Colocation available in Durham Region?

[Colin McGregor]

--- Anthony de Boer <adb-tlug-AbAJl/g/NLXk1uMJSBkQmQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Not to be nosy, but I do wonder why...  In both
> personal and
> > professional colo involvements, I haven't ever
> really had a reason to
> > care if the location was even in the same
> timezone.
> 
> In my experience in the business, "colo" means
> colocation of the
> customer's equipment in the datacentre, with the
> provider providing
> space, power, network access, and security.  That
> meant the customer
> would want a facility not too far away, and drove up
> the costs because of
> the security requirement (the customers would like
> it if the guy in the
> next shelf or cage doesn't accidentally elbow them,
> or "borrow" parts or
> anything like that) and because the computers were
> never the same shape
> or size so there was a fair bit of wasted space.

Well, at one past employer, they used a colocation
facility on an island in the Caribbean. This due to
legal reasons (the firm was providing support services
for on-line casinos). So, NORMALLY you would want a
colocation spot fairly close by, but there are
situations were legalities are such that keeping a
server outside Canada is a must (and the U.S. is even
less of an option than Canada...).

Colin McGregor

> The opposite, "hosting", meant rental of the
> provider's computers, with
> the customer never entering the facility, so you
> didn't need to subdivide
> your security arrangements and could really pack in
> the systems.  This
> would range from upload-only web accounts, to
> webservice accounts you could
> SSH into, to virtual machines, and upward to
> whole-machine contracts.
> 
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