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Providers Outage Section on LowEndTalk? Yay or Nay?
Folks,
Someone suggested to me today that LowEndTalk should have the benefit of a dedicated section where users can post about outages.
That would create the benefit of:
- Easy to find and organize new content
- Creates a semi log/history of sorts of outages - for which our community can use as a guide to establish the reliability of providers
Open to ideas and suggestions...
Should LowEndTalk have a "Providers Outages" Section?
- Should LowEndTalk have a "Providers Outages" Section?103 votes
- Yes83.50%
- No15.53%
- Maybe something else, I'll comment with the idea  0.97%
Comments
Yay.
Sounds good. Wasn't there one already, at least at some point in time?
i don't see why not
Definitely. And like "Best provider" tags, let's have something similiar for the providers with frequent outage
Sounds very useful. How will it be updated?
By members most likely, right? Similar to WHT I guess.
Provider Outage aka PMS category.
You can make a thread if:
Yes
Uncomfortable question:
Location Z of provider R has been offline for 6 hours.
3000 servers are offline.
A user writes about it.
The provider is the biggest advertiser that financially support LET, with $5000/month spending.
They contact LET management asking to delete the outage thread, or they'll pull the advertising deal.
What's the outcome?
This happens in many industries.
Newspapers do not expose negative stories of their biggest advertisers.
But how it would be different from https://www.lowendtalk.com/categories/outages?
Also shouldn't this be in Meta?
Jon's new here :-) I've moved it.
every thread in such Outages Section should have poll (STILL WORKS FOR ME/I AM AFFECTED TOO) to differentiate if it is isolated case or wide spread (like 3000 customers)
Haha, whoops, wow. My error.
I would like to see @jbiloh comments on this, but a good way to prevent such things from happening would be to ensure that no individual host (as defined by their parent companies) can spend more than some threshold value on advertising, for example, 400% of the median spend of all advertisers on LET.
This leads to two advantages:
I voted, "No", just because if it's a provider with enough customers chances are there may be active discussion and the thread would be visible regardless, whether it was posted in Off Topic or General or wherever. Less clutter on the sidebar and the information is getting shared or posted anyway.
But I see I'm very out numbered so what do I know, ha!
I voted yes, but come to think of it, maybe not.
Reason is that, from my perspective:
I'm sure LET will not support anything against the "Purple Spam Guy"
Anyway I vote gor no.
Otherwise it will make LET a de facto support website for those providers.
Scam providers will protest it. Honest providers will embrace it.
Simple scam physics.
How is this different from the current "Outages" section?
Already mentioned but went unanswered:
Wee need a special seduction in memory of @cociu where all storage offers will be posted
You should add providers scam section too
It's not really. I overlooked that section because it doesn't have a ton of of activity. Still open for suggestions on how we can enhance the usability and function of such a section.
I voted No. It's not LET's duty to monitor providers. This is a community, not uptime monitor, nor technical support for providers. This would sound like we encourage people complaining here about providers.
In the name of traffic and dollars, stop this blasphemy!
Serverbear back in the days had public uptime for providers. It wasn't popular as there was to many false positives.
Yes, for providers to discuss their scamming strategy
exactly
No.
Every dumb*ss will go there and whine as soon as their precious $1 VPS gets nullrouted, or whenever they misconfigured their network interface.