[kwlug-disc] Fw: Looking for colo facility suggestions

[Chris Frey]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:16:34AM -0500, Chris Frey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:06:31AM -0500, Chris Frey wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:05:52PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> > > Some additional search also found:
> > > * https://cloudatcost.com/
> > 
> > They are going through growing pains, but still, a nice little budding
> > cloud provider as far as I can tell.
> 
> I should say I would not recommend them for sensitive data
> storage yet, just from the few quirks I've seen.  But for open source
> development projects, possibly mirroring of large open source data (I'm
> still working on that), releases of signed software, etc, they look
> like a good option.

After a few days of experience, I need to update my post so I don't
influence other people down this path.  My first impressions were right
that they are unreliable.  And other folks have not had good experience
either, even since 2014.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudAtCost/comments/68ryvd/cloud_at_cost_review/
https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/2lm089/cloud_at_cost_scam/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudAtCost/comments/3yagae/review_of_cloud_at_cost/
https://www.bbb.org/ca/on/kitchener/profile/internet-service/cloud-at-cost-0107-1307264/customer-reviews#0 (lol)
https://www.bbb.org/ca/on/kitchener/profile/internet-service/cloud-at-cost-0107-1307264/overview-of-bbb-ratings
https://manamalkav.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/an-honest-cloudatcost-review/
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159852/cloudatcost

Pretty much all bad.

- Chris