TGIF

Author: , February 18th, 2011

This week has seemed long and hard. Trying to wrap up a number of projects. Looking forward to our weekly brunch on Sunday. My old friend Brian will be joining us. Verio as a hosting provider has gone WAY downhill in the eight years I have been a customer. Wednesday night they broke Perl on […]

The Last Straw: Verio Outage Twice Today

Author: , November 29th, 2010

I have had it with my hosting provider. Gonna move everything elsewhere starting NOW!

DNS Cache Poisoning

Author: , May 3rd, 2010

Ran into an odd problem this morning on my Verio server. Was unable to get DNS resolution on either downloads.wordpress.org or akismet.com. I was able to get DNS resolution on both my home systems and the ICI servers. That meant that the issue was specific to Verio. I called them. I was disconnected before i […]

More Verio Issues

Author: , January 30th, 2010

I am so eager to move to another hosting provider.

And since Verio is unable to service their customers… (just like AT&T)

Author: , December 28th, 2009

Hello Eric M. Stone, I apologize for any inconvenience you are having with the issue you reported. I apologize, we cannot move customers. Are you having trouble connecting to a perticular service or are you just reporting packet loss when connecting from your IP? Please let me know if there is anything else I can […]

Verio’s Response

Author: , December 26th, 2009

So they just cannot seem to find the answer, even though this has been an issue since I moved into the VPS3 server. They refuse to move me to another server, why I cannot seem to figure out. Time to find a new hosting provider… Dear Eric, Thank you for contacting Technical Support. So at […]

More Verio Issues – Time to Leave

Author: , December 25th, 2009

Been having connectivity issues again – cannot seem to get these people to listen to me. Now I hear that management has changed and that the Tech 2 staff no longer have actual root on the servers. He said: “Be prepared to be helped even less”, and sounded very upset. After almost 7 years, it […]

Visit to Brooklyn

Author: , December 10th, 2009

Heading to Brooklyn to visit Jeremy and work on the YouCake website. Was greeted this am by more pages indicating more problems with Verio. I will start migrating to a new vendor starting Monday if they do not resolve this.

Hosting Issues with Verio

Author: , December 9th, 2009

I have had nothing but problems with my hosting provider recently. Ever since I migrated from the VPS2 to the VPS3 hosting platform, I have had issues with host availability. Today, after being paged with an outage for the nth time, I finally had enough. I actually had to create a web page with my […]