I thought it would be great to start a thread at HD since it is a calmer forum. Since the acquisition and merger by GI Partners of The Planet & Ev1 and the rise of Softlayer it's reputation has degraded.
I've never used either providers so I am neutral in this matter and we do have our very own Brooke from The Planet to make points regarding this and hopefully (I use that term lightly) won't be slated.
Can The Planet recover from very tough competition from both Softlayer & Liquidweb and even Layered Technologies? They have invested alot in advertisement on WebHostingTalk and other associated forums but is their Marketing Capital eating away at their Capital to provide customer service and performance (After all that was what originally launched them as a leading provider for this industry)
Doug has been criticised and blamed for the downfall but from what I see is that I think he is what I call a "Puppet CEO" meaning too many decisions are made from above and he is the face infront of the camera to take the praise or the blame.
Unless The Planet can recover from the last 12 months I foresee GI Partners selling up very soon because 3/4 of their datacenters are cages when you went from 25,000 to 22,000 servers in 12 months from dispersed data centres it will be very difficult to finance and manage this and I’m guessing this is what is also eating away at their capital.
I've never used either providers so I am neutral in this matter and we do have our very own Brooke from The Planet to make points regarding this and hopefully (I use that term lightly) won't be slated.
Can The Planet recover from very tough competition from both Softlayer & Liquidweb and even Layered Technologies? They have invested alot in advertisement on WebHostingTalk and other associated forums but is their Marketing Capital eating away at their Capital to provide customer service and performance (After all that was what originally launched them as a leading provider for this industry)
Doug has been criticised and blamed for the downfall but from what I see is that I think he is what I call a "Puppet CEO" meaning too many decisions are made from above and he is the face infront of the camera to take the praise or the blame.
Unless The Planet can recover from the last 12 months I foresee GI Partners selling up very soon because 3/4 of their datacenters are cages when you went from 25,000 to 22,000 servers in 12 months from dispersed data centres it will be very difficult to finance and manage this and I’m guessing this is what is also eating away at their capital.