Which power outage are you talking about? An outage on Monday, July 30, shut down several ISPs in the 200 S. Virginia St. building where ATG is located, although ATG was not one of them. SBCIS (formerly PBI) and WPTI were both down for a while that day. My less-than-perfectly-informed contact at SBC said the problem was a failed router, but my contact at WPTI said there was some kind of a localized power grid failure. ATG remained up during the outage.
You may find the following summaries of local colo centers helpful. They are borrowed from an internal memo at a Reno-area business. As it happens, they were ATG customers but were looking for an alternative. Last I heard, they are still with ATG. Quote: "These summaries represent our impressions of the hosting centers compared in this brief. Redundant, Inc. --------------- True to its name, every facet of Redundant's operation is fault tolerant, including network infrastructure, electrical power, air filtration, temperature control, and fire suppression. Their security measures include mantrap (airlock) entry, video monitoring, biometrics, Kevlar-lined walls, bulletproof doors, and a human security guard stationed behind [an inch of] Lexan. They provide dual, fully diverse connections to the Internet (currently about 10% utilized). Their entire operation is linked to a carbon-copy facility in North Carolina. Redundant is a national-class hosting facility, outstanding among its peers in this area. Great Basin Internet Services ----------------------------- The GBIS hosting center, if it can be called as much, failed nearly every test. It resides in a small building that has not been physically upgraded since it served as a roadside bakery. Its colocation area amounts to a few square feet of bare concrete occupied by four open relay racks. Customer equipment is jammed together amid a jumble of wires, with no physical or network security whatsoever. The facility provides no security monitoring; any customer with access to the room could intrude on any other customer's system at a whim. Even worse, the private portion of the GBIS network resides on the opposite side of a residential-style sheetrock wall, with open ceiling tiles just above visitors' heads. Anyone with access to the hosting racks could employ a step ladder to gain access to the GBIS network core. GBIS is Northern Nevada's most venerable ISP, so it was with sadness that we found its hosting center to be small, dirty, old, worn out, and insecure. Advanced Telcom Group --------------------- [Our] equipment is already hosted at ATG, which makes them the incumbent in this race. The ATG hosting center is best described as adequate. Its colocation area resides on different floor from ATG's offices, and is protected by a simple keycard lock. The hallway and customer area lack video monitoring, so little prevents an intruder from tailgating past the access controls. Once inside, an intruder that works circumspectly could leverage relatively free access to data sent or received by ATG's customers. Each colocation rack connects to the backbone via an easily accessible CAT 5 cable that emerges from its top, another tempting target for interlopers. The wires should be concealed by a raised floor, not available to anyone with a step stool. On our most recent visit, the circuit-breaker panel for the entire colocation area was sitting wide open. Anyone could have accidentally or intentionally shut down power to all customers. These represent the types of issues that place ATG in the "average" category with respect to other players in the market. Were there a wider field of local competition, ATG might have placed lower our ranking." Endquote. --Eric -----Original Message----- From: R. Busch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 3:57 PM To: Reno Linux Users Group Subject: [RLUG] colo in Reno Howdy everyone, now that atg has managed to terminally pi** me off (by creating a 30 min power outage that they claim don't know where it came from) I'm looking for alternatives (if possible in the same building, 200 S Virginia) All comments are welcome. Thx and happy 4th to everyone ! Rainer _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
