Suggestions for colocation needed

Mon May 23 16:32:51 PDT 2005

Ummm... I've been in a lot of data centers in my 26 year career.  Some 
are bad, some are worse.  Maybe you look for an ISP... I dunno.  I don't.

I look for good power (did 20 hours in a data center a few years back 
due to their idiot power contractor pulling the plug to change a 
breaker) and good air conditioning.  I don't care if they have a NOC or 
not.  because they ain't gonna touch my gear anyway.

I refuse to deal with "politicians" like abovenet.  I buy my bandwidth 
separately from my real estate.  I like it like that.

I run 3 racks in JMA.  Been in there for a couple of years now.

Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> 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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