Comments on: Aros.net’s (Aros net, arosnet) problems

By: Brett Van Vliet

Brett Van Vliet — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:21:11 +0000

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By: Mel Anderson

Mel Anderson — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:04:36 +0000

Aros has promised for 4 months to have news back up. Last week their tech told me to use google news because “they don’t charge”. My response was, I’ve been paying for it and havn’t gotten it. To which he replied, “Oh…we don’t bill for news, so it’s a freebee. So you havn’t paid for it.”

No, I don’t think they’re up today.

Makes you wonder how 2 highschool kids can build and run an ISP but these folks can’t seem to get a phone line up. Hmm….

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:22:31 +0000

FYI, looks like Arosnet’s site is back up – http://www.aros.net/.

By: Kevin Delaney

Kevin Delaney — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:41:10 +0000

Big companies have the resources to check out a facility. They know what they are paying for.

When you are a small company, you only have the feel of the web site and the word of others. Anyone playing the small host game needs to have a back up of their site on hand and a plan to run to the next budget host when things turn south.

By: Jeremy Votaw

Jeremy Votaw — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:53:36 +0000

Isn’t that funny? I was always amused about how passionate people got about dollars when corporations are more lenient. It’s totally counter intuitive, as is a lot of business.

I think you would be shocked to find out how many $10 hosting operations are based inside Consonus. It made me actually consider using those hosts because I knew they were in that data center… never actually did though. Hmmm.

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:37:13 +0000

You touched on what I think is the primary difference between Aros.net and Consonus – Aros.net has small customers, Consonus has high-end customers. I think the high-end customers are less fickle and more apt to look beyond the superficialities, whereas your everyday person paying $10/month for web hosting is less likely to be forgiving.

By: Jeremy Votaw

Jeremy Votaw — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:32:55 +0000

I don’t know if you are familiar with this, but Consonus had an implosion at their data center in West Jordan a few years ago. It was a Halon catastrophe. The entire center – was a wreck. What happened immediately after came as a shock to them. Orders for space were coming in at unprecedented levels when they announced they would rebuild. I don’t believe I am at discretion to say who uses this operation – But I know that 3 of the worlds largest companies have space inside this data center now.

I have found that people would rather use a data center with a mistake or two under their belts. They have a far less likely chance of this mistake ever happening again. Now, if they had 5 or 6 mistakes under their belts – that’s a track record. I was always leery of salesman telling me they had a 100% service history. I immediately thought, “So you’re due huh?”

I enjoyed watching Letterman last night with David on. He said something that probably shocked a lot of people. Nobody would be fired for this calamity. It again follows the principle – that people that have gone through the experience are less likely to repeat it.

In the case of Aros – I believe you may be right. I never saw them as a high caliber provider in the first place, which will hurt them. But then again – Consonus wasn’t a big player when the implosion happened either.