On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:26:07PM -0500, William Stearns wrote: > Good afternoon, all, > As many of you know, I have two cohosted rackmount machines (2U > each and possibly an external drive cage), one in Pennsylvania, and one at > my office in Hanover. For different reasons, I'm hoping to get those to a > new cohosting facility within driving distance of Lebanon/Hanover (I'm > really tired of driving 9.5 hours for maintenance :-). In a perfect > world, that would be less than an hour away, but I'd be open to Manchester > or Burlington. Boston's a little far. > I'm paying about $100/month already. I do need access to 64 IP > addresses because of the virtual machines on the systems, and a > non-trivial amount of bandwidth. > Can anyone offer thumbs up/thumbs down to any local cohosting > sites (price, techical strength, ease of physical access, availability of > IP's, and available bandwidth)? > > - G4
We had a full rack from them at my previous employer: They always treated us well. They only ever had network issues when Verizon upstream completely blew up due to a 12 hour transformer downtime in downtown Manch. (Our hardware, on the other hand, failed daily. Hooray for crappy setups tossed together on a budget.) > Also, at the post GNHLUG meeting dinner, someone mentioned that > there might be a cohost site in Manchester that offered half-racks (24U) > for around $300? Does that ring a bell? The half-racks I heard being discussed were from Ben, by Colospace. Travis may be able to comment on that more in general. I mentioned 4U spaces available from Boston Data Centers for $100 just as a datapoint -- I don't know anything about them, but that's what they offered me. (Again, just a ddatapoint.) > If that turned out to be a reasonable approach, does anyone else > have rackmount systems and interest in splitting part of a rack with me? I don't personally have any needs at the moment, but it might be an interesting experiment to do this with GNHLUG: I know that we've had a lot of stuff offered to us from various places (like the hosting of this mailing list) but it might be nice to have a "GNHLUG" server, that could be used for other projects as well. (Of course, all things require money and time, but at least this way it could be more centralized.) I'd be willing to throw in a few bucks a month to support such a thing, especially if it would allow for running projects off it that might otherwise not be associated with GNHLUG: The PySig wiki, for example, which is currently hosted by me, could move to a centralized gnhlug location... Just an idea. Might even be able to get some hardware donated by a local mom and pop of some kind ... (Am I still allowed to participate in GNHLUG now that I live in Cambridge? ;)) -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
