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Exodus Files For Chapter 11 Protection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who's-protecting-your-online-data dept.

rit writes: "Albeit a bit expected, it is shocking to find that Exodus Communications has gone ahead and filed for bankruptcy. Exodus is one of the largest hosting facilities, and their major competitor, Above.net (owned by MetroMedia Fiber) is in pretty much the same boat ... circling the metaphorical drain of the dot-com world." Note that filing for protection from creditors while reorganizing is not the same as hanging up a big "closed" sign -- Exodus is still operating, and hopefully will be able to keep the LEDs turned on for a good long while (since Slashdot is hosted there).

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  1. Not exactly... by mindstrm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    TCP is designed to deal with loss, yes, but only loss due to congestion. When it encounters loss, it backs off. The problem is, if you get loss due to some other reason, like radio noise or a faulty unit, where congestion isn't the cause, tcp will just keep slowing down trying to fix the problem, when in fact, the best solution would be to just keep retrying without changing parameters.

    UDP, on the other hand.. just means they didn't want to rely on TCP's flow control. UDP does have error checking; there is a checksum in the IP header.
    It doesn't mean there is necessarily no error chekcing or retransmission.. it just means they did it their own way. OF course, I have no idea how the Everquest protocol actually works...

  2. Oh Come On by nihilogos · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd love to see slashdot hosted on a 56K link out of Rob's bedroom.

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    :wq