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Thanks, Jim.<BR>
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> From: jim@systemateka.com<BR>> To: bifrost@minions.com<BR>> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:28:54 -0800<BR>> CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] colo in and around SF?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> a good security approach is not to have anything <BR>> sensitive on your machines. maybe overwrite (reinstall) <BR>> the OS on a regular basis. <BR>> sonic.net near santa rosa will accommodate a single <BR>> 1U colo. san francisco community colocation project <BR>> (SFCCP) has a half rack in monkey brains' sublease area <BR>> in the telx racks at 200 paul. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 01:25 -0800, Tom wrote:<BR>> > Most of the suggestions have been pretty reasonable, however I'd offer the <BR>> > advice that VM's are flat out pointless for general webhosting. You'd be <BR>> > better off getting a "shared" hosting account somewhere and skipping the <BR>> > overhead of running a wasted VM. You'll get to miss out on most of the <BR>> > annoying things, and only some of the good things.<BR>> > <BR>> > If you need security, forget VMs or shared hosting, equally worthless.<BR>> > There are also currently no VM providers that I'd recommend to friends or <BR>> > enemies, they're all pretty terrible on a variety of levels.<BR>> > <BR>> > In terms of Colo in SF proper, there's nothing thats worthwhile unless you <BR>> > feel like throwing money out the window. Your options are slim, you'll <BR>> > either be at 365 Main, 360 Spear, 200 Paul, 650 Townsend, 630 3rd st, a <BR>> > ghetto colo thats not worth anything, or a "special" facility...<BR>> > <BR>> > You've got to go to the southbay to get anything remotely close to being <BR>> > useful, and even then you'll not find a large variety of places that will <BR>> > take just 1U. The only large colo I've found that'll still do 1U colo is <BR>> > Layer42, but they're pretty darn good. Everyone else will be a reseller of <BR>> > Equinix, Coresite, or some other 2nd/3rd tier datacenter, probably not <BR>> > worth dealing with.<BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR>> > Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<BR> </body>
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