Folks, I've got a client getting ready to move a major CF/MSSQL site from a local colocation facility to a completely outsourced solution. I've had previous experience with Rackspace and am *very* happy with them as a choice, but I need to get a couple of competitive bids to ease the mind of everyone involved in writing checks.
I'm curious what comparable hosts folks would suggest -- here's the list of what needs to be supported and leasable from the hardware side * firewalls in a failover configuration (eg a pair of Cisco PIX 515s) * load-balancers in a failover configuration (ed pair of Cisco local directors -- BigIP is probably overkill) * servers comparable to the Dell 1u, 2u, and 4u rackmount series * active sysadmin support While a little ColdFusion expertise on the side of the host would be nice, it's not required since that's the one thing we *do* have in house. The goal is to replace the colo, sysadmin, and hardware and turn that into a single monthly check. We'll also be rolling out some Linux-based Rails servers as things go forward, so a one-trick pony ISP focusing on CF isn't the optimal choice. Oh, as far as volume goes, it's less than 1MBbs or so at 95% peak and gets about 20k uniques/month so it's not a super-high volume site, we've just got a requirement for reliability (thus the failover, load-balancing, and active support) Suggestions other than Rackspace? I've also worked with ServerVault in the past when *security* was the driver (eg they had 24 hours or something crazy of air supply for the staff...) but don't need that here. -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280238 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
