{"id":2042,"date":"2008-06-27T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2008-06-27T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:48:16","slug":"you-get-what-you-pay-for-calpop-worst-isp-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/you-get-what-you-pay-for-calpop-worst-isp-ever","title":{"rendered":"You get what you pay for – CalPop worst ISP ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve got a machine colocated with CalPop, who offer 10 megabits and 4U for $99\/month – $88\/month if you prepay for six months.<\/p>\n

I’m really wishing I’d chosen a slightly better ISP. Today, they announced that I’m being renumbered and relocated to a different building – today – with no warning. Renumbering means I have to update DNS for all my domains, including name server bindings. The bit that really gets me is the *no warning*. Who doesn’t know that they’re going to have to relocate servers even a day in advance?<\/p>\n

So, those of you considering using CalPop for your colocation needs (hint, hint, google) – beware, you might find yourself renumbering with no warning. Or possibly worse – I’m idly worrying about whether they’re renumbering because they couldn’t pay their XO bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve got a machine colocated with CalPop, who offer 10 megabits and 4U for $99\/month – $88\/month if you prepay for six months. I’m really wishing I’d chosen a slightly better ISP. Today, they announced that I’m being renumbered and relocated to a different building – today – with no warning. Renumbering means I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}