----- Original Message ----- > The boss says get me three quotes for locating a half rack of servers > with a 20 amp circuit and 8-10mbs network. We'll be installing our > servers. Looking for Metro Davidson or surrounding so we could be > hands on within a couple of hours (i.e. not Knoxville, Memphis or > Atlanta). Primary criteria - we're cheap. > > Co-lo sites keep changing hands and vanishing. What's out there. Yeah, > we know about Peak10.
Main thing I remember about the colo shopping I did with Basesys back in the day was; 2 main types of colo, Telco style and datacenter style. In Telco style, you brought everything for your rack, and you had to buy your network in telco circuit increments. Also the access was not 24x7 unless you paid a fee for someone from the facility to roll into the colo too. In Datacenter style, everything was part of the infrastructure and you just brought the servers and in rack networking. Access is always 24x7 and manned. Remote hands being a possibility. With the cost of actual hardware maintenance, and such. Now days I see more benefit to the cloud offerings. If you don't have regulations saying how your data is handled, moving out into the cloud might be a better option. If you don't have to rely on special hardware, why buy it up front and deal with it's eventual failure and the cost of that downtime. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
