check out hurricane electric in fremont. they have colo facilities in fremont, san jose, new jersey and a whole lot of other places. we colo our monitoring service there, in addition to new jersey. multiple points of presence on the net, fantastic service, and great prices. a full cabinet with 1mb of bandwidth is $900/mo.
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Keenan wrote: > 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 > -- christian void - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.morphine.com/void/ gpg key available on request jay is my hero. _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
