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  1. Re:Apple down, Microsoft up by rf600r · · Score: 1 · on Akamai Having Problems?

    Microsoft is not stupid enough to cache everything with Akamai. They also hand Digital Isla..I mean Exod...I mean Cable and Wi...I mean Savvis a lot of traffic. Or so I'm told.

  2. Re:Perhaps I'm missing something but... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Informative · on Slashdot is Moving
    Well, Exodus is a bankrupt colocation company. At least last I checked they were bankrupt. They apparently were acquired (at least their assets and such were acquired) by Cable and Wireless back in February.
    I had a friend whose company was bought by Exodus. Luckily he managed to sell some of his Exodus stock before they fell into the shitter.


    Apparently some of their colo facilities must still be operated by Cable and Wireless - hope they aren't as empty as they were a year ago. I had some friends who went into an Exodus colo and said it looked like a ghost town at the time.

  3. Old News? by Aztech · · Score: 2 · on Bandwidth Speculation's Legacy: Dark Fiber

    This was an NYTimes article published last week.

    Offers some insight... only 5% of fibre is in use, and it costs more to light fibre than lay them.

    On top of all these problems all the farmers with railway tracks going through their land are suing because the fibre layed alongside the rails was unauthorised because the leases didn't include surface rights.

    Compensation for the farmers has been cash and some of the fibre strands... so expect some new ISP's run by hillbillies, there's already a few about.

  4. Depends on your wants and needs... by Hackboy · · Score: 3 · on Servers - To Colocate Or Not To Colocate?

    It really depends on your requirements. How much downtime can you stand? How much traffic are you going to get and how fast will it grow? Is it cost effective for you to deal with the infrastructure issues yourself or should you let the coloc people worry about it?

    Bandwidth, power and cooling are going to be your main issues. Let's talk bandwidth first. How fast is your traffic going to grow? Major colocs like Exodus have plenty of spare bandwidth on hand to sell you. Telcos can take weeks to run a new line. If you do it yourself you have to really keep on top of your line utilization or you can find yourself way behind the curve and it's a bitch to try and catch back up.

    As far a cooling goes, you're probably going to be fine unless you have to add a ton of servers. But this is one thing that's bitten me in the past. We outgrew our cooling capacity in just a few months and we paid the price for months until we got another unit installed.

    And let's not forget the power issue. How much downtime can you afford? A good coloc is going to have a generator as well as a good UPS system. Can you stand your site being down 4 hours because of a blackout?

    The other benefits of a good coloc is their experience and full time staffing. I've very rarely seen the good ones have anything but minor network outages (backhoes not withstanding. :) Their NOCs often catch problems long before you hear anything from your users.

    The major downside to a coloc is the expense. The good ones cost a ton of money. The only way to cut down the expense is to make sure you go rackmount and use the minium Us you need to do the job. They'll also hit you up for bandwidth costs, but that's gonna directly relate to your traffic so it's less of an issue.

    So it all pretty much boils down to balancing downtime and headaches vs. costs. And that's math only you can do.

  5. Don't like this? Report them by Tairan · · Score: 2 · on Quova Inc. Completes Trace of 4 billion IP Addresses
    UUnet and Exodus. Quova gets its servers hosted at Exodus, and runs UUnet lines. Both companies are hostile to port scanning, and consider it wrong. Exodus's contract says they cannot "engage in any activities or actions that would violate the personal privacy rights of others, including, but not limited to, collecting and distributing information about Internet users without their permission. (here)

    I've opened a case number with UU.net. Send them your logs of being scanned! I'm sure UU.net will not be pleased with someone tying up their network with pings, (Is Quova the biggest script kiddie ever?) let alone making money from it. If you have logs showing Quova tapping at your doorway, send them to security@uu.net and we can take care of these people.

    Stop wasting bandwidth. It's precious.

  6. Not mad: The US is where it's @ by Threnody · · Score: 1 · on How Dependent Is The Internet On The U.S.?
    A couple of things that would be shut down if all US nodes were bleeped off the map. . .
    • First, Exodus Communications would go down. The number of sites that are hosted by Exodus is astounding
    • Most key news sites: C|Net, ZDNet, Slashdot, CMP, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, et al. would most likely be kaput
    • All US Universities would be shut down: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, just to name the best.
    • You couldn't get quotes from the Nasdaq or the NYSE; and E*Trade, Ameritrade, and other trading companies would not exist
    • Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and other popular free e-mail services would not work
    • You couldn't send e-mail to any US business location


    In essence, all of the services that the Internet provides would be kaput. All of the Information that seems so ubiquitous would be gone. And the world would, indeed, stand still for the day.

    The Internet would probably still work, but the utility would be marginal.

    I'm sure that you can name many other services, which would be inaccessible should the US be removed from the map. The following day, the stock market would crash and the tech world would probably launch an all-out attack on whoever made the decision. Not a pretty situation.