How Do I Find the Best Local Colo for Me?

scottalanmiller

What if you want the local co-lo as a "hot" site

Then you don't want it around the world as latency comes into play, but normally you would at least want it in another city if not state. For you, Fremont might make sense, or Vegas, for example. Far, but not crazy far.

scottalanmiller

If you are doing colo for your primary workload (live production) then you typically want it close-ish to you. Close enough to get latency as low as reasonable. But local isn't important at all unless you are talking Wall St. trading systems. You could be a few states away. If you are American, this normally means "your side of the Mississippi" with places like Texas, Chicago, Iowi and Missouri being good enough for either coast, which is why they are popular datacenter locations.

FATeknollogee

@RojoLoco said:

If they have a datacenter in the location you choose, QTS has been amazing for us. Highly recommended, top quality company, great facilities and service.

http://www.qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers

What size "space" are you leasing & what's the cost?

RojoLoco

@FATeknollogee we have an 8x8 cage, not sure about the rate. They rent everything from 1U rack space to multiple cages. They lease internet connectivity (carrier agnostic) by 1mbps increments. We get 1gbps up/down. They have extensive power/cooling redundancy, dry fire suppression, all the bells and whistles.

wrx7m

I guess I was thinking more of a power/climate and fire/flood perspective for up time. I don't like to travel or drive outside of my local area (LA traffic is the worst). But I may just look at offloading some things to VPC and more into Veeam Cloudconnect.

Does anyone know anything about ISWest? http://isle.net/colocation/

FATeknollogee

@wrx7m said:

I guess I was thinking more of a power/climate and fire/flood perspective for up time. I don't like to travel or drive outside of my local area (LA traffic is the worst). But I may just look at offloading some things to VPC and more into Veeam Cloudconnect.

Does anyone know anything about ISWest? http://isle.net/colocation/

I looked at ISWest.
Base monthly co-lo fees are low, but they charge for bandwidth & they have some insurance requirements.

I can always send you the proposal I have.

wrx7m

@FATeknollogee Thanks! I would appreciate that. Where else have you been looking?

FATeknollogee

@wrx7m So far, mainly in downtown LA.
I've visited http://www.quadranet.com
I'm leaning toward this Tier 4 datacenter https://www.psychz.net/colocation.html

wrx7m

@FATeknollogee Thanks.

drewlander

@scottalanmiller said:

d only ever used semi-local. W

Wow! Toronto!? In HealthcareIT (When I worked for Eclipsys) I remember some problems we had because of conflicts between PHIPA and The Patriot Act. Id feel safer with my business in Toronto too, thinking about it.

drewlander

@scottalanmiller said:

wn all of the

I lease with buyout from HP and use un-managed colo. An aged asset becomes a liability for my business continuity. However I dont think I would lease equipment from Rackspace fwiw. My aged hardware becomes dev hardware upon replacement.

thx
-d