When i worked at Audiobase we had a similar bi-coastal setup. We had one kid hired on the east coast who handled a lot of day to day chores at that end and could also go when someone was needed onsite, but for the most part we handled and run everything from the west coast where there were three of us. That seemed to work fine for us.
-thor |--- Highpoint Lowlife records -----------------\ |---- DoF - 'If more than twenty people laugh, --\ |------------- It Wasn't Funny' --- * out now * --\ | http://www.highpointlowlife.com -----------------\ On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, P a u l Guth wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm wrestling with a decision and I'm hoping you guys can provide > me with some relevant experience. I'm assuming some of you have > worked places with lots of servers in colos. If you haven't you > don't need to read the rest of this. > > We are going to be moving to a bicoastal datacenter setup. The > decision we need to make is whether to staff bicoastally as well. > > We currently have a DC (colocated) in santa clara with about 100 > machines in it. We'll be building a similar setup in an east coast > datacenter. > > There are currently 3 Network Operations folks who watch over the > system, but the security guy and the director of netops are also in > the oncall rotation. Plans are to hire 3 more netops folks by the > time the second DC is live. The question is: do we keep this > new staff here on the west coast? Or do we hire on the east coast? > > I'm interested in hearing any experiences of small ops organizations > (less than 15 people) supporting bicoastal datacenters. How were > they organized? Did it work? > > I'm also interested in experiences with larger organizations, and > in your opinions on the matter even if you have no relevant > experience. > > Thanks. > ___________________________________________________________________ > P a u l > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
