Back to the article@ Colin Millar #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 15:33 GMT
Not *any* ISP, but *most* other ISPs are actually better.
Virgin Media ADSL punters suffer 2-day email meltdown
OpenSRS #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 14:59 GMT
Interesting that this comes days after the rebranding of Tucows' wholesale email service as OpenSRS. All management is change management...
Virgin Media - Regular as clockwork #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 15:11 GMT
Some observers believe that it is not in fact the moon which govern the tides but Virgin Media's email servers falling over.
If I thought any other ISP was actually any better and could be arsed dealing with customer service droids I'd move.
Does Tucows also provide delivery of comments? #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 15:33 GMT
OpenSRS
Posted 30 minutes ago
Virgin Media - Regular as clockwork
Posted 20 minutes ago
Is there some censorship going on here? There's only comment when I check the page.
OpenSRS is the domain service... #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 16:22 GMT
So if OpenSRS went titsup, then it affected a fair number of people. I quit using OpenSRS the day my hosting provider started their NIC. I trust them a lot more, even though OpenSRS is Canadian.
False alarm #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 16:22 GMT
My first reaction was that they had simply deleted my e-mail account because I stopped using them as an ISP three years ago. But no. Apparently it is just that they are crap.
@ Michael Jennings #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 17:48 GMT
Ha, my ISP is VM but my old ISP still delivers my mails - for free, 4 years on!
Makes you wonder why some ISP's are so lax at deleting lapsed mail accounts - what's in it for them?
Decoding the management spin #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 20:21 GMT
"Working around the clock"
means
"It'll take days, not hours"
Next they'll be having a go at finding out how it happened, and putting measures in place to see what happens next time but hoping that it doesn't.
Where's My Cows ? #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 20:21 GMT
You're right, The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software is a damn silly name for an ISP ...
Glad I left VM #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 21:51 GMT
I was fairly happy with NTL (cable and adsl). Things went downhill rapidly after Virgin took over (adsl). I am now _extremely_ happy with Zen (adsl).
Maybe there is a good reason for staying with Virgin as an ISP, but I have no idea what it might be.
<I got my coat and left>
@Colin Millar #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 08:30 GMT
You need to raise your expectations!
Your ISP (3.5/10): http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/products/10.html
Best of breed (9.5/10): http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php
Virgin still has customers ?!?
@Dave #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 09:18 GMT
From Tucows' website:
"Recent News »
Tucows Reseller Services is now OpenSRS
July 27, 2008 — Some of our long-time resellers may remember that OpenSRS was the name of our original reseller service when it started in 1999. We feel this name best captures our heritage as a provider of services to hosting companies and ISPs and will let us continue to build on our promise to be Reseller Friendly.
We'll continue to provide you with our suite of wholesale services - Domains, Email, SSL, and our new Personal Names service - only now we'll be doing so under the OpenSRS name."
The wholesale email service now falls under the OpenSRS brand.
You're welcome.
Happy Virgin ADSL customer #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 09:18 GMT
But then, I don't touch any ISP's email, and use my own tied with my domain. At least my hosts work faster than Virgin email's!
oh my god #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 09:18 GMT
so most of the time your email works, then when it goes off for a couple of days you all piss and moan
GET A LIFE PLEASE
The Mother of all cock-ups #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 09:18 GMT
Title says it all really
[Serves you right for being with virgin media]
Another **ck up by Virginmedia #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 11:30 GMT
Whats wrong with this isp!
It supplies crap service, and now it cant even give us e-mail facility without using a third party supplier, i wondered where the Tucows advertising came from now i know
if it wasnt for the free newsgroups i would ditch these amatuers very quickly!
Free email is a false economy #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 11:30 GMT
Get your own domain name and host it with a quality provider. Then you never need to suffer this sort of muppetry again.
I recommend the Zimbra service from Simply Mail Solutions: www.simplyms.com - excellent Ajax web interface and there hasn't been a single outage that I'm aware of in the two years I've been using them. All of that, including a more than adequate 1GB mailbox for a tiny £3.50 a month.
Staying with VM #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 11:30 GMT
"Maybe there is a good reason for staying with Virgin as an ISP, but I have no idea what it might be."
As a cable customer that would be 20mb/sec without living 3 inches from one's nearest exchange. Really can't remember how long ago I used an ISP's email service (they shouldn't provide them at all imo - but how many people use gmail yet would complain if VM stopped providing such services?).
But yes I don't understand why VM have an ADSL arm all all - the only thing it does for them is win them bad publicity, they should dump all their customers on somebody like zen or be.
To avoid confusion, OpenSRS may be Canadian, #
Posted Monday 18th August 2008 21:03 GMT
but I don't believe it is affiliated with OpenBSD, which is based in Alberta, Canada. When I saw OpenSRS I assumed it was but then couldn't find reference to it on their website.
I don't know if any of you were thinking this, as well.
OpenBSD is, too my very limited knowledge, a rock solid OS and the projects affiliated with it are pretty good too. Those are OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
flashback! #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 03:18 GMT
Cripes! #1: people still use ISP email?
Cripes! #2: tucows is still around?
Mine's the purple one; I'm gonna party like its 1999
@jon #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 10:23 GMT
Seconded
I use 1 and 1 for my domain and mail (never had an issue with their linux mail cluster) and Namesco for my ADSL because its cheap and their service ain't bad
My mail costs me just over £8 a year
lot to be said for not putting your eggs in one basket.
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