On 3/9/07, Drew Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone in the LUG have colocation experience with MV communications?
You might say that. The GNHLUG website and/or mailing list have been hosted with MV, in their Manchester colo facility, for years. Free of charge. I think we've only had one significant outage (the transformer fire Bruce mentioned). Once when our server locked up, they hit the reset switch for us, and then *apologized* for not having the system on their ping monitor list, and assured us that they would add it and keep an eye on it for us in the future. I was and still am dumb-founded at this level of service. Granted, if you're not a non-profit organization with minimal bandwidth needs (like GNHLUG is), I expect they'll charge you a fee for this service, but I still think it's tremendously worth it. I've also heard Mark Mallett speak of how MV.COM got started, how they've grown and changed, and their approach to business. Talk is cheap, of course, but I still feel pretty confident in saying that you won't be able to find a colo with better customer service anywhere on Earth, for any price. Better facilities, sure (MV is just a local ISP in the mostly rural state of NH, after all), but not better customer service. And I've learned that facilities don't matter much if there's nobody who cares around to apply them.
Also, there's little discussion of bandwidth on their website.
Like most co-lo facilities, you pay for the bandwidth you want. If you want a T3, I'm sure they'd be happy to provide the capacity. :) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/