Fasthosts?

theMAD2 · 25 Jun 2006 at 23:04

Its terrible that a company of that size has such a lack of redundancy.

So who is this down to? I always rated Fasthosts.

Beansprout · 25 Jun 2006 at 23:07

theMAD2 said:
So who is this down to? I always rated Fasthosts.

Fasthosts, because they should have more than one connectivity provider. There's no excuse. Even small companies/providers have more than one provider these days.

This outage has also taken down their DNS - in other words, thousands of domains just disappeared from the net and probably lots of e-mail will be lost (mailservers will hold e-mail in their queue unless they think the domain doesn't exist.)

zetec452 · 25 Jun 2006 at 23:22

Yep, they should have multiple fibre going out of different sides of the building, on an array of transit providers and most definately a POP in London or some where else to at least keep there DNS, mail and Peering up.

Al Vallario · 26 Jun 2006 at 18:04

So lets go over this again... they have a "multi-million pound" climate control system, top of the range fire suppression systems and backup generators... and only one connectivity providor? Surely not? :eek:

zetec452 · 26 Jun 2006 at 21:16

They probably to have more than one provider. But I would bet my left nad its all going through one fibre pipe.

theMAD2 · 27 Jun 2006 at 08:33

I think it's quite bad that there isn't any information over what happend on their site. The whole situation seems badly managed.

Beansprout · 27 Jun 2006 at 09:05

Hehe, Netcraft confirm

theMAD2 · 27 Jun 2006 at 09:07

The fiber cut also affected cable TV service to about 100,000 UK subscribers who lost their signal just prior to the start of Sunday's World Cup soccer game, in which England defeated Ecuador 1-0.

Beansprout · 27 Jun 2006 at 10:20

theMAD2 said:

That's just sensationalism though because last I checked the games were on terrestrial, at least that's how I watched them....so all the cut means is no HD/interactive, which isn't so bad (unless you're one of the far fewer people who carea bout that stuff of course.)

Mr_L · 27 Jun 2006 at 11:01

Ignore me.

theMAD2 · 27 Jun 2006 at 11:02

Beansprout said:
That's just sensationalism though because last I checked the games were on terrestrial, at least that's how I watched them....so all the cut means is no HD/interactive, which isn't so bad (unless you're one of the far fewer people who carea bout that stuff of course.)

Yeah, but if you don't have a normal arial (like me) it might be a :confused:

situation. I'm sure you wouldn't find it hard to find somewhere to watch it though...but still!

Beansprout · 27 Jun 2006 at 11:12

theMAD2 said:
Yeah, but if you don't have a normal arial (like me) it might be a situation. I'm sure you wouldn't find it hard to find somewhere to watch it though...but still!

Heh yeah, our next door neighbours watched it on the live BBC stream....I'm waiting for them to offer a stream over 256k though, maybe in the next year or so....