AboveNet or UUnet in Vienna, VA. If you'd like more than one location,
the next choice would be Palo Alto, CA followed by New York, NY. For
really good redundancy, you should use multiple providers. A good
second choice to AboveNet or UUnet would be Savvis and the best place
to host with them is Saint Louis, MO.
If you'd like the dirty details on why the above providers are the best
and what makes those specific cities the best I am happy to spell that
out as well. However, I would suggest that if you want the best value
for your hosting dollar --while still maintaining 100% uptime-- that
you work with someone who is well informed in this area. Anyone who
tells you 100% uptime isn't possible on even a relatively small budget
doesn't know what they are talking about. Of course, I am available for
consulting in this regard.
-Matt
On Feb 3, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Eric wrote:
> Well, to be more specific, the individuals needing to use it would be
> North
> America, from Alaska to the southern tip of Mexico
> specifically.��Basic idea
> if big power outage, something causes a big part of the grid to go
> down,
> response is not compromised as systems shift to the available web
> servers
> all needed traffic...standard stuff.��Just where to place with such a
> large
> and disaparate user base.��Sometimes I think just a few big ones are
> great,
> but then think even smaller more geographically distributed ones are
> better....
>
>
> We may either choose hosts, or setup independant data centers/colo
> some
> places....we are just trying to think through no single point of
> failure for
> the whole deal.��Can't really be more specific, sorry.
>
>
> Thoughts, thanks Matt.��Offlist is fine unless you think the greater
> good
> could benefit from the knowledge.
>
> ��_____��
>
> From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:06 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Way OT: Internet Backbone
>
> I think you are asking which general geographical areas you should use
> for your hosting. Well... it depends on who you are going to use for
> hosting and where your clients are likely to come from. I can give
> very
> detailed specifics if you would be willing to be more specific about
> your needs.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Feb 3, 2004, at 4:55 PM, Eric wrote:
>
> > We have a way OT issue to work through and thought you folks here
> may
> > be
> >��able to help...
> >
> >��We have a critical client with absolute mission critical
> > functionality that
> >��needs to be able to function even in emergency and regional
> > outages.��What I
> >��am starting to research for the first time on this scale is the
> proper
> >��distribution of data centers and redundant blah blah blah...and I
> am
> > at the
> >��point of backbones and providers.��Is there such an animal as a map
> > that
> >��demonstrates higher concentration of backbone areas?��Would a major
> > ISP even
> >��give up that info...we are sensitive to security obviously but
> before
> > I
> >��start that route I was wondering if there was some "generalized"
> > source that
> >��just says, hey here works great and here in each region.��I hate to
> > just
> >��toss a pin at a major city centers as I believe we could identify
> > better and
> >��more relevant criteria.
> >
> >��If you happen to have experience in such requirements, even drop
> us a
> > line.
> >��We don't want to recreate the darned wheel.
> >
> >��Does that make sense?��Thanks.
> >
> >��Regards,
> >
> >��Eric J. Hoffman
> >��Managing Partner
> >��Datastream Connexion, LLC
> >��1.888.690.2893
> >
> ��_____
>
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