[lug] Colo Colo (hah!) Recommendations?

[George Sexton]

I'm using Indra's net in Boulder for 1 server, and I've got a 1/3rd rack 
at FRII in Ft. Collins.

FRII is a nicer facility, it's very modern, well organized, well lit, 
and well equipped. Someone is on-site 24x7. Because I'm in a shared rack 
at Indras, it's not as nice. Also, Indra's doesn't have someone on site 
24x7 like FRII does, so if you have an emergency, you've got to call a 
phone # and get someone to come out. Someone took me out by wrecking a 
network cable once, OTOH, at FRII when I was in a shared rack, someone 
dumped power on the whole rack; just the nature of a shared rack. The 
reason I'm in two colos is because I want my web/mail server to be up & 
running if my SaaS servers are down at FRII. It's only happened once, 
but it was painful.

There's Fortrust in Denver, but when I tried to go there, they had 
unreasonable contract terms for 1U colo.

On 1/2/12 7:54 PM, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> (Originally posted to the CLUE list. Some people there recommended
> posting here as well.)
>
> Hi all!
>
> I currently live in Eugene, OR, but will likely be returning to my
> childhood home of Colorado in the near future so my daughter can grow
> up near her extended family.
>
> I have a 1U server colocated at a small ISP out here which I would
> like to bring along. I'm currently paying $40 a month for 1.5Mb of
> burstable bandwidth and a 32-ip subnet. I did the owner a favor
> shortly before I started colo'ing with them, so I'm sure that's a
> friends-and-family rate. I'm not really expecting something in / near
> Denver to be competitive with that, but the closer the better. I use
> the server to run personal sites and projects, and provide
> miscellaneous services to a few clients.
>
> I'm also considering leaving it where it is, or migrating to an AWS
> instance. I like having the extra horsepower and storage space that
> owning my own box affords, so going to AWS or a VPS service would be
> my last choice. I haven't had to touch the machine since I installed
> it, so leaving it in Eugene isn't out of the question, but if I should
> need to touch it for some reason having it so far away would be a
> PITA.
>
> Anything within about a 2 hour drive of North Denver would be worth considering.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> QH
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George Sexton
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