I would not recommend them. All our talks with them were positive, they bill the site as highly-available and it does look nice. However we have two (or three) cabinets there now -- one with HP blades and the other(s) are an HP EVA 8000 -- and have had three outages in the last six months (I believe they were all power related).
Our most severe outage was two months ago (5/20/08). On the afternoon of 5/20 the Peak 10 Charlotte data centers experienced a utility power outage. The generators supporting the Charlotte 2 data center started, but load was not transitioned automatically from UPS to generator (failure of transfer switch). Subsequently, the UPS units continued to carry the load until their batteries depleted and they transitioned into bypass mode. Once in bypass mode, generator power was being supplied to the datacenter. During this transition, power to the Charlotte 2 data center experienced a short interruption. The cause for the utility outage was determined to be blown fuse on a high voltage line. For over 24 hours the Charlotte 2 datacenter remained on generator power. The UPS units were operating in bypass mode and the batteries were being recharged. All our equipment was being fed unclean power and we had a few HP nodes drop. Jeff "Andy Shook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/16/2008 03:06 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> To "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> cc Subject Peak10 as a co-lo? Looking at doing some business with Peak10 Charlotte, does anyone have some feedback on Peak10 in general or specific to the Charlotte location? Any\all comments appreciloved? Shook ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
