[SDBUG] San Diego Co-Location Horror Stories

[Matthew T. Lager]

They demod a "half cabinet" that my servers would be housed in, I showed 
up on install day and they wanted to put my servers in a microwaved 
sized box that was nothing like the cabinet they showed me. I backed 
out, they claimed I owed my contract, I sent them back a letter with a 
lawyers name on it and I never heard from those ******* bastards again. 
Screw those guys with a capital S.

Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:

> Oh yeah, I might add that I had a terrible experience with ADN aka AIS 
> aka CIS aka whatever they change their acronym to next.  My company 
> purchased dual T1 service with them and we had ridiculous downtime for 
> about 8 months before we started making plans to move to a new 
> company.  Despite the fact that they simply could not stabilize our 
> dual T1 installation to keep us up for any reasonable period of time, 
> and depite the fact that we had the president of their company on the 
> phone with our CEO apologizing profusely, they would not allow us to 
> cancel our dual T1 contract without paying for the remaining months of 
> service.  We continue to pay to this day the last few months of our 
> failed dual T1 contract while the dual T1 circuits lie dead on the 
> floor.  We gave them probably 100 extra chances and extra tries, we 
> believed them time and again when they swore they had the issue 
> resolved. On top of the issues we had with our circuits, there were 
> multiple multiple core router failures on their network, which their 
> president was repeatedly sending us apology emails for.  I'm sure I 
> could dig up about 10 apology emails for a span of like 3 months for 
> network outages.  I wouldn't tolerate that kind of downtime on my 
> cable modem, much less running our business from their service.
>
> Maybe you can accept that "they're only human."  But we're trying to 
> run a business here, not get all touchy feely about humanity.  I have 
> humans on the web trying to order our products, and I'd like to be 
> able to communicate with them.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew T. Lager" 
> <mlager at kopangroup.com>
> To: "San Diego's BSD Users Group" <sdbug at sdbug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [SDBUG] San Diego Co-Location Horror Stories
>
>
>> What company are you with? I just rent a half rack for hosting I do 
>> for my business... I had trials with ADNC, they were the worst 
>> company I have ever encountered. What a joke. I believe they went 
>> bankrupt.
>>
>> Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>>
>>> Hahahahaha, Joseph and I use Castle Access too.  They rock.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew T. Lager" 
>>> <mlager at kopangroup.com>
>>> To: "San Diego's BSD Users Group" <sdbug at sdbug.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:09 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [SDBUG] San Diego Co-Location Horror Stories
>>>
>>>
>>>> Castle Access, Castle Access, Castle Access. That's all I have to 
>>>> say. I have been with them for a few years and I have only had one 
>>>> time where there was some very unnoticable power issues. As a 
>>>> result of these hardly noticable power issues, my bill was half of 
>>>> what it normally was.
>>>>
>>>> They also run month to month, so now binding contracts.
>>>>
>>>> Best customer support you'll ever see. Very un-dramatized facility, 
>>>> you can really tell they concentrate on making sure they have what 
>>>> they need but not trying to glamorize it for the purpose of sale. 
>>>> They put their attention into the customer, not the glamor of 
>>>> running an almighty datacenter.
>>>>
>>>> Castle Access (www.castleaccess.com) comes highly recommened from 
>>>> me, and no, I don't work for them :)
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> Joseph A. Kitzman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A company I contract for is looking to take the plunge and move 
>>>>> their in house servers to a datacenter.  I'm no stranger to the 
>>>>> local datacenters, but I need to gather as much information on 
>>>>> them as possible.  I've got a nice list of positives for each, and 
>>>>> more technical information than any suit will have interest in.. 
>>>>> i'm just really curious to hear what kind of horror stories you 
>>>>> all may have from hosting here in San Diego.  Power outages? Water 
>>>>> leaks? Connectivity loss? Badge deactivation? Did their sales team 
>>>>> treat you like dirt? Is their closest employee in Los Angeles?  Go 
>>>>> back as far as possible if you can, time frame is of no concern to 
>>>>> me.
>>>>>  An example: The week in August of 03', where Level 3's A/C blew 
>>>>> hot air into a cabinet full of my SQL RAID arrays, and their out 
>>>>> of city NOC wouldn't acknowledge that anything was actually 
>>>>> wrong.  No apology or explaination even after we moved out.  Thanks!
>>>>>
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