[Noisebridge-discuss] colo in and around SF?

[Ronald Cotoni]

Some more information.  You really don't want to be in HE in fremont, they
are a horrible facility.  They had some major power issues this past year.
 Also you would want to be where there are peering centers.  I would suggest
chicago, dc, nyc, san jose.   At my company, we collocate in equnix down
there.  It is a good place to colo but usually they do stuff by the cage.
 My suggestion would be to find someone with space there and colo with them.
 They have the best/cheapest bandwidth.  I used to work in the hosting
industry and have some insight if you want to sit and talk about it next
time you see me.  I have heard good things about softlayer as well and if
you need some help with your server, I can help with that too!  I also
happen to have a dedicated box doing not too much and I host various sites
for people in the community, if you want me to host for you, I am sure it
could be arranged and I would be more than happy to scale as necessary for
you.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Thanks for the info!
>
> Mitch.
>
>
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> From: drorex at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:02:20 -0800
>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] colo in and around SF?
> To: maltman23 at hotmail.com
>
> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>
> http://he.net/ in Fremont has some incredibly decent prices for
> colocation, and while it's not in SF, it's close enough that you can drive
> out there if something needs manual fixin'. I think I saw a quote of like
> $1000/month for an entire rack full of your equipment with a 100mbit
> dedicated line. This might be out of your range though. You can get a decent
> entry dedicated server (you run the entire piece of hardware, no sharing or
> virtualization going on) for around $200/mo these days. I've used
> http://www.softlayer.com/ -- no significant problems with them so far. If
> that's still too much, colocating an individual server (that you buy
> yourself) within someone else's rack usually starts around $100/month. Lower
> than that, you're looking at shared or virtualized hosting.
>
> I would recommend against EC2 unless you specifically need the ability to
> scale up and down on a moments notice (and are willing to put in the extra
> work to set it up correctly). For just a standard monthly rental, EC2 costs
> significantly more than even a leased dedicated server, never mind a
> self-colo'd server. They do have a thing where you can reserve an instance
> on a 1 year or 3 year basis, and that brings the costs down a bit to be more
> in line, but don't forget they also charge you for bandwidth & storage on
> top of the normal hourly server rental rates. Basically it's a nice
> technical solution, but not cost competitive except in some niche cases (eg
> if 50% of the time you have zero traffic, and 50% of the time you have tons
> of traffic, it might really be worth it)
>
> Also I'd recommend against anything in SF itself...you are probably paying
> more for the location than anything else. Also I personally got burned by a
> really crappy managed host in SF before, so I'm a bit biased. They're not
> around any more, or at least not under the same name. (All I'll say is this:
> When setting up our servers + a fancy SAN, the tech told us he couldn't get
> it to work with debian or centos, so he had to install gentoo.)
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> I'm considering an option to setup my own server at a colo space in the SF
> Bay Area.  Though the site normally gets a couple thousand hits a day, and
> sometimes several thousand hits, it will occassionally need some pretty big
> bandwidth.  Anyone have any opinions on who to use and not to use?
>
> Mitch.
>
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Ronald Cotoni
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