Jeff Ambrosino wrote: > > We're looking to add some web server capacity on the west coast, > and considering Hurricane Electric Internet (www.he.net). Anyone > here have any knowledge of this company, services, quality, etc?
I have assorted friends and aquaintances who have quarter and whole racks at HE.net. I'd have a box there, but none of these worthies had 1U free to sublet to me when I was moving from Boston to Berkeley a couple years ago. The service is supposed to be good. I was attracted to them ~3 years ago because they advertised that they supported IPv6 throughout, and also offered a self-serve public IPv6 tunnel service. The only bad thing I've heard is that, like many colo's, they've occasionally had problems related to power density. Since I was only placing a single box for personal projects, I found HE's prices to be steep for either a quarter rack or a turnkey box -- especially since I already had a maxed out 1U ready to go. I wound up at Layer42.net instead -- $60/mo gets me up to 2U for a box, and up to 256Kb of 95%-ile average bandwidth utilization. Bursting above that is something like $125/Mb. At the time I got a 100Mb full-duplex Ethernet drop, and now I suspect GigE is standard. There's a customer web portal that shows your bandwidth utilization, IP address allocation, DNS hosting status (they'll secondary w/ 4 servers), etc. An extra $10/mo gets me a serial console connection, but the web portal gives me a way to cycle power to the box -- crude, but effective. Between the two I haven't needed staff intervention since bringing the box live in Febuary 2005. I've only had one outage since then where I was offline and it wasn't attributable to a software problem or my own error, and it didn't last more than 2 hours as I recall. YMMV. You want a suggestion for a top tier colo out here? 365 Main in San Francisco (www.365main.com). I got a tour from the siesmic measures in the basement to the multiple diesels on the roof. The place is absolutely incredible -- veritable operations-geek porn. If money weren't an object, I'd get a cage there and sleep well at night. I believe they also have another facility in El Segundo now. Makes my experiences renting a rack, then a cage at Global Crossing in NYC ~2000 look like the joke it was. HE.net is a very solid option, so far as I can tell. And, well, obviously Layer42 meets my very humble needs at present. Small but friendly, and they've just expanded their Santa Clara facilities. I have no fiduciary connection to any of these services that hasn't already been disclosed. Nor any friends working at any of them, so far as I'm aware. Good luck, --Steve. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
