<![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> Not sure where DAVIDU got this information about NTT/Verio but it appears to be way off base.

Verio is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT America. It provides shared web hosting for personal or small business use. NTT America is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications and provides Internet network and hosting services including collocation and leased servers under the NTT America banner.

There never has been a NTT/Verio data center in Freemont. NTT/Verio operates a 100,000+ square foot facility in Milpitas/San Jose with another large data center in Sterling Virginia. There are several legacy data centers in California however none were ever in Freemont.

Verio, as a subsidiary of NTT uses the NTT network, not sure how one would be so bad and the other so great since they are the exact same networks.

The NTT facility in Milpitas/San Jose has, last I heard, separate backbone connections from four other carriers aside from the NTT backbone.

flakattract

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> NTT America is hosting Twitter now according to the Twitter blog

Twitter Chooses NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services: [blog.twitter.com]

macimmn

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> A couuple things stand out here.

#1, you don't have an abrupt interruption of service unless a) someone fucked up, or b) something's horribly mismanaged. no unqualified or un-credible speculation should be made on which side of the fence that happened on, but you can be sure it happened.

#2, any competent technical team is going to go with what works best. if they figured out a better way to architect twitter's innards with someone else's infrastructure and/or by putting their own hardware in it, a quick move to it would be entirely expected.

joyent, for its part, does a good job at doing what it does.

but what it does isn't always going to be the best solution, for everyone, at every point in time.

zeef

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> Even if Verio is owned by NTT,why would Twitter allow for such disruption by moving the service before nailing down issues of reliability?

Just because a new owner or investor owns hosting infrastructure is no reason to push a preemptive move of such herculean proportions.

Then again, the text messaging…..profits…ease of gateway interconnect….speculation.

abmw

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> It's okay. If I can't get my tweet out about the great burrito I just ate RIGHT NOW, I can live with that.

BobDope

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter abruptly dumps Web host Joyent]]> NTT is unlikely to be their webhost. NTT mostly provides backbone and transit services. It's probably NTT subsidiary Verio -- which has a large datacenter in Fremont -- that is doing the hosting and colo for them.

If that's the case, they are in for a rude awakening as Verio Enterprise Hosting is a disaster in terms of the operation of their network.

If you're totally off the mark, and they are at some carrier-neutral facility and are just using NTT transit, then they are making a solid move. NTT operates a fantastic global network (which we use in at least five locations here at OpenDNS).

davidu

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