Best Places to Co-Locate? 30
Stephen wrote in a while ago with
this question:
"Where's the best place to co-locate my
Linux box in California? I heard there are
loads of server farms in the San Fran to the
L.A area. Which one is the best and most
cost effective? Well most of us will agree
that the Internet is much larger than
California, so lets open this up a bit:
What are the best places to co-locate
ANYWHERE
Places to CoLocate (Score:2)
I would suggest you stay AWAY from verio though. They are bad news.
Re:Places to CoLocate (Score:1)
Look at staying with the big guys (UUnet, bbn/gte, etc) if you are looking to do more than host a shell box cheaply.
Also check out level(3), and globalcenter. Both are willing to deal, and have excellent networks.
Check out Above.net (Score:1)
But above.net, hosting/colocates is all they do. Gotta like those multihomed OC-12s and only paying for the bandwidth you use...
Re:Places to CoLocate (Score:4)
sorry for the rant, but we have 5 Racks there and it's been the best Datacenter Ive ever worked with.
Re:Check out Above.net (Score:2)
We're about to put 3 machines at above.net and while its expensive, the company is top notch. Their San Jose and Washington, D.C. facilities are both ISO9002 certified, and I think they have enough backup/generator power to stay online for 6 days if power goes out.
Basically, if Armageddon hits, Above.net will be the last bastion of Internet connectivity.
Oh, and their 9.8Gb/s of bandwidth with 270+ peering relationships doesn't hurt their availability either.
Last thing, their network statistics are online 24/7 in realtime. If you've ever used MRTG, their CTO Dave Rand helped write it. No secrets, 100% honest and 100% awesome service.
-brian
9netave? Other low budgets? (Score:1)
We're looking for our own server that really only needs to do 100-150MB a day of throughput and run some server apps, so I'm hoping to keep things under $200. Any advice?
Thanks!
--JZ
DSL? (Score:1)
What do you all think? Is this a valid option or would I be nuts to consider it? My system will run a Web server and an E-mail server with a LOT of users (probably over 1000 eventually).
...and Apartments??? (Score:1)
Hosting at Exodus vs Frontier Global Center (Score:1)
Re:Check out Above.net (Score:1)
Re:9netave? Other low budgets? (Score:1)
I'm extremely happy with lightlink [lightlink.com], our local co-location provider, just 3 minutes walk up the hill. We get a 4'x2'x2' locked box, 3 IPs on a fast T1, 24 hour card access, and a bunch of freebies, for $250/mo. plus $10/gig.
Re:DSL.. more like 640kbps but there is a catch... (Score:1)
DSL like those 56k bit modems isn't full duplex. The speed is faster downloading than uploading.
Bell atlantic offers a "Bussiness DSL" with speeds up to 7.1 MBS downstream and 680 kbps upstream> (Thats top of the line, ie the most $$). All the others programs offer 90 kbps upstream.
Also you get "dropped" at the phone company switching station, where you tie in to one of a few"approvd" ISPs.
It seems faster than ISDN (128 kbps) though.
Re:DSL.. more like 640kbps but there is a catch... (Score:1)
C o Location in England, UK (Score:1)
VIIS (Score:1)
The Frontier GlobalCenter facility in Sunnyvale is generally regarded as one of the very best facilities in the world (that's why Yahoo and many other big-name sites co-locate there). The bandwidth is clean, and the facility is superb. However, it has been the experience of many smaller companies that they have a tendency to pay more attention to the larger clients... as far as I know, they're not even setting up new accounts at less than 2mbps.
One of the things that we offer is server co-location in this facility in our own private server farm. You'll get the same quality of network services (ie; bandwidth, availability, and power redundancy) without the cost of a 2mbps connection and the rental of a rack. Typically, you'd end up paying upwards of $2000 for simple co-lo in Sunnyvale. Because we buy in bulk, and manage our space and connectivity ourselves, we can offer co-location for much, much less.
You can also get actual rack space from us at discounted rates, and run a T-1 off it like Exodus (someone mentioned that in a post here too..)
But what we really pride ourselves on is the level of personal attention and caring we give to our customers. We are always here to help our customers grow and become successful.
By the way, someone mentioned Verio.... I also suggest you stay away from them. Their network management philosophy leaves something to be desired. We've had quite a few customers from Verio tell us how horrible their customer service is as well (ie; I don't have a phone number to call, and I don't know the name of my rep!).
Feel free to drop me a note if you'd like more information...
whoops.. forgot my email address... grant@viis.net (Score:1)
Grant
DSL: Do your homework (Score:1)
yahoo (Score:1)
yahoo does not have 1100 web servers.
yahoo has servers with many co-locations, not just frontier. they also use exodus and level 3.
Re:DSL? (Score:1)
Re:Places to CoLocate (Score:1)
In whose alternate universe? They are expense, yes. But their service is as good as anyone's, and there is nothing wrong with Exodus facilities.