Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Colocation and Data Centers : Vericenter?

[KyleLC23]

Hello,

Has anyone here had experience with Vericenter? I know they are a large managed hosting provider according to the magazine I received in the mail today.

I believe they compete with Savvis and Internap the most, as they are very pricy. I contacted them, and they wanted $250 for 256kbps of bandwidth, which is killer.

Thank you,
Kyle Leissner

[cbtrussell]

I've been to Vericenter's primary Houston facility for a client deployment, and it was nice enough. Vericenter is primarily a managed hosting services provider, for those large clients who want their web applications to be 'hands off'. I know the facility I was in had a significant Internap pipe coming in, but there were other carriers as well. As you can probably guess, they don't really seem structured to accomodate (or compete in) the low-end colo market.

Brandon

[KyleLC23]

They seem to offer a great service from what I heard, and have over 150+ techs on staff.

I bet there network performs very well as it is a blend on UUNet and Internap.

Thanks,
Kyle

[HiVelocity]

I think they recently purchased some other big name managed hosting providers.

[KyleLC23]

Yes,

Sprint being one of them.

Thanks, Kyle

[lockbull]

They don't really compete with InterNap, as they are a fully managed service provider while InterNap hasn't moved that far up the chain. While I'd consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about the managed service space (at least the pricier ones that deal with midmarket to large companies; we've had customer deployments with most of the better known ones like Digex, Navisite, Savvis, EDS, IBM , etc.), I'd never even heard of Vericenter until I saw the press release early this year that they were taking over major portions of Sprint's hosting business. Judging by what I've read, they were a small, well run regional managed hosting player that found a good opportunity to pick up some of the scraps after too much buildout by the big boys.

$250 for 256kbps? Wow, I thought I had a bad deal at one of the aforementioned managed providers where we currently pay $300 per half a meg on commits less than 10Mbps.