CI Host's Chicago Co-location Center Suffers 4th Armed Robbery in 2 Years

[mandy]

The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced intrusion in two years. They want to know how C I Host, an operator that vaunts the security of its data centers, could allow the same one to be penetrated so many times.

"I can't believe a datacenter has been broken into that many times," said Nick Krapf, president of Bloodservers.com, a startup game hosting provider, who said $15,000 worth of Dell servers were stolen in the October 2 heist. "What do you got to do to secure your facility for it not to happen? We're pulling all our equipment from all their other facilities."...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/..._breaches/

Note: CI Host was the first company we rented a server from in 1998 - we changed hosts after less than 2 months due to frequent downtime, "24/7 support" that was unreachable at night and weekends, and several other problems.  Almost a decade later and I'm still pissed.  (After CI Host we rented 2 dedicated servers at ServInt)

[rose]

"I can't believe a datacenter has been broken into that many times,"

:ditto:

[regic]

4th Armed Robbery in 2 Years

:blinkie:

[bargainbloodhound]

CI Host was the first company we rented a server from in 1998

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[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=16800.msg66102#msg66102 date=1194325349]

CI Host was the first company we rented a server from in 1998

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[/quote]

Try some meditation...........