Ok.... a lot of concern lately over the future of acsdatanet ... I'm a current customer (actually two of them, two different contracts).

Are there any other resellers at the Pajo facility that people have found?

I'm looking for co-location services... I prefer to have my bandwidth and rackspace prices split out.

Obviously I don't expect others to match ACS's very low prices, but I figured doing some prep work would be good.

Just so I'm clear... I have NOT had recent problems with acsdatanet - the Pajo facility itself has worked out pretty well. Just that I want to know what other options there are at the same facility.

Thanks.

Maybe you could email alex@pajo (username at WHT) and ask him? I'm a bit busy at the moment or I'd take a ride up to Wilshire and ask (I think they have a building there).

Hi Chicken. I will contact Alex about other resellers plus I put in a sales request to Pajo itself.

Pajo seems to offer decent co-location rates themselves. They even PUBLISH their rates, wow! One of my peeves is a co-location provider who doesn't publish rates.

http://www.pajo.net/colo.html

Anyway... $99 gets you 1U and 40GB/month. For reference (and not discussion please) this is 2x what ACSDatanet is charging me. What they don't say on their web site:
-- their overage charge?
-- contract terms (length?)
-- install fee?

I'm surprised this thread hasn't recieved any other responses. It would seem that a lot of us co-location customers could benefit working out some pre-arranged deal where we could re-locate in under 12 hours if the need came up.

Personally I would like to stay with Clint @ ACS as he has done me right so far on two contracts. But if things do go sour, I want a contingency in place. My pain level is about 24 hours - I can deal with a 12 hour outage then a 12 hour relocation -- but not beyond that.

The only thing I've seen similar to that is Tera-byte's Plan B (discussed in another thread). If there isn't a rack charge for 1U, then it works out the same:

40GB x $2.50/GB = $100 (that's if you were using 40GB/mo if you used 10GB/mo, then you'd be looking at $25/mo)

And I think I've seen people offer $35/mo rack fee plus something around $2.50/GB in the ad forums before, but can't think of one in particular off hand. A request might get you some offers.

Pajo sales rep called me back today.

-- It is a burstable link and they are willing to charge in 128K increments based on 95th percentile.
-- 12 month contract.
-- No install fee

I'm waiting to get a copy of their contract for review.

128kbps on 95th-%ile is (on the average) 60% 1.6 times smalle than 128kbps billed on average ... So, you may only be getting 25GB ... But then again, a capped 128kbps is very slow, I would think?

Best of wishes for you servers at acsdatanet ...

cheers,
:beer:

not cap - I said burstable. Like 3Mbps or more... just that they charge your bandwidth in 128K increments 95th instead of "$x.xx per GB" terms.