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Ok, I have been watching the threads about cbi.iq being down. I work professionally as a Network Administrator and on the side I am a Project Manager that leads a development team to develop software for a company. I did some digging and even had a chat with "ThePlanet.com" which is now merged with "SoftLayer.com" as of 14 months ago. I am surprised to see the site that CBI.IQ selected to host their website with... The hosting comes back to being with SoftLayer.com but under the terms and conditions of a 3rd party partner. Their partner does not have live support for me to dig further. I will have to wait for a reply back from their support team to find out additional information. Summary of chat(BTW, please don't swamp their support team, trust me) I will paste the whole chat below but summarize the key points here. As mentioned above, CBI is hosted with a 3rd part provider known as idynamicweb.com. If your like me, you focus on a websites copyright date to determine how involved a company is with updating their site, content, etc... I see that they have a copyright date of 2008... Not a big deal, but far from professional. I was told that the reason they are down could be that CBI did not pay their bill or abused their policy(this can also include web traffic overages, aka, too many visits). Here is the full transcript: ***I added some fluff to the convo to seem interested in their services to not seem too invasive with CBI questions.*** ***I also replaced the techs name to say "sales rep" or "x" incase someone tries to beat a dead cow.*** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for choosing SoftLayer. A representative will be with you shortly. You are now chatting with 'Sales Rep' you: Hello X Sales Rep: Hello, thank you for contacting SoftLayer. How can I help you today? you: Is SoftLayer another name for ThePlanet.com? you: I was redirected here and wanted to see the affiliation. you: I have hosting questions but was curious about the company name first. Sales Rep: We merged about 14 months ago you: Ok, thanks for clearing that up you: What is the guaranteed SLA for uptime and SLA for maximum downtime? Sales Rep: The SLA starts on page 5. It is pretty comprehensive. you: So in a nutshell it is a pretty solid on keeping uptime to a max correct? Sales Rep: That is correct. you: Ok, I was wondering because I host multiple companies. I develop software and keep an eye open for reliable hosting companies. you: I do have one concern though... you: I like to keep up to date with foreign entities and investments. I see that www.cbi.iq has been down for most of the day. I would imagine the SLA would not allow them to be down so long. Sales Rep: Is it possible that they didn't pay their bill or did something to trigger an abuse disconnect? you: The Central Bank of Iraq? Sales Rep: Those are two things that will keep them down for that long you: I doubt they would allow that to happen. Sales Rep: You'd be surprised. Sales Rep: They are hosted by a customer you: Could you verify if that is the case or if they decided to switch hosting? That is not personal, it helps put me at ease if I were to look further into SoftLayer. you: By a customer? Sales Rep: Yes they are a customer of a customer. you: So that does not relate directly to softlayer? Sales Rep: idynamicweb.com Sales Rep: The customer's website is up and servers are returning pings Sales Rep: if you ping cbi.iq it is returning pings you: Yes, it is pinging now, but oddly when I do a tracert it resolves to a domain that is not even registered. you: The last hop is advicesourcenews.com Sales Rep: a holding domain/hostname Sales Rep: that's just the hostname you: Ok, I see you: So it could be that they did not pay idynamicweb.com? Sales Rep: That's likely you: Since idynamicweb.com is one of your affiliates, that gives them control to cancel for billing or abuse? you: Without requiring intervention from you? you: Hello? Sales Rep: We have about 100,000 servers Sales Rep: Our large customers are mainly resellers like hostgator.com, site5.com , midphase.com , serverintellect.com, etc Sales Rep: They resell shared hosting to other people. you: I see Sales Rep: They have their own customers. Sales Rep: We only support our direct customers. Sales Rep: Think of it like infrastructure as a service. you: Right, they are acting as the middle tier you: Would make more sense for a prospect in the know to go to the source. you: I will look over your services in greater detail and weight out the potential pros/cons(if any). you: Thanks for your time Austin, I will get in contact if I would like to take this to the next step.

I would love to see it too. Would be nice to see Chap 7 or HCL finalized tomorrow to help back up the claim.

Wow, talk about timing of the video. lol This movie was just on last night. Caught it at the part of the movie where he just snorted the dust from the floor where this video starts from.

_delta » January 22nd, 2012, 2:16 pm • hello family: as we know the cbi is down and yes it did happen before but all the article from cbi from last week indicate that this might be it,and I was told by my contact that the cbi rate change last week was only a test before they show the real rate.delta from another site.

lol, good try though!

Can't find the smiley that is hanging itself....

No, I think it will take more time. How long? I would guess no more than 3-6 months but who really knows... Of course... as all of us, I hope it's soon!

I'll stick with a taxi or walk home in a hail storm if I had to.

LOL, I know the feeling all the well bro.

No prob, I couldn't pass it up hah Glad you liked it

"Other hand, the beauty of watermelon has sworn in new deputies, according to the Federal Court decision." Well, glad to know we had a beautiful watermelon take care of all the swearings. Although, I think the melon looks a bit angry. I am guessing they disturbed it's "vacation" like the rest of the GOI was on.

We could only wish they would shut up, lol You can't keep piling BS on day by day before someone's brain cells start to spark and say, hey... wait a min... I think I am seeing a pattern of LIES! Makes me think of Beavis & Butthead mentality of those that to listen and praise them for months worth of day by day claims of RV. "uuuhhhhhh, hey Beavis.. uhhh huhuuh huhuuh, This rocks, he said we are gonna score with an RV."

They will inevitably "be right" one of these times because they give a 24 hour window daily!!! :lol:

Thanks

I heard the chicken ranch is only accepting "Dong" at this time.

A piece of arse might help them calm down, quit bickering and get some work done! I say they "give it up" and let them have it.

It's clear that he never wanted to give the position away to someone qualified. It should had never been allowed to let him act as both PM and Defense Minister.

That is exactly what is happening. When all is well they celebrate THEIR "progress" but when it's bad it is OUR fault they waited to take action while we were there.

"He stressed that while he did not want a return of US troops to Iraqi soil, Washington should "use its diplomatic and other channels through the strategic agreement between the United States and Iraq to try and bring about sanity to the political process and inclusivity." ....... What on earth could be done through "diplomatic" terms to get Al-Qaeda to stop their attacks? Hasn't this been a war for the past 10 years? If their motive is to take over with a strong enough militia army(don't see that ever happening) then it is going to take pure brute force to stop them. This is a pony show attempt to place himself in the political spotlight... or as Carello said "And I suppose Iraq needs Allawi to lead them into the light and out of darkness.............. " We fulfilled our obligation while the GOI dragged their feet. The moment comes when we withdraw and they discover it's THEM that has to carry the torch for a change. Until then there was no sense of urgency to have their economy booming and government in place with a qualified Defense/Security Minister. They use the word urgent but rarely back it up with the attention it deserves. All we can do is sit, wait and watch...

That is just awesome Look closely and you can even see Ronald McDonald as the seal.

I thought the article said the Sunday's meeting was to determine who would be able to meet in a future meeting to discuss political issues.

That's terrible... there is no justification to stall over medical issues. I don't know if they are overwhelmed with patients vs doctor ratio or what the issue is for such a delay. They say they have vast resources for agriculture... Could you image the revenue stream from a few marijuana fields? Actually, maybe they should, they need to tone down the tensions between them.

I would hate to be a patient in their "emergency" room. LOL Knowing what we know with their sense of the word "emergency", could you imagine how long you would be in the waiting room???

No, that was just to set the stage for "emergency meetings" that don't ever seem to take place.

Wait a min... "...are due to meet on Sunday to set the stage for the emergency meeting of the political leaders." So... let me see if this is right. They are having a meeting to set the stage for an "emergency meeting" on Sunday to see who can attend a future meeting. :blink: