CloudatCost Issues
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
@thecreativeone91 ChargeBack
What right do you have for a chargeback? What fraud or theft occurred? Chargebacks are heavily abused.
Rant time
I think C@C has some good people that try to do their best, but I have to agree with Aaron so far their product has been absolutely horrible. You buy a server with an expectation of 99.9% uptime, and I've had issues with mine more than 50% of the time. I got mine for free, but I would be pissed if I paid upfront for it.
The bottom line is they promise him an availability and they failed to deliver. Their policy also states a they have a 30 day refund policy so he is within his rights. I am actually somewhat surprised with a few people in this community that are supporting such a poor product. I have had lowend VPS boxes from multiple sources and this is by far the absolute worst. You can google "CloudatCost reviews" and find nothing but bad stuff about them.
In IT, we don't accept things like downtime from other companies. Why are we making exceptions for Cloud at Cost? Honestly, there are much better options out there and everyone here knows it. We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Panel is back.
They are in the process up upgrading to Cisco Nexus 7K routers so that could explain the brief outages.
Ah, that could do it.
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@IRJ said:
I think C@C has some good people that try to do their best, but I have to agree with Aaron so far their product has been absolutely horrible. You buy a server with an expectation of 99.9% uptime,....
How much outage have you had? I've seen a bit, but 99.9% uptime is an average of 8.76 hours a year. They had one outage of some length, caused by an upstream ISP that also took out huge swaths of the country. Nothing that Amazon and Rackspace haven't seen. And way less than we've seen from normal datacenters.
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@IRJ said:
The bottom line is they promise him an availability and they failed to deliver. Their policy also states a they have a 30 day refund policy so he is within his rights.
If they have a 30 day refund, then yes, he should go through that channel.
But they didn't promise uptime and from what I saw, they did deliver, meeting their SLA requirements. What do you feel was promised and not delivered?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I think C@C has some good people that try to do their best, but I have to agree with Aaron so far their product has been absolutely horrible. You buy a server with an expectation of 99.9% uptime,....
How much outage have you had? I've seen a bit, but 99.9% uptime is an average of 8.76 hours a year. They had one outage of some length, caused by an upstream ISP that also took out huge swaths of the country. Nothing that Amazon and Rackspace haven't seen. And way less than we've seen from normal datacenters.
I have had all sorts of issues with my VPS. Everytime I mess with it there is some type of issue. I honestly just gave up on it.
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@IRJ said:
I am actually somewhat surprised with a few people in this community that are supporting such a poor product.
Who has supported them? I've not seen that at all yet. I've seen lots of people trying them out. Who has been supporting them?
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@scottalanmiller said:
How much outage have you had? I've seen a bit, but 99.9% uptime is an average of 8.76 hours a year. They had one outage of some length, caused by an upstream ISP that also took out huge swaths of the country. Nothing that Amazon and Rackspace haven't seen. And way less than we've seen from normal datacenters.
Why didn't they have more then one provider? Keep in mind Amazon and Rackspace were both up while C@C was not.
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@IRJ said:
The bottom line is they promise him an availability and they failed to deliver. Their policy also states a they have a 30 day refund policy so he is within his rights
What policy states that? There terms are no refunds. http://www.cloudatcost.com/terms.php The only credits are for downtime exceeding 24hrs which you have 30 days to claim. and it specifically even says credit not refund.
8.3 All fees paid are non-refundable.
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@IRJ said:
In IT, we don't accept things like downtime from other companies.
Down time is inevitable no matter the product or service. You just have to properly plan for it (Not have all your eggs in one basket).
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@IRJ said:
In IT, we don't accept things like downtime from other companies.
That's an SMB mentality and a foolish one, IMHO. Amazon is the best in the business, period, and they have outages. Avoiding outages requires IT, not the vendor, to make it happen. You need geographic and vendor failover. Amazon tells you this right up front. IT is the biggest player there. No enterprise would ever suggest that they don't accept downtime. I see this constantly in the SMB, this obsession with uptime at all costs. It just doesn't fit with the SMB business models.
SMBs want cheap, then they want uptime promises that no company can deliver on, none. It makes no sense.
Now if there is an SLA for a certain uptime and it isn't met, there are SLA terms for that. There is no reason to get upset unless the SLA you agreed to was not met. We looked at the SLA during their outage and the terms were met.
So why are you upset?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I am actually somewhat surprised with a few people in this community that are supporting such a poor product.
Who has supported them? I've not seen that at all yet. I've seen lots of people trying them out. Who has been supporting them?
I am just surprised all the issues (pretty much daily) and bad press from external sources has been ignored.
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@IRJ said:
We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
Actually with the one-time fee product it is "free" we didn't pay for the service it is consider a one time setup fee by them.
Part of it is exceptions if you are going with cloud at cost you shouldn't be expecting to solely run a production environment off there. I have my personal site (no big deal for down time) Owncloud and a fee other non-critical systems there.
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@IRJ said:
Honestly, there are much better options out there and everyone here knows it. We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
Honestly, this rant seems crazy to me. CloudatCost is a fraction of the cost of anything else we use. A tiny fraction. And their SLA is much smaller too, only 99.9%. And the speed isn't as good. It's working great for us building out our lab systems, it is saving us a fortune. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
Name anyone offering VMs at this price that is delivering a better service. If not, how do you define other products as "better". Amazon, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr... they all cost more. So they aren't comparable services.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Honestly, there are much better options out there and everyone here knows it. We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
Honestly, this rant seems crazy to me. CloudatCost is a fraction of the cost of anything else we use. A tiny fraction. And their SLA is much smaller too, only 99.9%. And the speed isn't as good. It's working great for us building out our lab systems, it is saving us a fortune. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
Name anyone offering VMs at this price that is delivering a better service. If not, how do you define other products as "better". Amazon, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr... they all cost more. So they aren't comparable services.
There are plenty delivering a better solution at a lower price
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@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Honestly, there are much better options out there and everyone here knows it. We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
Honestly, this rant seems crazy to me. CloudatCost is a fraction of the cost of anything else we use. A tiny fraction. And their SLA is much smaller too, only 99.9%. And the speed isn't as good. It's working great for us building out our lab systems, it is saving us a fortune. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
Name anyone offering VMs at this price that is delivering a better service. If not, how do you define other products as "better". Amazon, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr... they all cost more. So they aren't comparable services.
There are plenty delivering a better solution at a lower price
That's a reoccurring cost for all of them. Not sure how that could be a "lower price".
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Nobody does that lifetime deal they do, but from everything I've experienced it isnt worth the effort.
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@IRJ said:
Nobody does that lifetime deal they do, but from everything I've experienced it isnt worth the effort.
What where you trying to use if for? For testing and playing with stuff it works great.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Honestly, there are much better options out there and everyone here knows it. We wouldn't even tolerate this kind of downtime for free products let alone paid products.
Honestly, this rant seems crazy to me. CloudatCost is a fraction of the cost of anything else we use. A tiny fraction. And their SLA is much smaller too, only 99.9%. And the speed isn't as good. It's working great for us building out our lab systems, it is saving us a fortune. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
Name anyone offering VMs at this price that is delivering a better service. If not, how do you define other products as "better". Amazon, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr... they all cost more. So they aren't comparable services.
There are plenty delivering a better solution at a lower price
That's a reoccurring cost for all of them. Not sure how that could be a "lower price".
C@C isn't going to be around for very long if their product remains this unstable. People want stability even on non production systems. You can get webhosting that is much more reliable for $2 a month ($24 a year).
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NTG bought three more servers today, Dev2. Nothing crazy. But with the community discount the cost of three servers on CloudatCost, one time price, is the cost of two months service of similar machines from Rackspace. Actually just a tiny bit less than two months.
Are people seriously comparing the two? One is so much cheaper than the other. They are not competitors. And one is cloud and one is VPS. Not that that matters much, but it is a different audience that they are going for.
But can you really just say that Rackspace is a "better" service? No. It's a different service, for different needs. CloudatCost as, thus far, been better for our lab needs than Rackspace. Rackspace is better for hosting MangoLassi. It's not better or worse as they aren't comparable. It's two different products with very different features and prices.
We work in IT, we know that better isn't clear cut. And no service can ever be evaluated in a price vacuum. The price of any service is always a significant factor.
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@IRJ said:
C@C isn't going to be around for very long if their product remains this unstable. People want stability even on non production systems. You can get webhosting that is much more reliable for $2 a month ($24 a year).
C@C isn't really for web hosting if you are choosing them just for a web host. You are choosing the wrong solution.
