Mike Hammett wrote: > Then the whole collocation industry is up poop creek. Maybe that's why only > 1 or 2 companies have servers in MT. :-p > You might be surprised.... I know of at least two multistory buildings full in Billings.... Hotwire has a major installation in billings. KOA is in my Colo room in Helena, along with quite a few other smaller businesses. I would suspect we definitely have our fair share population-wise.
The situation is this: If I'm a landlord, and I provide the power, I am a regulated electric provider, unless certain conditions are met. The two main exceptions are either that I pass the main power bill directly to the clients on a pro-rata basis, with no meaningful markup (which wouldn't work, since I also need to recover cooling costs, which is related to power anyways), OR that I include it in the rent, as rent, and it doesn't vary based on usage. We do the latter... That is, if you buy 1U from space, you get room for a 1U server, bandwidth, plus power and cooling for a typical 1U server. Any monitoring I do is specifically for my own use. I have a APC metering pdu in each rack so I can tell at least aggregate how much is used, and know that I'm not undercharging. But if I'm charging too little, I have to increase the rent. -forrest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
