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View Full Version : Visiting a COLO Center.. What to ask for..? How To TEST Lines..


EnigmaBiz
05-24-2002, 02:10 PM
I am just going by there today to get this guy off my back. I will not colo but the guy was BSing soooo much on the phone and saying about what he has and such...

Someone suggest to ask for MRGT (Multi Router Traffic Grapher (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/)) graphs and reports. Anything else I should check, ask and write down than take it back and do some research.

He's running DS3 line(s). Is it too much to ask for a test account for few days.. maybe 3-4 days. Ways to test the load to see/make sure the lines are good. I thought of running a shoutcast bouncer for few days and give out streams and test it @ about 400 streams @ 128kps and if it can handle it I would highly consider it in the future when I am ready to move.

P.S. Do not PM me or email me offering me colo because I am not interested. Plus I will never colo out of state! LMAO

FiberOptic
05-24-2002, 02:13 PM
Test accounts suck...

Giving you 3-4 days good speed isn't hard to configure in a load balancer...

Afterwards....
they can change things again...

EnigmaBiz
05-24-2002, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by FiberOptic
Test accounts suck...

Giving you 3-4 days good speed isn't hard to configure in a load balancer...

Afterwards....
they can change things again...

They do that to me and I'll @#FD$gff34 (better off, I better delete whatever I said.. before it come back and bites me in the you know what... I've gotten jacked once in the past and I sure will not get jacked again.

What the guy says... that's what I will want/get. If I was to get it. I asked him for the TOS. AUP.. all these legal crap they display on their site. They don't have any...

I go I take printscreen or better off use CamTasia and do some video capture.

I have a client that is suffering with Interland. Some of you out there might not be aware of.. but if the server or the site GOES DOWN... they are loosing thousands of dollars per day. They might shut doors on the company a week later where their 90% of income comes from e-commerce/shopping cart. That's their bread and butter the client likes to say.

I will consider helping him out to switch to his own dedicated server, very basic, may run osCommerce or phpSHOP over Miva Merchant...