I believe we're paying around $5/amp here in the US. Which is not unreasonable I think.
Alex Balashov wrote: > Chris Bagnall wrote: > >>> Or, just colocate in the US. >> Fine for web / database services, but probably not so good for telephony >> applications >> (unless you're serving a predominantly US-based customer base). > > Well, that's not necessarily true. Yes, of course you're going to add > some latency, but it doesn't have to be too much. It all depends on how > the US data center is peered. If it's peered with primarily Tier 1 > backbones that privately haul trans-Atlantic traffic and go back to > LINX, Redbus, etc. in London, you're pretty well off. > > That said, of course, there is additional latency. If by "telephony > applications" you mean media handling (and no way to release it), then > you probably don't want to be in the US serving a UK customer base. If > it's another kind of telephony application, it might work great. > > There are several calling card vendors I deal with that send their media > to termination providers in Western Europe from here in the US and don't > seem to get any complaints. > >>> Data center power offerings here are not even denominated in terms of >>> single amps, but usually tens of them. >> Most full racks in the well-connected datacentres in the UK generally offer >> 8 or 16A included >> in your rental charge. Anything above that is usually charged extra, and the >> "overuse" charges >> are not inconsiderable. Bear in mind if you want to fully load that rack >> with 1U boxes and >> each server's using 0.9A, even a 16A allocation is woefully insufficient. > > Well, of course. It's pretty much the same here, with the difference > that it is more typical to just charge for another block of amps as an > overage rather than bill obscene amounts per amp. It depends on the > data center, though. > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
