xicex said:
advantagehost seems like it's hosted on a dial up connection lol, it's always down, and i'm getting a 46 kb file off an ftp program and it's been over 10 minutes and it's only at 18% lol, horrible host.
Actually they are located on a data center hosted server located
in Canada at RackForce Hosting (
http://www.rackforce.com).
However, they are using a ".co.uk" domain which causes an unglued
DNS situation because the root server for all ".co.uk" domains is
located in London, U.K.
The authoritive DNS server for advantagehost is located in Canada
presumably on the server that they purchased from RackForce.
Basically, in a simplified nutshell, your computer has to make two
seperate connections located on two totally seperate sides of
the planet each and every time you attempt to connect to
AdvantageHost or any site located there.
That's a whole lot of hops you have to pass through and net lag
just to make a simple DNS resolution.
Now there may also be other factors that complicate things further.
In example, I don't know what their server load ratios are. If they
have too many sites hosted on each server, that can also cause
dramatic slowdowns in performance as well.
In any case, no they aren't on dialup but the way they are configured
could certainly make it seem like it.