This belongs on cf-community, where I am echoing my response.
First off, I can't say much about digex, but you seem to be comparing
apples and oranges in that Virtualscape does CF hosting where Exodus and
Globix are colo centers. If you want hosting, you can check the list of
Allaire partners on the site. On the other hand, Exodus, who we work with
extensively and Globix, who we may be working with soon, have nothing to do
with CF. They provide cages and/or racks, juice and a nice fat pipe along
with a smorgasbord of assorted monitoring and backup options.
The advantage of integrating Local Director and ClusterCats is a more
granular level of process monitoring. That said, Local Director is a bit
long in the tooth, technology-wise. We are going with F5 and leaning
towards Foundry Networks products in the near term.
If you are going for a hosted solution, I suggest that you try to get an
idea of the hosts actual performance, as how you use equipment is at least
as important as what the equipment is.
At 01:55 PM 5/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any recommendations or good/bad experiences with:
>
> Virtualscape
> Digex
> Exodus
> Globix
>
>We are trying to choose between them, and of the couple that I've spoken
>with so far, both claim to have much CF experience, both say they are
>Allaire partners, etc.
>
>A related question: with hardware load balancing, do people still employ
>ClusterCats? I know that Local Director and ClusterCats CAN be integrated
>(http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=15361) -- but do people do
>this in practice? How much of an advantage does the integrated solution
>offer over Local Director alone?
>
>Finally, any opinions between Radware and Cisco's Local Director for load
>balancing, which is at least one distinguishing feature of the above hosts.
>
>Any advice/stories would be MUCH appreciated -- I have very little
>experience in this area.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gregory M. Saunders, Ph.D.
>Senior Design Architect
>Cognitive Arts Corporation (http://www.cognitivearts.com)
>120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 1520
>Chicago, IL 60606
>
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