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Hosting Giants Teaming Against Small Businesses

Posted by Soulskill on from the capitalism-never-gets-old dept.

BlueToast writes "Hosting giants SoftLayer, ThePlanet, Hosting Services Inc., and UK2 Group are teaming up to wipe out small competitors like SimpleCDN. Though ThePlanet isn't directly involved in the slicing of SimpleCDN's throat, ThePlanet runs the sales chat scripts for SoftLayer (check your NoScript). As a loyal customer of SimpleCDN, I really do not appreciate the disruption of service to a company I have been with for over a year. SimpleCDN's president wrote, 'Absolutely no valid reason or warning was or has been given for this termination, and our best guess currently is that these organizations could not provide the services that we contracted and paid for, so instead they decided that terminating services would be the best solution for them.'"

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  1. After reading that story three times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I still have absolutely no frigging idea what it's about.

    1. Re:After reading that story three times by Sundo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you think little more broadly, you'll soon come to realize there are very few entities in this world that could be counted as "real providers" as you seem to mean it. Almost whatever you (as in person, company or otherwise), you're always depending on someone else to provide you the infrastructure to allow you to do it. Very few "real providers" provide the food for their employees, commuting infrastructure for getting to work, or - if you want something closer to average IT business - electricity.

      Practically all of us will always be at mercy of someone offering us the infrastructure to do what we are doing, and western societies (well, most societies) are built on such infrastructure deals. If we can't be reasonably sure we'll be getting the infrastructure service we have paid for and have reason to expect, this society will soon start looking lot different than it does at the moment. This being IT business is no excuse for the expectations suddenly be lot lower.

  2. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't use SimpleCDN because they're gone.
    I can't use Amazon's CDN because they're jerks to wikileaks.
    I can't use VPS.net's (UK2/100TB) CDN because they're jerks to SimpleCDN.
    I can't use anyone who runs Softlayer's CDN because they're in kahoots with UK2.
    I can't use anyone who runs Layer3 because they gave in to Comcast (netflix story from a while back) and will probably jack up my prices.
    I can't use Akamai because I don't have deep pockets.
    If Google comes up with a CDN I can't use them because they steal everyone's privacy.

    ...at this rate I'm hoping I don't really need a CDN.