How is our bandwidth billed? Sure thing. Our bandwidth is basically a pay-as-you-go because we just buy ColoCrossing's standard 10TB per server and we pay all the overages they bill us whenever they decide to bill us. This overcomitting is perfectly fine because they allow us to overcommit as long as we pay the overages, and we're perfectly fine with doing so.^--- you are both a good sport and simultaneously nuts.
I give you credit.
Just so I am clear here, how is your bandwidth billed? Ahh... nevermind, that's privileged. No way you will say about that.
I've said this many times already; we're affilitated with Hudson Valley Host in the sense that we're reselling their dedicated servers and they are our primary supplier for our VPS nodes.So hold on.
Are you with CC or with HVH?
And why would you be selling to VPS providers? Who wants to be a customer of a reseller of a reseller?
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That's why the majority of our staff is located in the US. I've said this many times before.http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1336878
The requirements for this position are:
- Resident of the USA, UK, Canada, or Australia
I know you have lots of nodes, but I don't think you want to waste money by putting only 8 VPS ($40 worth) on each node, right? And you must be making some money from the VPS', right?In regards to your last comment, we have a lot more VPS nodes than you think. We spread out our nodes.
You don't need to worry about that.I know you have lots of nodes, but I don't think you want to waste money by putting only 8 VPS ($40 worth) on each node, right? And you must be making some money from the VPS', right?
Come-on stop pretending.... We all know you don't understand Soul or Jive.... a black friend telling me I don't understand Soul. And since apparently this needs clarification, s/offensive/amusing/.
No, not even close. America isn't a race, last I checked anyhow, it may be Nationalist(something Europeans know quite a bit about) but it's not racist. The reason customers like it is that it generally means native English speaking tech-support....As for the racism involved, it is borderline racist to say that you only employ US staffers, it implies other countries have less capable people which can be paid less without problems because they are foreigners and suck at their job....
No it is absolutely not discrimination at all. You're taking this the wrong way to the extreme. It's not touting the supremacy of the US.There is nothing wrong with overselling, as long as nobody is kicked for using the resources advertised and nobody suffers because cant use the resources advertised.
As for the racism involved, it is borderline racist to say that you only employ US staffers, it implies other countries have less capable people which can be paid less without problems because they are foreigners and suck at their job.
It even considers countries such as UK, Sweden, Germany all boiling in the same (black) pot. It might not say it directly but this is clearly a form of discrimination, this time based not on race, but on country of residence, something that many people have been born into and cannot change (at least not easily).
I personally do not care how someone is conducting their business, how are they advertising it, who is their upstream, what conditions do they have from it and why, but I do consider that touting your country's supremacy and your business advantage in using only citizens of it while being caught doing otherwise is a bad move and it had to called as such.
So do you resell all of your services?I've said this many times already; we're affilitated with Hudson Valley Host in the sense that we're reselling their dedicated servers and they are our primary supplier for our VPS nodes.
I've made it clear several hundred times already that it's only dedicated servers.So do you resell all of your services?
AFAIK, The dedicated servers are resold, all others are not (although all of the servers are from HVH)So do you resell all of your services?
Just wanted to point out that it's actually a requirement to only hire us residences and can be illegal to hire anyone outside of the country or anyone who lacks the proper legal paperwork to work.No, not even close. America isn't a race, last I checked anyhow, it may be Nationalist(something Europeans know quite a bit about) but it's not racist. The reason customers like it is that it generally means native English speaking tech-support.
Not to mention the USA is the best country ever... Oh wait I live in Canada now... Fuck!
Interesting. I was under the impression that you were patting yourself on the back over being so "transparent"?The GVH-HVH relationship is confidential and I cannot release any information regarding it.
Ah, the classic "yeah, well, back then it was not a lie!". Never mind that that was 2 weeks ago.The majority of our staff members are located in the US and during the time that the email was sent, we did not employ any Indian staff.
That about summarizes my thoughts on this. It's not exactly the first "transparency" incident either, Jon.I'm all about businesses being honest and transparent, but I refuse to sit here and watch you say you are honest and transparent with your clients when it is a very obvious, blatant, flat out lie. Stop with the crap.
To me, this reads as "we have enough money to burn, for a while anyway". If that isn't the definition of unsustainability, then I don't know what is.If our mass expansion and mass advertising efforts (Recent: WHT pinned thread!) haven't hinted it already, we have a large $$$$ reserve and we're not going to be going backrupt anytime soon no matter how large our BW overage bills are. And plus, we can always negotiate the overage bills too so it's not a problem.
That's a very easy and cheap claim to make, when you are the one defining what is "possible" and what is not.We're an honest company. I answer all questions relating to our company as openly as possible, do I?
Know what? If you're as transparent as you claim, then I'm sure you won't mind sharing with us how many VPSes you put on a node, what the node specs are, and what/how you are billed for all aspects of your VPS service. Then people here can do the maths for themselves.You don't need to worry about that.
He just wants to hide the fact that their servers are oversold to hell.Interesting. I was under the impression that you were patting yourself on the back over being so "transparent"?
Ah, the classic "yeah, well, back then it was not a lie!". Never mind that that was 2 weeks ago.
That about summarizes my thoughts on this. It's not exactly the first "transparency" incident either, Jon.
To me, this reads as "we have enough money to burn, for a while anyway". If that isn't the definition of unsustainability, then I don't know what is.
That's a very easy and cheap claim to make, when you are the one defining what is "possible" and what is not.
Know what? If you're as transparent as you claim, then I'm sure you won't mind sharing with us how many VPSes you put on a node, what the node specs are, and what/how you are billed for all aspects of your VPS service. Then people here can do the maths for themselves.
Second that.There is nothing wrong with overselling, as long as nobody is kicked for using the resources advertised and nobody suffers because cant use the resources advertised.
Pretty sure that does not apply unless you are asking your foreign workers to reside in the US and work within the US.Just wanted to point out that it's actually a requirement to only hire us residences and can be illegal to hire anyone outside of the country or anyone who lacks the proper legal paperwork to work.
Please reference the following form from the IRS http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-9.pdf that is required for all new hires for any United States based company.