Thanks, everyone for the suggestions and comments. All have been forwarded to the nephew; it's up to him now.
Curt On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Someone mentioned Sunguard. They are decent. In the 10+ years I have had > access to their colo, it has become less helpful. They have been good solid > network, and space providers. They do have space available in the colo, and > they have cube and meeting space for your DR needs. They are a tad > expensive, but part of that is also having staff on site 24/7 to do some > hands on work for you. > > For instance of the hands on stuff. We have a switch that on occasion > decides to flake out. When it does, traffic slows, and eventually stops. We > have a red ribbon on the power cord for the switch, we call up, they go > pull the cord and plug it back in. No one has to drive in to fix the > problem. > > When I say they are less helpful now. When we first went into the space, > there was a lot of very knowledgable people there, and they could help on a > lot of issues. We didn't need it much then, but it gave us nice warm > fuzzies for it being available. Recently we where being attacked as part of > an amplification attack. The new support in Colorado didn't have > access/software/support to help us understand the problem, and correct it. > They just sugested giving us more bandwidth temporarily to cope. But of > course that would have just helped someone else suffer more. > > Out of the 10+ years there, we have only had 1 power failure, 1 cooling > issue, and I think 1 network issue. The power was due to a transformer fire > and OEM telling them to turn off the generator. The cooling issue was just > a issue where they didn't install additional cooling soon enough. It only > caused one machine to reboot. That same machine is working on a over 2k day > uptime now. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Had a call from my nephew this afternoon. His company needs to move > > their DR site and is considering the Nashville area. I know there are > > several companies who maintain extensive DR sites in the area, > > Deloitte/Touche comes to mind. > > > > Their requirements are fairly simple, one rack in a data center plus > > office space for one or two people, within walking distance. 10 Mbits > > for one > > connection, and a couple of 40 Mbit connections. > > > > Thanks in advance for any leads, hints, dire warnings, etc. > > > > Curt > > > > -- > > -- 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 > > > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
