[119482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: edgedirector.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hepworth)
Fri Nov 20 04:31:34 2009
In-Reply-To: <16720fe00911170923x2d81de68o9905ddb7ce662ffe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:24 +0000
From: Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com>
To: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2009/11/17 Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
> You really can't compare EdgeDirector's network to UltraDNS which is
> much larger and more resilient by leaps and bounds. I've spoke with
> the owner of ED before and decided against using the service. Right
> now we're using Afilias and the price isn't much worse, the GUI is
> much nicer, and the network is much larger and more redundant.
>
> We recently walked out on an UltraDNS contract due to deceptive
> billing practices. They're a corrupt company, imho.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Any one got any comments about edgedirector.com's service(s), esp wrt to
> > load balancing, geo-ip stuff etc.
> >
> > They seem to be way way cheaper than ultradns, esp when you adding in
> geo-ip
> > load sharing and such. So is there wnay reason WHY its cheaper?
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Oxford, UK
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team
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Jeffrey
can't see any info on the Afilias web site on them doing stuff with GNS type
solutions - maybe I should do something odd like talk
to them ;-)
--
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
