Hi Jordan, I work at Cybercon.com, a SAS70 Type II certified facility. We can do dedicated servers, colocated servers, cloud based vm hosting, and shared hosting.
While we don't have any specifically deployed OpenBD servers besides my own, we are more than willing to entertain the idea. I can offer every one a $1 trial vDedicatedServer (vmWare based virtual machine) with your choice of Linux, including 1GB of ram, 20GB of HDD space, and 5Mbps unmetered bandwidth. Please check out Virtual Server hosting site @ www.vServerCenter.com<http://www.vservercenter.com/> We could easily create a template virtual machine pre-setup for OpenBD, so that all we have to do is deploy the template image, change an IP, and change the root user password. I could probably get some free or nearly free hosting for the OpenBD dev crew if you all assisted in creating the "perfect" OpenBD vm. 2 of the Root DNS servers are hosted in our datacenter. Woot.com is as well. During most the Iraq War, Pakistan hosted their entire infrastructure at our Datacenter (due to only have two T3 lines to serve the entire country). We also have one of the largest credit card transaction engines in the MidWest hosted at our datacenter. We specialize in mission critical hosting systems. Some of our clients face penalties of $100,000 or more just for more than 5 minutes of downtime and they trust us with the responsibility to keep their networks alive. Our direct backbone connections will allow you to have high speed access to our facility in St. Louis, MO at speeds that are competitive to any location in any part of the globe. To test this from your location, just open up your command prompt > START > RUN > cmd.exe and type 'tracert cybercon.com' You will find that our 4 backbone connections provide network performance that is 1st class. Here is an example tracert from our datacenter to foxnews.com, a website which is hosted halfway across the United States. *notice the 'less than 1ms' times within our network *hop 3 is the final cybercon switch before being placed on backbone *notice time from hop 4 to hop5 (in denver)... it gets as low as 19ms *by hop 6, the data is in San Jose, a total average time of less than 100ms C:\Documents and Settings\Jason>tracert foxnews.com Tracing route to foxnews.com [69.22.138.122] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.168.88.1 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.21.14.1 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms sw3sw1.cybercon.net [216.15.195.1] 4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 63.208.32.185 5 26 ms 19 ms 19 ms ae-4-4.ebr1.denver1.level3.net[4.69.132.182] 6 48 ms 53 ms 53 ms ae-3.ebr2.sanjose1.level3.net [4.69.132.57] 7 46 ms 54 ms 54 ms ae-72-72.csw2.sanjose1.level3.net[4.69.134.214] 8 47 ms 48 ms 44 ms ae-2-79.edge2.sanjose1.level3.net[4.68.18.79] 9 45 ms 46 ms 55 ms xe-0-2-0.cr1.sjc1.us.nlayer.net[4.79.220.70] 10 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms po1.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.143.130] 11 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 69.22.138.122 Trace complete. Please let me know if anybody is interested. Jason
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