DISQUS

A couple of things...

1. The tracker was always dynamic. Just go check Google's cache of the document from July 6th at 7 GMT (3 AM Eastern Standard Time)...
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:ctR5Mtfy9c...

This shows ixwebhosting being tracked before that comment was posted. Most importantly, if you just ran the tracker yourself, you would see that it is how I determined whether or not a page was timeing out. Go ahead and test it yourself!

2. The host title you see for Burton is the client name we used, viranteviral. You know how hosting companies work, the name use use is the temporary address you get.

3. I chose a random address for the whois information. I live in Durham North Carolina -- where my company, Virante, Inc. is. Which is why my phone number, 919-459-1035 is a 919, US number.

Please, someone rerun this test. I believe you will find similar results and it will answer this question once and for all.

Please consider my comments currently at reddit. I am Russ Jones, the creator of the test...

1. I didn't try to hide my identity
- I submitted the story with the russvirante account at Digg.
- I gave my name and company in comments at Digg and Reddit
- I expressly said I created it.

2. There is no link between us and the winner of the competition.
- I use a random whois address and a psuedonym for whois because I dont want spam mail
- Our IPs were both from Georgia, but theGoogleCache is hosted at Peer 1, who was not competing.

3. We used basic text and code to ensure the answer we wanted was the answer we got. Using mysql would have shown us which servers have the best combination of database caching and bandwidth throughput. We just wanted to know about bandwidth throughput. This was an intentional variable control.

There is a lot more thorough information that discredits the entirity of this story included in the reddit post that i have linked to...

http://reddit.com/info/242sd/comments/c243x6?co...