Archive for March, 2009

Gogrid – service going down hill – 10000% uptime guaranteed – false advertising

There was a time I recommended gogrid to many people – having moved away from uk2.net which was just about as dreadful as it gets as far as maintaining a service goes.

Twice this week now go-grid (www.gogrid.com) have had network problems. They have a 10000% guaranteed uptime yet in about 7 months I’ve had in access of 7 hours outage and yet to receive any form of reimbursement.

Basically, if you have mission critical appliances then you can’t rely on go-grid either.

The RFO’s from the last outage tells us the blame is due to DOS against another of their servers and they said it would be fixed. The truth is, they fixed nothing and AGAIN my server can’t be accessed.

I supposed the next step is to move business to Amazon EC2.. More to do…
13   183 ms   178 ms   179 ms  ae-92-92.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.221]

14   180 ms   180 ms   179 ms  ae-1-6.bar2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.69.140.1
3]
15   180 ms   180 ms   219 ms  ae-4-4.car2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.69.133.1
7]
16   180 ms   179 ms   180 ms  SERVEPATH.car2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.53.13
.18]
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race complete.

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