A pal o' mine recently asked me if I could reccomend a good colo, preferably in the Bay Area. We use Focal Communications down on 8th/townsend (you know, the Sega bldg), but we primarily chose them because in addition to hosting our cabinet, they're a full-fledged telco and can provision voice t1's as easily as data circuts (We write+host voice-recognition-driven business apps, hence the need for voice t1's).
Due to the nature of our platform, data latency, especially over WAN, is not much of a issue for us as it would be to my friend. We use our point-to-point there to control boxes and dump (huge) logs, operations that aren't really latency-affected, and if our WAN connections -- the point-to-point and backup VPN through the public Internet -- went down, our co-lo'd platform at Focal would still function, as a selfcontained unit. So we haven't really measured our WAN connection latency since our demands are so low in this regard it hasn't really been a problem for us. Therefore, though Focal has been O.K. so far, I can't speak for the latency aspect, and it got me wondering if we had to switch, what you all's impression is of a solid colo in this day and age of bankrupt Worldcom's. So any reccomendations, preferably in the Bay Area or SF with at least one georgraphically redundant connection, preferably at a place that actually has space, will host linux as well as w2k machines, and maybe isn't on its way into chapter 11? Cost is not as much of an issue. Last one I remember considering favorably was Rackspace, but I think they're just in Texas.. though it looks like they added another datacenter in England and now seem to support W2K, which I seem to remember they didn't before.. but supposedly they great onsite support or something... anyway any thoughts/opinions would be appreciated.. David _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
