I used to have hosting there back in the post-harvardnet days, when I
think it was hosting.com.
For being well built-out, they had a lot of failures. They are/
were on both the Somerville and Charlestown powergrids, with diesel
generators, and many racks having UPS backup on top of that, and even
with that, they still ended up having the entire datacenter go dark
on one, possibly two occasions. They also built out with redundant
fiber feeding the buildings, but the fiberpaths converged just
outside the building, and the datacenter lost all network for a few
days when the bigdig took out some of the fiber.
I'd *hope* that these problems have been fixed. Unfortunately, that
datacenter has changed hands -so- many times in the last 8 years that
I'm a bit skeptical.
Let's see... Harvardnet, Allegiance Telecom, Hosting.com, Boston
Datacenters, and now HostedSolutions.
I'm pretty sure XO had partial ownership for a while, and I'm sure
that I'm forgetting at least one other ownership transition.
-steve
On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com) has a nice data center
in the old Hood factory in Charlestown. I've had a couple of
rackmount servers installed there for several years. Reliable,
reasonable cost, industrial strength power/ac/backbone
connections. Basic monitoring, reboot, and so forth is part of the
package. 24-hour access. I've been pretty pleased.
Sean Lutner wrote:
As mentioned, Savvis has their Bos3 facility open in Waltham and
that is built out to ~150 watts/sq ft. The company I just left was
hosted there and it's filling up fast.
There is also a new data center opening in Sommerville in the next
month or so called 2N+1 (http://www.2nplus1.com/). They will be
offering up to 250 watts/sq ft. I toured the facility recently and
it should be nice once complete and online.
On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Chris Palmer wrote:
Anyone know of a good datacenter within 128 for a compute
cluster? I
don't need especially redundant internet links or power, just
someplace
I can get to if there's an outage, and decent power/cooling.
Our computer cluster has outgrown our little was-an-office
machine room
and needs cooler climes to survive the summer up and running.
-Chris
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