Possible home of N3V servers in the USA??

[aardvark1]

NOTE: This is not a complaint post.

Various traces and confirmation by Windwalkr and Zec that the DLS and Forum servers are located (and hosted) in the USA.

The traces point to a location in Houston, TX. The Planet is the name and they are part of SoftLayer Technology. >>>> http://www.softlayer.com/

The link below gives a view on the facility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTREG_UQJQ&NR=1

While many were upset about the Forums being off line for a day or 2, the facility shown in the link above is impressive. Apparently whatever caused the Forums to be off must have been very serious.

Thankfully, no data was lost, not like the crash in 2006.

Others have posted in another thread, suggesting that N3V move to a different site, but that site seems small compared to what is shown here. It would appear that N3V has made the correct decision to use this company.

Regards,

 

[mrscsi]

Various traces and confirmation by Windwalkr and Zec that the DLS and Forum servers are located (and hosted) in the USA.

The traces point to a location in Houston, TX. The Planet is the name and they are part of SoftLayer Technology. >>>> http://www.softlayer.com/

The link below gives a view on the facility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTREG_UQJQ&NR=1

While many were upset about the Forums being off line for a day or 2, the facility shown in the link above is impressive. Apparently whatever caused the Forums to be off must have been very serious.

Thankfully, no data was lost, not like the crash in 2006.

Others have posted in another thread, suggesting that N3V move to a different site, but that site seems small compared to what is shown here. It would appear that N3V has made the correct decision to use this company.

Regards,

Well if you look at most of the backbone maps throughout the United States just about every one of them terminates in or passes through Houston.

http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm

 

[aardvark1]

Well if you look at most of the backbone maps throughout the United States just about every one of them terminates in or passes through Houston.

http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm

So, am I wrong?

You may want to read this>>> http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showpost.php?p=796338&postcount=18

Regards,

 

[bendorsey]

Has it ever occured to anyone that Auran, like all computerized companies, must do a certain amount of weekly, monthly, etc housekeeping chores? Incremental backups, cleaning out this-n-that, etc. Perhaps during these normal tasks they found something that needed more serious attention. Not taking care of it immediately only makes whatever it was potentially worse so personally I have no problems with it being inaccesible from time to time. To the best of my recollection its never been much more then about 24 hours. To be blunt, I can live with that. The alternative (no forums) is immeasurably worse.

For those of you who will immediately label me as an Auran (N3V or whoever they are now) suck-up - NO!!! I have issues and differences with them but ya'll need to give them the benefit of the doubt now and then rather then instantely jumping off the deep end.

Ben

 

[aardvark1]

I agree with you 100%.

Hope you do not think I am complaining, just trying to explain the facts of global internet hosting.

Regards,
Ron

 

[Thad09]

I second you Ben. Its better to clean the little dust off reguraly then trying to remove the soil that has settled over time.

 

[Euphod]

Houston= fire ants. No dust.

 

[ftldave]

Has it ever occured to anyone that Auran, like all computerized companies, must do a certain amount of weekly, monthly, etc housekeeping chores?

True, but, when that time comes, a professional systems manager announces it in advance to the users and gives fair warning. It's just common courtesy in the IT world to do that, and it helps people to not waste a lot of time, effort, and concern. I think the public statements from N3V explained that the weekend outage was "serious trouble" and not routine maintenance.