[ale] Speed Factory is back up

[James Sumners]

I don't feel bad about leaving them. When they were purchased a couple
years ago their decline was steady, and, I would argue, not slow. This
past weekend was a clear example of what the company has become. As is
widely known, they lost a lot of money over the weekend, and are sure
to lose more in the coming days. They were already in financial
trouble (according to their SEC filings). What was once a great thing
has come to a crashing end.

This email was sent via an Atlantic Nexus connection. They promised it
would be active Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning at the latest,
and it was connected about noon Monday. That's the kind of service
Speedfactory used to provide. Now Speedfactory can't even forward
their VoIP connection to off-site phones when they lose their
(single!) connection. Hell, I still received voicemail on my VoIP line
during this fiasco, and I'm not a major ISP.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>  >  It all went down hill when two things happened.  Darryl, the main guy
>  >  there left.  About the same time is when they were purchased.  I don't
>  >  know which happened first, but both were a bad blows.  They didn't
>  >  replace Darryl, just piled more work on everyone else.  They still had
>  >  some good folks there, but they were overwhelmed.
>
>  That, and they had all their eggs in one basket it seems.   Do they
>  deserve a second chance?  I suppose, but if you are in a situation
>  where you absolutely need uptime, then you (as they should have) need
>  a tested secondary solution.  I'll give anybody a second chance, but
>  that doesn't mean I have to rely 100% on them until they prove
>  themselves worthy.
>
>  -Jim P.


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James Sumners
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