Here’s A Hosting Provider You’ll Probably Want To Avoid

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1. GeekMommy
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 1:54 am

   That would work so much better if it had a muzak version of Girl From Ipanema playing over the service outage message, wouldn’t it?

2. Adamzski
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 1:58 am

   I own/run a hosting co and cant belive this.
   There should be offsite backups and either spare boxes or access to similar hardware to purchase and get back going within 6 hours max. More than 6 hours of downtime would finish me!!

3. Michael Arrington
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:01 am

   Adamzski - or, locks on the door?

4. Gaurav Gupta
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:01 am

   hahahahaha… this is funny!!

5. Michael Arrington
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 am

   Erick - did you add that update? dude, its 5 am in NY. Go to bed. You need to be up when the markets open to cover Yahoo.

6. Eli
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:14 am

   This happened to a company I used to work for. The servers got stolen as well as the a/c unit.

   It was a horrible day to come into work!

7. Mike Butcher
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:16 am

   No, I did (10am in London)

8. SearcH◆ EngineS WEB
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:31 am

   http://searchdatacenter.techta.....25,00.html

   There have been a number of cases in the past several years

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2.....om_server/

   We have not been in their shoes, so it is not always so easy to judge

9. Michael Arrington
   

   May 6th, 2008 at 2:33 am

   Search Engine Web - no, on the contrary, I’m finding it very easy to judge.

10. Patrick Altoft
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 2:41 am

    “404 server not found, believed stolen”

11. Matt Harwood
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    How to go out of business in one day: The Opal Telecom Story.

12. 9ice
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 3:37 am

    Why would someone steal those particular servers that contains Peter Gabriel’s sites and not some other. I smell a rat.

13. Raxit@MyKavita
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 3:51 am

    Interesting, funny and Real !
    love techcrunch because of the type of stuff they provide !

    Tnx for great advice, definitely not choose this hosting provider

    -raxit

14. Eric Go
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 4:21 am

    wah, when I started to host my blog, one of the key questions I asked to myself was whether to opt for local or foreign hosting providers.

    now, I know I was right to host my blog locally.

15. Patrick
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    Swiss IT Specialist Andreas Von Gunten writes in his blog (http://tinyurl.com/3vscdp) that the whole story could be a marketing activity from salesforce.com. Peter Gabriel will hold a keynote at the Dreamforce Europe event in Paris. (http://tinyurl.com/5prfog)

16. Matt
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 5:17 am

    “lol” you have to admit, that kinda is funny. Would have been a first?

    http://www.retailalley.blogspot.com

17. BloggingTom
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 5:18 am

    @Patrick: I cant believe that. First of all the theft has damaged Opal Telecom’s reputation and second, there is even a trouble ticket existing about that issue.

18. Patrick
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    @BloggingTom: Andreas Von Gunten will attend the event and is going to try to find out more about it from Peter Gabriel. So let’s see what happens.

19. Andrew
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 5:33 am

    Topi hai

20. micfo.com
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 6:21 am

    The PeterGabriel.com site is working now, I think he should consider to shift to other reliable host.

21. grumbs
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am

    In 2 of the 3 colocation sites/datacenters containing our servers, I could easily walk out with servers or other equipment not belonging to us. There are multiple reasons for this: the magnetic locks used on many cages have an emergency exit button reachable from the outside with a bent wire; there are no cameras in the “customer spaces”; the guards all know me, or there is an alternate non-guarded exit (e.g. loading docks); I could pack things up in boxes and the outside cameras would not show what I was removing. I worry about our servers every time I’m at one of those 2 sites. The 3rd site has keyed locks on all cages, internal cameras, and a universal sign-in sign-out policy with ID check even if you are a card-carrying fingerprint-scanning regular. I don’t worry so much about that one.

22. Chad
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 am

    Haha! That is quite funny. Though, sad at the same time.

23. Alexandar Tzanov
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 7:38 am

    I can say that this is not uncommon. Servers being stolen happens a lot, especially in data centers were employees are not properly compensated by the data center owners.

    There are a couple such data centers in the Chicago metropolitan area. And no, one of them is not FDC, at least not to my knowledge or experience.

24. Andy
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Did they use a sledgehammer?

    (I’ll get my coat.)

25. Ross
    

    May 6th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    This has happened to Cihost quite a few times I believe. This actually happens every few months some data center gets robbed.

26. splishsplash
    

    May 7th, 2008 at 1:26 am

    Anyone ever heard of an incident like this over here in Europe?

27. TPedler
    

    May 11th, 2008 at 4:20 am

    We’ve moved everything to Amazon Web Services. What’s most impressive is the continuity of speed no matter where you are in the world. We get the same application response from Australia, China and Canada. For the price, it’s awesome.