dedicated hosting in GTA?

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/3/05, Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Fernando, are you a Windows user? There is no reboot button on Linux 
> machines. And I can tell you, as a sort of Linux sysadmin, that it 
> happened once in my life only that I had to turn off the power from a 
> Linux server.
> 
> Hence, yes, I am willing to drive 10 hours. The costs in Canada for 
> colocation are from the planet Moon. Why?

Come on, now.

We have systems in India, and have found it invaluable that the HP
hardware supports a method for allowing us to see the "boot console"
all the way from North America.

The machines don't get rebooted all that often, but if there's a disk
failure, there's a need for that sort of thing.  I'm certainly not
getting on a plane to India if a machine needs rebooting!!!

It may be that particularly simple Linux configurations do not need
rebooting; as you get into complex stuff like md, or disk array
"multipath," it turns out to be somewhat more needful :-(.

Furthermore, there's something about Murphy's Law...  If you have the
capability to power cycle machines remotely, you'll almost never need
to.  If you don't, you'll find you need it :-(.  In colo situations,
it is extremely convenient to have remotely-accessible power switches
and consoles.

It'll be particularly valuable if you have to stick the hardware in
another country because it's cheaper there...

I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some cheap options out in Mississauga.
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