Suggestions for colocation needed

Mon May 23 15:52:19 PDT 2005

JMA wired is a joke. They're nice guys, but come on. Have you been in 
their datacenter? I ran the infrastructure
for a small company that had about 1 racks worth of gear for 2 years in 
there. One night, at about 2am, I was
out drinking with the customer's CTO, and we get a call that everything 
was down. We made our way over to
JMA to find out that they had ripped out all of the wiring in the 
datacenter, without telling customers, and everything..
I mean EVERYTHING was down for 6 hours.

If you want a REAL colocation provider, go to the opposite side of that 
block, and look at 365 Main.

365 is a great datacenter. Above.net's flagship $130M datacenter, that 
the building owner bought for a song ($2M) in
the bankruptcy sale. I run about 8 racks worth of gear for various 
customers (including my own consulting company)
there, and it's the only place besides equinix in the bay area that 
deserves my business.

Call them up, and ask for Kevin Shanahan (tell him I sent you!)

Their facilities are awesome, plus they have about 20 bandwidth 
providers in there now.

The only problems I've had with 365 was that they had a power failure, 
due to a faulty relay shutoff valve in the
cooling system.  I've never had an ISP be as professional as they were. 
Within 10 minutes of the outage they had
called us, told us what the situation was. By the time we got down there 
they were letting people into the building,
 and helped us do a controlled power-up. The shutoff valve has since 
been taken out of their infrastructure.

Since the dot-com bust there have been a lot of half-assed mom&pop colo 
providers jumping up, sniping on the
dirt-cheap facilities, but you get what you pay for.

Bruce Ferrell wrote:

> You might want to talk to JMA wired in San Francisco.  Their building 
> hosts ColoServ.  There are a number of bandwidth providers in the 
> building.
>
> I'm just a satisfied customer.
>
> Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> My company needs to expand their colocation and I am looking for
>> suggestions where to check. Our requirements are something like
>> this:
>>
>> 20'x14' cage to be able to put up to 6 HP 10000 cabinets 47U high.
>> Initial we would put 4 in but want space to be able to add 2 more.
>> For each cabinet we would need 2 circuits 40A or 50A at 208V hard
>> wired.
>> Carrier neutral would be nice but doesn't necessary have to be.
>> It needs to be a presentable colocation as our customer include
>> companies like Ford and Chase and they sometimes come by to look
>> at things.
>>
>> Our company itself sits in Menlo Park so something close would be
>> good, but we are pretty much open elsewhere in the area (our current
>> colocation is in Fremont).
>>
>> We also have a 10Mbit/sec Ethernet link to our Phoenix failover site,
>> so experiences with colos who have providers in house to provide
>> simular links would be good also.
>>
>> Looking forward for any hints :-)
>>

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