February 25, 2000

12:54 PM

Important News Bulletin: The HighFive, Projectcool, and A List Apart networks are down due to some major flubs on the part of their bandwidth provider. Here's Glenn Davis' letter about it.
posted by mathowie (4 comments total)

I was wondering what happened. See, DSL isn't what it is cracked up to be. I've had more then one network admin/guru tell me that xDSL is in for problems and growing pains. Covad and Northpoint are the two providers, so it makes sense that they will eat a lot of heat.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 1:43 PM on February 25, 2000

This outage makes a strong argument for colocation. Everyone knows about the pricey colocation providers (Above.net, Exodus, etc.), but there are some cost effective ones too, like Explosive Networking.
posted by rafeco at 1:59 PM on February 25, 2000

Holy cow Rafe, that place is pretty darn cheap. I'm about to go in on a colocation deal that this place, and will be housing all my sites, including this one, there in the next month or so.
posted by mathowie at 2:05 PM on February 25, 2000

The HighFive, Projectcool, and A List Apart networks are back online. The detail can be found here in this letter from Glenn
posted by heather at 1:42 PM on February 26, 2000