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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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Ubuntu server monitoring

I'm about to begin to colocate a server and I'm looking for lightweight server monitoring. From those of you with experience, what kind of monitoring should I look for? What do I want to avoid?
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Colocation sharing

I know it might sound a bit bizzare but does anyone know some where that people can share a dedicated or colocated host? Basically buying a server and paying for colocation in a data centre is much cheaper than paying for shared or dedicated hosting…
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Datacenter Reviews

Anyone know of site that has a good amount of datacenter reviews? I have looked at datacentertalk.com and webhostingstuff.com , but I didn't find much on those sites.
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What type of Firewall appliance for website co-location?

We are moving a high traffic site (20Mb/s - 80Mb/s) to a co-location instead a dedicated server at a hosting company. As part of the infrastructure build-out we are deciding between buying a FortiGate 110C or a capable used 1U Server and installing…
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general info on colocation

Just some quick questions on colocation and what things to look out for. When looking for a colocation facility, what are things I should be looking for? What are the differences between a cheap facility and a high end one? PS. how many servers can…
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Server Colocation vs AWS for Hospital System

I have created a software solution for use by hospitals. It uses PHP / MySQL and cannot be compiled into binaries. A hospital that is interested in licensing this software is asking for the PHP code to be hosted on a server that they own, where…
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Need a good colocation host

I'm looking for a good collocation host in Los Angeles. I've looked at quite a few hosts, but found precious few reviews. Has anyone had particularly good or bad experiences that can point me in a good direction? We will be starting out with 2U's…
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How do I configure the iDRAC on a static IP?

I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 in colocation. When I set it up at home, the machine was assigned two IP's from my router (using DHCP): one for the OS and one for the iDRAC. Now that the server is in colocation, I have a very annoying problem... I have…
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How does Colocation work in regards to actual machine hosting?

I'm new to the subject, so I apologize in advance if this is a basic no brainer question, but what I would like to know is that generally speaking, does Colocation provide for you in terms of hosting the actual machine? Do they just provide a spot…
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Moving co-location facility (managed network to unmanaged)

Our current co-location facility provides a managed network environment (e.g. firewall, etc.) for our servers. We are considering a new co-location facility that offers us more rack space and higher bandwidth, but it doesn't come with all the…
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Is there anything I can do with a software RAID 1 on linux to workaround temporary 'bad' sectors?

Basically I have two identical hard disks that are in perfect working order, they just don't have the vibration tolerance they need for the environment they are in. (I am making an educated guess that this is the cause). The disks are in RAID 1…
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Understanding IPMI - colo monitor required?

Im preparing to purchase a slew of servers from a vendor that touts 'IPMI 2.0' on the main board. I haven't bought any hardware in some time and I'm coming from a Dell/DRAC world where I need a KVM switch to do local logins. Does IPMI give me this?…
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Active Directory domain membership for a colocated server and its hosted VMs

I will be setting up a single hardware to be colocated in a data center to host several Hyper-V guests, all of which will have Windows Server 2012 installed as the operating system. I will be managing and monitoring the applications and VMs from my…
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What does it mean - to get billed to the 95th percentile at $x.xx per meg?

I got a quote from a colo, saying "I could do 3U, the power and 20 megs burstable to 100 for $250 a month with each additional meg billed to the 95th percentile at 6.50 per meg..so you would have he ability to burst if you needed it but not…
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Network equipment to provide firewalling, switching, and redundancy

What kind of networking equipment would you recommend for a set of hosted Web servers, given these circumstances: Current Situation There are two web servers in colocation, in a dedicated closet. This closet is reached by exactly one Gigabit…
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