[PLUG] looking for new ISP

[drew wymore]

On 1/24/07, eehouse <eehouse at eehouse.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:29:47 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] looking for new ISP
> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;  civil and on-topic"
> >       <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701240627362.21810 at salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
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> > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, drew wymore wrote:
> >
> > > Having been an IINet employee  they've cleaned up their act the last
> few
> > > years but support leaves alot to be desired IMHO. I've never heard
> > > anything but good reviews about SpiritOne/Aracnet since my days back
> at
> > > Teleport.
> >
> >    It may not be important now, but when SpiritOne bought Aracnet I was
> > _very_ concerned about continued support for linux and the technical
> mail
> > issues. So I called the company. A few hours later, the president of
> > SpiritOne called me and we had a discussion about my concerns.
> >
> >    That level of attention to customers tells me a lot about the
> company.
>
> They sound great.  Unfortunately the don't "do" DSL in Corvallis.  They
> might work as a web hosting provider.  I'm still looking at that but
> hoping iinet will do for both.  One of their sales people is looking into
> what apps they have available to shell accounts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Eric
> --


Unless its changed you don't get a heck of a lot out of shell accounts. No
ping and you can compile your own binaries as I recall but its a Solaris box
that hosts the shell server so depending on what you're working on it may
not compile at all.

Drew-