I've had a lot of success with The Planet out of Texas. They have self-managed and managed solutions and also have private racks so you can duplicate the security of a co-lo but get rid of the sysadmin. They are always helpful on support and if the hardware goes down it's on them.
http://www.theplanet.com/ J.J. On 6/6/07, John Paul Ashenfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 beta â Build next generation applications today. Free beta download 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:280283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
