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Colocation is leasing space for one's own servers or racks of servers in a datacenter owned by another entity.

Colocation is leasing space for one's own servers or racks of servers in a datacenter owned by another entity.

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Secure Colocation Kiosk

I am looking to create a secure colocation kiosk so that customers can confirm http, ping, ssh etc. This would include just a browser, ssh client (possibly firessh firefox addon), and possibly MTR/traceroute tool. It would be locked down, and only…
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Co-location vs. cloud hosting

We have a decent-sized server estate: several ProLiants, plus IBM BladeCentre and SANs running a VMWare environment. Due to an imminent premises move, we're not going to have enough space for a server room, so I've been looking at moving everything…
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Are Colocation Cross Connects Worth While

We currently operate three clusters of collocated machines in different data centers. Recently, I became aware that our newest data center will offer to cross connect us to a bandwidth provider free of charge. In the past, I never really…
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Colocation near EC2

Does anyone know any colocation providers near the Amazon's US EC2 facility(ies)? I'm needing to colocate a couple servers that need to be able to connect with EC2 with the lowest latency possible. I can't even find where their facilities are... Any…
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Should HA hardware be in separate cabinets?

I want to host (co-located) a service at a Pier1, Q9 or some similar hosting facility. Is it best practice to put my failover hardware in separate cabinets, and in your experience, will the hosting provider allow this? My concern is that if…
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Planning to move servers from one colo to another

We're not very pleased with our current colocation provider and so we're looking to move to a different company in a different city. Our business is an online school that's accessed world wide (which means we need 24x7 availability to our…
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Installing an OS from a netbooted Linux image

Let's say that you're working on a strange machine with these limitations: You don't have physical access at all. You get a serial console, and a network. You get one of six Linux installs to work with, and A network-booted Debian install that…
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Firewall for servers at a colo?

I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest Cisco/Fortigate/Juniper/whatever firewall? I don't need anything fancy, pretty…
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Ideas for a Linux solution to use as much of 95th percentile bandwidth as possible?

Update: I'm looking for an automated "95th percentile bandwidth limiter". I was originally hoping for something part of the traffic shaping code in the kernel but I think it doesn't exist. I'm aware that I can manually limit at 3Mbps and be safe,…
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Datacenter Colocation Phone

In my cage I don't get good enough phone reception. A phone that goes over the network also doesn't seem ideal for when I am working on the network. Do people have traditional phones delivered to their cages? I am wondering what my options are.
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Strategy to allow emergency access to colocation crew

I'm setting up a server at a new colocation center half way around the world. They installed the OS for me and sent me the root password, so there's obviously a great amount of trust in them. However, I'm pretty sure I don't want them to have my…
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hosting, which one to choose? shared, vps, dedicated, colo?

I have a local centos setup with the following installed. Ive got kind of used to my local server (i like setting up my own servers) and would like to find the easiest way to replicate it online. I need to keep it v cheap to begin with, but it could…
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When colocation provider asks what my market is what do they mean?

I am looking into colocation services and was asked "what my market is." Does this refer to what my application is, what my requirements are or both?
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Colocation payment policy? - does it depend on electricity?

I've used a colocation service for about 3 months. This is my first touch to run web servers in a data center, so I don't have any idea and information about server hosting (or colocation). Now, I'm running 15 1U servers in a full-rack because the…
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How do I know how much power a server will need - for colocation

I'm trying to figure out my colocation needs and one requirement is the power usage of a server. Most colocation providers give you the option of between 0.4 and 1 amps per U server. How should I go about working out how much power a server would…
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