joe.user@no.spam> writes:

Oh, the pain of being on the bleeding edge.

Being on the edge of anything has nothing to do with this.

Being a bunch of clueless bozos who among other things don't
know what a single point of failure can do has everything to
do with this.

Billy Y..
An EX-speakeasy customer

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:44:19 +0000 (UTC), abuse@MIX.COM wrote:

joe.user@no.spam <joe.user@no.spam> writes:

Oh, the pain of being on the bleeding edge.

Being on the edge of anything has nothing to do with this.

Being a bunch of clueless bozos who among other things don't
know what a single point of failure can do has everything to
do with this.

Billy Y..
An EX-speakeasy customer

What DO you mean?? After all, just because they let a single switch
knock out web services for an entire region and bring down their
entire phone system, just because they designed a backup MX
architecture that looped hopelessly and had to completely redesign it
(after spending weeks denying anything could be wrong), just because
they had to re-engineer it again because their first attempt just
dumped it on an already overloaded box, just because they backpedalled
on their Usenet news server service when they found out the true costs
of providing it, just because a database transfer to a new DNS tool
screwed up people's email, just because some customer database
"maintenance" screwed up people's dial-up account access, is no reason
to go calling them clueless bozos... ;-)

Then again, what's the best alternative for affordable biz-class SDSL
in NYC? Or even a good ADSL that allows servers, multiple static IPs,
etc.?

-B