RC Locations

Hi,

Well New York is actually cheaper than The Planet. After looking at the New York popularity (thanks to this thread) we will definitely keep that. Now as far as the planet keep in mind they have 6 different data centers throughout Dallas and Houston. Now, when we moved everything from chicago to the planet we ordered 100+ servers for our first initial order and they all went in the same H1 data center which is why that outage was so bad. In this case our servers would always be spread out throughout their 6 different facilities. With this in mind we can guarantee you improved reliability and support like you wouldn't believe.

[sinohosting]

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE NY! For me this is the really true alternative to Texas in terms of reliability and I don't think people want to put all their eggs in one basket.

[primitiv]

I have nothing against The Planet any more than any other datacentre, I just like aving a lot of options.

Yeah most problems with a datacentres (fire/whatever) are localised to that datacentre, some (hurricanes/acts of nature/God) are not and would be localised to a city or area. Yes these issues are very rare, but they do happen, and the reason I am with H9 is so that all my eggsare not in the same basket/city/region.

If one particular US location is causing major issues I have no issue with dropping one (not New York), just not four.

-Tim

[iowastudio]

I had a good majority of my sites hosted in the Texas Data Center and after working with multiple techs at Host Nine, Planet and even local ISP's, everything pointed to a DNS problem on the Planets network. I had to move all my sites to other locations which solved the problem. So my vote would not to move my problem back to the origination point. I'm sure they are great, fast, cheap yadda yadda ya, but I had everyone pointing fingers at each other when the problem was obviously within the Planet network. I'm also not a huge fan of having backups at the same data center as the hosted server. Maybe look at doing offline backups to remote locations weekly to solve this problem.

Cheers,
Chris

[Gman]

I agree with most others. One of the main selling points is hosting sites at multiple locations. Being in Michigan most of our sites are in IL, VA and TX now. When you do reboots or sites go down it effects just a portion of our customers.

Also, a number of these sites use Exchange servers to connect for mail and we would have to have them change stuff on their end after a migration.

We appreciate what you do but prefer you stay diversified and focus on keeping the servers stable, stable, stable.

Thanks for all you do!

[Checo]

Hi,

Last month I migrated several of my accounts to H9 because I needed hosting several of my sites with different C-Class IP's and much better if they were at multiple locations and instead of opening a lot of hosting accounts, I found the answer to my needs here.

So staying diversified would probably be the only way I would stay with H9. Otherwise, I would have to migrate all my accounts once again looking for the same thing, a reseller offering hosting with different C-Class IP's and servers at multiple locations.

So my vote is to stay diversified and NOT centralize all servers with a single provider/datacenter.

Thanks for taking your customer opinions into consideration!

Regards,

Checo

[not_me]

I use the eastern servers in addition to the UK as these are the closest to my location in Europe. I would not like to see my choice of servers move further away.

[arcticbit]

I have been a reseller now for about 1 year. First i want to say that the New-York data center is excellent. The server/network uptime is like 100%. The servers is responding very fast to request's, and the data transfer is fast and stable. (Even from Europe!).

I see that having the servers split over several data-centers is a good thing,
if one goes down, the other works. It' give lesser worry'ed customer's, when someting is down.

At the moment I have many domains NOT use'ing hostnine name servers, if
get new servers i must manually update the pointing ip adresses.

An old computer teacher once said: If it work's fine, don't touch it!

thank's for delivering very good services... ! Keep up the good work...

[kservik]

I also sit in Europe and Texas is not good for me as ping times are too high. New York is very good in that regard and I use London a lot too.

Washington might be good too, but Texas is not really an option. If you can leave Washington, New York and London - then I can survive.

Kim

[marketer]

My vote is to stay diversified and NOT centralize all servers with a single provider / datacenter, thats the reason why I sign up to h9 too.