Ok, I'm getting into the discussion a few days late, but a few thoughts: 1) I looked for years, for a local & inexpensive provider, or a co-op. Portland is a difficult market for colocation, and most local providers charge a pretty-penny for space.
2) Renting cabinets and then sharing amongst a community is a difficult prospect for providers. IINet no longer allows 24/7 access to customers hosting with less than a 1/3 cabinet, and you are restricted to the number of folks with keys/access (2, IIRC). The Pittock rates start at 1/3 cabinets, and Easystreet...I don't know how they handle smaller colocation arrangements. Then there's issues of various other people having 24/7 and unsupervised access to your physical datacenter assets. 3) Since I got fed up with waiting for #1, we dove in and leased a Pittock cabinet...found the 1st one filled shortly thereafter, so some shameless self-promotion follows (yes, an ad follows, please light your torches). I run TOCICI, and having been raised in Portland (Parkrose), I'm as local as you can get. I'm an active business association member, the geek side of me has been an accomplished Linux-loving SysAdmin since the mid-90's, and I've largely been a PLUG-lurker for nearly as long :-) Aside from the regular fare of IT Consulting services, TOCICI provides: - Hosting/Leasing of IBM brand servers. - Colocation services out of the downtown Portland Pittock. - VPS hosting primarily with OpenVZ (www.buildyourvps.com) and VMWare. While our current data-services provider is multi-homed we're turning-up a 2nd 100Mbit circuit in a few days. At that time we'll also be taking advantage of a recently acquired ASN from ARIN & start publicly announcing our routes over BGP. Rates and other info are on the websites: Colocation & Leasing: www.tocici.com/services-colocation.html VPS Offerings: www.buildyourvps.com For what its worth, while we're one of the least expensive colocation providers in the Portland area, a major portion of our overhead is tied up in the cost of power/cooling services, not in the cost of space itself. We're currently playing with the idea of a pay-per-watt structure, and if there's sufficient interest around here, I'm up for discussing terms offlist. Other offhand providers: * I was a client of IINet for around 7 years...one of their larger last-mile business bandwidth consumers at one point. We left after repeated datacenter and wireless network related core-competency failures that spanned over the course of several years...you've been warned. * Easystreet can be expensive, but they are great local folks to work with. * We've also worked with Forked.net in the past: great guys, smart and very capable. They also moved from IINet to the Pittock at about the same time we did. * Did I mention that TOCICI is really cool? :-) - Gregg Solid IT Support & Hosting Since 1995: www.tocici.com Small Parts Design & Machining: www.berkholtz.net On May 27, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Isaac Lewis wrote: > Hi there. > This is my first post to the mailing list, but I have a fairly simple > question. > > Is there a community colocation datacenter in Portland OR? I am looking for > somewhere to put a server, and I would like to do it in a community-based > datacenter like sfccp.net or seaccp.org. Is there something like this in > Portland? > > Thanks, > > Ike > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
