Collocated Equipment Insurance
Jan 8, 2007
Over the next year we are working to migrate all of our shared servers from leased dedicated servers to our own collocated equipment. As you can imagine it is a slow process, but we are getting there.
By this next week we will have about ten servers and a couple of switches colo'd. I am thinking it is time we looked at insuring the equipment we have colo'd and get it taken care of before we build up the volume anymore.
Is anyone able to recommend someone we may be able to contact to obtain insurance on our equipment? All of our equipment is at Colo4Dallas, in Dallas, TX split between our rack there and their secure storage room (spare parts, switch, chassis etc.).
I tried contacting our insurance company here in the United Kingdom to see if we could add it on to our office insurance but they became very hesitant when I mentioned the hardware was in Dallas, despite the fact it is probably more secure in the Colo4Dallas data center than our office.
So I guess we would be looking for a US insurance company that specializes in this type of thing. We would be looking to protect against equipment being damaged due to things like power surges, being dropped by a technician etc.
View 9 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Sep 10, 2009
i came across DC where colocation required a $3 mn insurance. I was wondering what type of insurance is this. We were just looking for a rack.
DC owners experiences appreciated. Also do customers colocating in a DC require to have insurance ? or they are normally covered by default by DC and dont need to buy insurance?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Jun 27, 2008
1. Is it worth to insurance web hosting service?
2. Have you heard about this?
3. Any insurance company offer this?
4. Has any web host been sued so far for damage to data or loss to business?
One of our data centre has reported that it has lost each and everything in fire at its place - including all instruments, servers, machines and so on. We were having 100 domains with them on our server. Our clients are very much co-operating with us.
What shall we do in this case as far as our 4 questions are concerned?
View 11 Replies
View Related
Feb 14, 2007
I am not sure is it is realistic to take out insurance against losses caused by downtime. Or perhaps insurance would merely increase the costs to such an extent that it would be better to spend more on the hosting costs, and the improved service that would buy. Has anyone considered this as an issue, because I have read on other forums that people complain of lost income due to their sites being down for a day or two, and it sounds like they just suffer the losses without any recompense?
View 10 Replies
View Related
Sep 24, 2007
I'm switching colocation facilities, but the new one requests that we have property insurance on our machines. I'm not quite sure what the reason for this is.I asked some sysadmins and it seems that this is normal practice.
I'm not a company, so getting it seems a little wasteful.
Has anyone had to buy insurance in order to use a colocation facility? Any companies anyone could recommend.
View 11 Replies
View Related
Jul 25, 2007
Couldn't you just remote access into your server from elsewhere? This would save you the hassle and cost of buying/installing/maintaing the KVM equipment?
In the rare case where you have no network access but need access to the server, then you could directly plug keyboard, monitor, and mouse into the server directly, right?
And in cases where you do have network access, couldn't you just plug in your laptop into the network in the colocation facility or wherever and remote access to the servers sitting two feet away from you?
View 14 Replies
View Related
Feb 26, 2007
We have 3 1-U servers and a 1-U UPS located in a datacenter in Vancouver. If we were also located in Vancouver, I'd probably just eBay things off. However, I'm not anywhere close to there, and I can't ask the people running the datacenter to package them up and ship them off to eBay sellers. Any suggestions for how to get rid of the equipment and maybe make some money?
I did some Googling for computers liquidators in Vancouver and didn't find much. Ideally I'd want some local firm to just show up, pick up the goods, and at some point pay me for them.
View 14 Replies
View Related
Apr 16, 2007
As I sit here typing this I have a stack of 10 1U 866MHZ P3 Servers in front of me.
Sometimes its possible to sell these off to some sorry soul on ebay, however if not ebay what else? I would hate to throw them out and I would like to think they could be used for something. Perhaps I could upgrade the hard drives and turn them into file servers, but then how could I even break even with the cost of co-location.
Specifics
P3 866MHZ
256MB Ram (up ro 512)
10GB HD
View 14 Replies
View Related
Oct 23, 2009
I've been searching Google for a few days in hopes of finding companies that take off lease server equipment (sometimes almost brand new) and auctioning it off to people.
I've been buying alot of equipment through resellers of these places but I would like to cut out the middle man expense and bid for myself.
For example. This week I purchased ten Dell PowerEdge R200's with X3220 Xeon CPU's in them. These are fairly new. I don't want to buy first generation single-core xeon servers.
Look forward to finding out who is supplying these people.
View 11 Replies
View Related
Jan 8, 2008
what is the best company i can shiped my equipment to it and they
our company outside usa and we need good company can offer full solutions
View 8 Replies
View Related
Jul 6, 2008
After a year we are here to see if we have any changes in the market of ddos protection equipment that dedicated server companies or datacenters can use to protect their networks and clients from different kinds of attacks.
If the solution you use is not listed there,
View 9 Replies
View Related
May 21, 2007
Me and my friend are looking to place a few servers for a soho (3 servers or so). We need advise as the incoming connectivity will be fiber so we need to know what do we need to receive that fiber, we opted to go for the catalyst 2950 for the switch but if there's a good fiber switch,
Fiber will be 10mbps.
View 13 Replies
View Related
Oct 21, 2009
I'm putting together a disaster recovery plan and I'm trying to come up with a quick way to get new machines in place in case of catastrophic hardware failure, e.g. two servers go down at the same time (this is an HA setup and must always remain fault tolerant). At this point I'm trying to find someone who would rent a server to me, allowing me to take physical possession of it.
Why do I need physical possession of it? The problem is that I use IP-based storage on a private network and therefore can't rely on a rented server in another cabinet, even across the aisle in the same datacenter, without adding significant complexity to my setup.
So my question, in summary, is this: What would be the fastest, cheapest and simplest way to get a new server in my cabinet in a few short hours?
My servers are going to be in Colo4Dallas, so if there's a provider there who specializes in this or has made an arrangement with you or someone you know in the past, please let me know about them. If you can think of a better way to do things (the obvious solution of investing in more servers excluded),
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 29, 2008
employees, owners, customers and everyone feel free to join in and tell us what you think.
Do you feel that your data is safe if the company manages their own servers? By manage I mean they fully own and operate their own hardware.
Or does it not matter as long as the company is a long time and known provider? Do you ask yourself this question when you look for a host?
View 11 Replies
View Related
Oct 16, 2007
What happens if you quit paying your bill, or just forget to for three months. Then you don't contact the colo. What happens with your equipment,
View 6 Replies
View Related
Dec 16, 2007
Fire sale at HE on used Cisco core router equipment
[url]
I wonder if some data center will purchase it just to hook it up for the flashing lights... would be quite impressive.
Wait a second, that was already done in North Atlanta and Las Vegas, wasnt it?
I wonder why HE didnt donate it to the tech museum in San Jose... would have been a better write off then selling it.
why I am musing so far off topic on a gorgeous Sunday morning?
View 8 Replies
View Related
