Folks: Here is what I remember from my days at Genuity/GTE/Whatever-the-name-is-now:
Web hosting was in scatteted data centers throughout the contry. The New England location was at the Concord Ave (Fawcet Street) facility. The other facilities that I can remember were in Cantully, VA; Palo Alto, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AR; and some others that I can't pull out of the fog in my brain right now. All of these centers had a pretty nice common architecture. Each had its own emergency power supplies. Each had it's own disaster recovery facility. Each had it's own 'touch staff'. System/Database admin was centralized in Cambridge and Palo Alto, with Cambridge the Mother and Palo Alto the Daughtor. I worked in the Mother facility in Cambridge (being the Mother as we had the team leads; established policies; and performed the majority of the software installs. The Daughtor facility in Palo Alto provided 'west coast' time coverage and absorbed the crews who had worked for a company (I think, BARRNET) that we absorbed. Things were pretty cool. Each machine had its console port attached to terminal servers. There were remote control power switches. That meant that I could sit in Cambridge (or at home) and flip the power and watch the console of a machine in Phoenix. As far as I can remember, the Fawcet data center was not considered a 'temporary' facility. This, in fact, at least as of the time I left, was kind of the 'Mother' of all of the data centers. I think it was the largest of all of them. It was pretty well built and had good backup power and security. It was well laid out; with racks nicely labeled. It usualy took me only minutes to find a machine. There was decent room in the front/rear of the racks to do work. I did enjoy working with the touch staff of that data center. They seem to be conscious of the facility and it's ease of use by us system admins. I don't know what you all mean by CO-LO, but these machines were fully administered by us. The customer did not have/nor did they want the root or DBA passwords. There were a few exceptions, but they may have had some sudo access (especialy for initial setup of their machines) but they gave that up once their systems were in full production. All system admin tickets were taken care of by us. We would be the ones who got paged; not the customer, if something happens in the middle of the nights. The machines are owned by the facilty and rented to the customers. The customer is presented with a fully loaded machine that is ready for their data and cgi's. I've been gone since 2000. I don't know what's happened since. If all is the same as it was then; and if I had the bucks to host my web site (www.clearplastic.com) at a full service facility, I would consider this facility. Having been paged numerous times for other customers; I would love to sleep, knowing that others will be taking care of my web site. Truly Cleara (Mark Allyn) _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
