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01-26-2007, 03:43 PM #26Eternal Member
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01-26-2007, 04:50 PM #27Web Hosting Master
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01-26-2007, 04:59 PM #28Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by John[H4Y]
Update:
I decided to use their live chat and got a response back
They are not accepting new co-location customers at this time apparently.
Talk about confusing they advertise it on their site and current co-lo's can continue to add racks and things like that but new people cannot get space.Last edited by TonyB; 01-26-2007 at 05:05 PM.
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01-26-2007, 08:04 PM #29Web Hosting Guru
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If you want the best, I would recommend you look elsewhere than ThePlanet, and maybe even elsewhere than C4D. If you are talking about $50 million per year in sales, that is what, $1 Million per week? $143,000 per day? About $5900 per minute? If my math is correct.
If you truly, want the very best, then figure out how to get into the building or very near the building that houses the MAE in Dallas (see http://www.mae.net/fac/mae-central.htm) and figure out who is closest or even in the same building. From there you just need to be sure that they have multiple providers and that they use BGP, etc. all the standard things you would check out.reliable colocation ... Dedicated Servers | Dedicated Server VMs | FAST links to Vitelity.com and Conexiant.net
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01-26-2007, 08:12 PM #30Web Hosting Master
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MrZillNet, just curious; why MAE? I'm not sure if anyone even uses the MAEs anymore. Most of the Tier 1 providers peer privately at Equinix I believe. I would say most interconnection happens either at an Equinix or a Carrier Hotel. Square, rectangle.
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01-26-2007, 09:05 PM #31Newbie
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lockbull, great read.
pretty much everything was good today.
I guess Friday brings out the intelligent ones!
finally a thread with some great input!
Thanks again,
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01-26-2007, 10:00 PM #32Managed Hosting Expert
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Originally Posted by Kyle Keith
Umm, no. The failure rate of small businesses is much higher than midmarket and Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies. The day Enron crashed there were probably hundreds of small businesses that went under; Enron was a very unique case in any regards. Large publicly traded companies are much more transparent than small private companies; if a customer has concerns on their vendor's financial status it's all out there to be viewed. I've worked on several projects for large companies, and if a vendor wasn't publicly traded and it was an important part of the infrastructure, they'd routinely require certified financial statements and/or funding documentation (under NDA of course). This board is littered with the horror stories of customers getting shut off and being locked out of their equipment by small operators unable to pay their bills, having family difficulties, etc. That's not going to happen with a large company; they don't simply shut down overnight.
I don't want the above to come off as anti-small business, because I'm definitely not. I've worked at Fortune 500 companies as well as 5 person startups, and certainly don't have a preference for working in a large organization. But I think alot of people here seem to have this anti-large business vibe, implying or directly stating that going with a smaller operation is always better and leads to better service. And that's simply not the case and ignoring some of the important elements that go into some customer's decision making process, such as financial solvency, size/scale, stability, etc. These factors are important to some people, and in my experience I've had plenty of small companies offer horrible service and large companies bend over backwards even if it wasn't a large account.
Datacentres are different, datacentres cost a lot of money, you aren't going to be getting a family that decided to build a datacentre, these are large organisations who have a properly planned and managed business, they probably have to borrow money or attract investors in order to fund their startup and for that need a very solid business plan. This is why I am saying no matter the size of the facility and how much money they are turning over, you are likely to see a simular financial status.
You also make another good point with regards to big companies being worse than smaller companies, etc. I think it all really boils down to personal experience.
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01-27-2007, 01:36 AM #33Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by MrZillNet[QuickPacket™] [AS46261]
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01-27-2007, 03:22 AM #34Newbie
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Originally Posted by RazorBlue - Dan
Well actually no. according to my confrence call with an Equinix account manager today this thread has helped me a lot!
I like the idea of not worrying who the datacenter peers with when selecting the datacenter. With Equinix IDC i can buy bandwidth from whoever I want.
this is a pretty good thing because if a client wants lots of bandwidth i could purchase from cogent for somewhere around $30/meg.
I would probably purchase from InterNAP or level3 or i dont know... when it comes down to it I will have to decide on that but it makes it much easier.
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01-27-2007, 07:17 AM #35Junior Guru
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Cogent would be more around $10-$20 mark, assuming 100mbit+ commits. Quite a few would be aswell in Equinix Chicago/Ashburn at least.