Colocation Experiences

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:03:26AM -0500, Andrew Hammond wrote:
> I believe that nightmare and misery are two adjectives I would apply to 
> my experiences with managed hosting services. Having more than one 
> person (or I guess group of people) with root on a box doesn't work.
> 
> For straight colo, peer1.net has a pretty good facility at 1 Yonge St. 
> They offer 1/8th rack cabinets, which, I think, are about 6U. Last I 
> checked, their rates were reasonable.

I would assume 5U.  Most racks I have dealt with were 42U total, so 21U
for half, 10U for 1/4, 5U for 1/8.  Some places do have slightly larger
racks so you might get 6U in 1/8, just don't assume you will.

> For a serious discussion on the subject, you need to say what kind of 
> hardware you're looking to host, and how much bandwidth you're going to 
> use. You probably also want to mention what you're looking to achieve by 
> putting a box in co-lo. You mentioned in other posts

Lennart Sorensen
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