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Damn, must I register lowendtalk.ca ?
If you combine @teamacc WP version and theme data with where each site is hosted 8 at Linode all the same theme 7 of them same theme and wp version.
LEB has been hacked.
If you check the Phishtank report at https://www.phishtank.com/phish_detail.php?phish_id=5880251 you will understand why I say that
... I don't think I'd trust a host that doesn't even use their own services to host their site. If they can't even trust themselves, why should anyone else trust them?
This smells a lot like a host getting a powerful server on a fast network for their own site (so people think that their services are fast), and then their actual products are on a poor oversold overloaded network.
Why do so many of them use Linode?
Plot-twist.
ColoCrossing is in reality owned by Linode.
I think it's common practice to not put all your eggs in one basket should shit hit the fan. If your infra network is down, you'll want access to your site and status pages so you can alert your clients. Not all hosts do this, but it is a decent way to avoid a SPOF taking down everything.
Edit: additionally, not all hosts have DDoS protected setups. Hosting providers naturally attract a lot of DoS attacks. From what I've seen, ColoCrossing doesn't have the largest capacity for handling DDoS attacks (I think Chicago has decent protection, but Buffalo and elsewhere is minimal)
Sure... Status page and DNS on a separate network is understandable. Maybe a fallback site in case their main one goes down, maybe using Cloudflare for DDoS protection + quicker failover (as you'd avoid needing to wait for DNS propagation if you just change the IP at Cloudflare's end). A backup site in a second data center (for hosts that have multiple DCs) makes sense.
But their entire website on another provider's network? I don't see that a lot. buyvm.net is in a BuyVM IP range, linode.com is in a Linode IP range.
They probably just want clean IP's to host their homepages. ColoCrossing has very few of those left.
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Can't wait!
I think @UltraVPS also uses Quadranet for LA. @launchvps used to have some LA stock also I think based on Quadranet.
I believe @UltraVPS does and they're pretty good.
Thanks for the mention. Yes, we use Quadranet in LA.
Quadranet is CC afaik.
I equate them to about the same even if they aren't directly owned by CC.
For all intents and purposes it's safe to put QN and CC in the same basket, even if there is never an admission that they are the same company.
It's just like by now everyone know wootalphanfp are the same guy.
Could be. But if I were a host I would host my infra at a place other than my own so that any downtime/mess up doesn't take down the main website/status page. Agree that it reflects poorly tho.
I won't host our own website on a third party infrastructure (because if we don't trust our own network for our website how can we expect our clients to trust us) but we do understand like any other network even our own network can go down.
So what we do is:
1) Use DNS of our registrar as name servers for our domain
2) We use GSuite for emails
3) We use our own infrastructure for our website, billing, blog etc... It is on same network as our VPS and web hosting servers
We use DNS from third party because it's not worth it to invest a lot of time in managing redundant DNS Servers just for our own website and if in case if anything goes wrong with our network our dns will also go down, if our DNS is up we can at least setup a temporary page elsewhere to keep our clients updated about what's going on.
Same reason for hosting our mail server with GSuite
Agreed. We used to run our site on a 3rd party host, not because we didn't trust our own network/infra, but just to make sure we were reachable and able to make announcements in the even we DID have a problem.
This was years ago now, but it turned out to be a very bad idea. The host we used (which will remain un-named) was extremely unreliable and our site had numerous and relatively long lasting downtime. It also looked bad to our clients who were checking our network and found we were on a different network. And finally, it confused some people thinking that our services were located elsewhere from what we advertise.
Ultimately we now run our own site on the same network as our clients, but with a bit of extra redundancy for our main server in particular.
Yep, that's why I asked for a good plan from JJ @alpharacks through their low price guarantee yesterday.
WE say VERY stable, NOT "super" stable when we talk in English. STOP corrupting our language.
Good luck with that! Have you had a conversation with a kid that didn't use the word "like" non stop?
Good like with your kid.
Okay, sorry
I believe once upon a time (going back many many many years) they used to, mostly on their forums as customers used to confirm them.
Oh yeah? Your dad and me are the same too!
No, his spare chromosome doesn't match yours.
Did you just tell him you fucked his mom?
That would explain...
EDIT2:
Hi, Dad.
Some of us English folk even say "strong and stable".
dustin is donating some spoon purchase money in other thread , you can request him directly now