I noticed early this morning couldn't log in to the portal ,after being kicked from the gateway i had been on for weeks, when i was hosting a server for an online game, just had to hop back onto that gateway as the one i connected to is having a jitter fest Zen you need to sort out your capacity from Manchester to London or whatever is causing the jitter

jitter fest
more jitter

Edited by tommy45 (Thu 22-Oct-15 14:15:48)

In reply to a post by Samadeus:

I can't believe you're actually serious, what does it matter where they host their website?

It is all about showing confidence in your product. Would you give your child a toy from a manufacturer who claims "our product is perfectly safe" but does not allow their own children to play with it?

By outsourcing their own website Zen are tacitly acknowledging that their in-house data centres are not up to the task of delivering even a simple mostly static website.

In reply to a post by Samadeus:

I can't believe you're actually serious, what does it matter where they host their website? ...

I'm mostly in agreement with you. The net is not the same thing it was 15 years ago. The landscape is very different. Considering Zen, last time I looked, are specifically a broadband provider, not a cloud hosting provider, I think it makes sense to outsource part of their infrastructure to another company which can (supposedly) host it better than they can.

14:58 .......... yet again off line, the site has crashed 4 times since it was supposedly repaired at 11:00 hrs.

Umm ....

Hosting & Domains | Business | Zen Internet
https://www.zen.co.uk/business/hosting-and-domains/
Domain names, web hosting, dedicated servers, managed hosting & colocation services make up Zen's Business Hosting & Domains solutions.

Zen is all about hosting .......

Noted, but none of that is "cloud hosting". I do agree, however, that their move to AWS does seem to indicate that they believe AWS to be more reliable than their own hosting infrastructure. I do have to question if the person who made that decision internally has researched this "presumption" in detail, because it sometimes is not the case.

But so what if it is more reliable? I personally still don't see what the big deal is. I don't host with them anyway. Maybe if I did, I would see things differently. But their roots are in broadband. I called them up over a decade ago to enquire about Linux hosting (dedicated servers) and they were not even offering those. I admit, I found that odd at the time, and personally, that was enough to demonstrate to me that they were not a serious hosting provider, certainly compared to other companies around at that time. So in my opinion, hosting has never been their strong point anyway; purely an after thought for a company founded by the demand for broadband in the UK.

Because its cheaper than maintaining a server room and constantly updating hardware/software. With AWS, they do it all for you, and if you need extra capacity its simple.

We have been using AWS for over a year now and it's much better than our previous array of servers and is more reliable.

You'll find the cloud hosting here > https://www.zen.co.uk/enterprise/

But they can't keep their web page up and running ......... it's down again.

Edited by deleted (Thu 22-Oct-15 15:55:35)

Zen own a damn great data centre !

But they re-sell AWS for "their cloud hosting", right?