Colo4Dallas Vs. Zogmo -- Bandwidth
Apr 12, 2007
getting a 1/4th rack from either Colo4Dallas or Zogmo. So far, both have been great in answering pre-sales questions and they both have great reviews as far as support goes.
My question comes down to more of the networking side. Currently, Colo4Dallas uses Level 3, InterNap, and Time Warner. Zogmo uses Cogent and Verio. I know that Cogent gets its bad rep from providers overselling their bandwidth, but are they really a good bandwidth provider as a primary provider? From what I have heard, InterNap has a better network, so it would seem that Colo4Dallas has much better bandwidth operation going.
Does anyone have any comments as to which network would have better connection speeds and uptime? I'm not necessarily looking for the better deal cost wise, but I'm looking for the better network/support.
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Apr 3, 2007
I know C4D is a very good provider already. Searching about Zogmo, it seems no bad reviews at all. Houston or Dallas? Which one do you recommend? Going with Zogmo will save more money, especially with their current promotion
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Mar 27, 2008
I've fire off several email to sales asking about coloing a single server and got no reply whatsoever. are these two providers too big now to talk to a small fish?
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Jun 14, 2009
I am looking to a add a GIGE right now in Colo4Dallas.
Which provider would give me the best bang for my buck?
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Jun 3, 2007
I’m writing a review on Zogmo. We have only been with them for a few weeks, so this is more of an initial review of them.
Note: We have moved our equipment to Zogmo from Corporate Colocation (see other thread) over the past few weeks.
Background:
After spending a month and a half or so doing research on some colocation providers in Texas, I ended up choosing Zogmo. They had some great reviews here on WHT and Linn was always available to answer any questions that I had, even when places like Colo4Dallas were closed.
Sales:
Overall, Linn is a great person. He was always available via phone or email anytime of the day, which is something that was pretty important to me. There was a little bit of a delay in getting the contracts sent out to me and the initial setup was a little slow. I pulled my launch date a little close, but once I was in contact with Scott at Zogmo he was able to fill me in completely and communicate a launch date and status. At the time of sending my servers, I didn’t have my IP’s but the technical support guys at Zogmo got that all setup for me free of charge. As apart of my rack, I should have received a remote reboot port but they didn’t have one on hand, so they had to order one. But, we are still waiting for it to come in (The only thing I wasn’t completely satisfied with, but everything else makes up for it). I think that Linn just got a little too busy when we were finalizing the contract portion, but he was very lenient and he did work with me to get things done. Overall, I would rate sales a 9.2/10
Technical Support:
Overall, it’s the best I’ve seen so far. I’m able to get a hold of someone 24/7, which is very nice. The techs there are very knowledgeable and any of my questions are immediately answered or passed onto someone who would know. For the past few weeks I have been working with Scott at Zogmo on getting my rack setup and some miscellaneous issues. He has done a great job with keeping me updated and he went the extra mile every single time to make sure that there wasn’t a better way to fix something and to make sure it was fixed properly. Overall, I would rate technical support a 9.8/10.
Datacenter:
They defiantly did a superb job at setting up the datacenter. Everything is very neat and clean, and the datacenter is kept very cool. When they setup my first two servers for me, things were very neatly setup on my rack. I like to have things organized to an extent and have everything recorded in case I need it, and they obviously express the same desire. All the racks were kept closed and locked and they keep records of those coming in and out of the datacenter, so I felt as if my machines were secure. They also had a nice bench setup with a variety of tools and supplies that I was able to use (Not something you see often). Linn had no issues answering any questions that I had and he was happy to show me around the building. They defiantly have a very sound operation and I have been very pleased with my visit to their datacenter. I will give them a 10/10 so far.
My Visit
I spent a couple days in Houston, so I could get my servers setup on my rack. When I first arrived in Houston, Linn was happy to pick us up and take us out to dinner. They made me feel as if we were a huge client, when in fact we are one of the smaller fish in the pond. Without a doubt, everyone at Zogmo knows what customer service is and how it should be done – It seems that’s a little hard to come by these days. I was very impressed with the overall experience and I can say that my switch from Corporate Colocation was a good one.
Overall, I can say my experience with Zogmo has been great. I would defiantly recommend them to anyone looking for colocation in Houston. You won’t be sorry.
I will do a more detailed review of them a few months down the road, when we have had a little more experience with support and their network.
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Dec 8, 2007
Does anyone know if they have power limits? Ie if I pay for 4u of space, can I throw in a dual xeon system with 16 drives and have them not complain? I'll call them monday, but in the meantime I am just curious if anyone is doing something similar. I don't see anything about power limits on the site.
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Jan 24, 2008
Does anybody have any colocated servers in colo4Dallas DC? Are you close enough to visit this DC and do you visit often?
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Feb 25, 2008
This will be an ongoing review on my experience with Colo4. I will update it as time goes on. Our experience comes from having rented servers for the past few years and wanting more server and more control, at less cost. Going colo made a lot of sense to us, so we finally took the plunge.
We first approached C4D six weeks ago after reading the reviews posted here. The initial phone call with Patrick Chapa was pleasant, but brief. I really just wanted to get down pricing and learn a little bit more about the facility.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. We were ready to make the server purchase, so it was time to nail down all the details regarding the contract. Gave Patrick a call back.
He was very straightforward, which I very much appreciate. He listened to what we needed, and made suggestions based on that, without trying to push anything onto us we didn't need. In the end, we still came in $500 less than our monthly budget (Patrick knew our budget all along, and I have to think he could have charged us more based on this knowledge, but didn't). We ended up going with a full rack, 2x 20a power drops, 10Mbps premium, 20Mbps value. C4D also provided two remote access APC PDU's and a 2960G switch with a hot backup.
Contract was signed and immediately a ticket was setup in their support area asking all kinds of initial setup questions. We also went on and placed the order with Dell for the servers (Friday afternoon at 3pm EST) and to our suprise, all servers arrived at C4D on Tuesday afternoon around 2pm EST. The switch C4D was providing arrived a few hours later. By 10pm EST the switch was setup, as were the pdu's, servers and their individual drac's.
The two support people I've dealt with so far have been Marc U. and Ricky V. (won't post their last names in case they don't want them posted). They have both been very helpful, even answering a couple of pretty silly questions on my part.
I put in a new ticket this morning and it was answered within 8 minutes by Ricky, with a promised resolution time of 1.5 hours (there's no real rush on this particular issue).
I'd give Patrick a score of 10 (1-10 scale). He was a true pleasure to work with. I'd also give post-sales support (so far) a 10.
The only thing I wish C4D had -- and I know I am certainly in the minority here -- is an MCSE or MCSA on-site, or at least a list of references to local providers that have been approved by C4D. In our business (vacation rentals), we have many homeowners who are out of town and have no idea which local vendors they can trust. We provide a pre-screened list of vendors for them and it is something they greatly appreciate.
So far, no regrets at all going from renting servers to colo, and no regrets going with C4D.
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Sep 1, 2007
if someone can suggest a colocation company with better support than Colo4Dallas. I have been with them for a few years now. Our server was down all last night. The only way to report that is through their web-based ticketing system.
If tickets could be created with an email, I can trigger an email if my monitoring company reports that server is down but they don't allow that. I also had a bad experience with firewall support they provided. My server was down for two days because they did not do any tests after making changes. They did apologize for screwing it but that's about it.
Is this to be expected from COLO companies. Am I expecting too much from a Colo company? Are there colo companies in DFW Metroplex that have better support?
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Feb 10, 2007
I want the absolute best quality possible, Im open to other providers also
ips and about 5-10 servers tower based
1-5mbps
I honestly cant decide Ive used both of the above and am torn between this
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May 2, 2007
Is there anyone here using Cogent network at Colo4Dallas? I have a request for file transfer hosting, dont need premium network.
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May 1, 2007
I just got a notice from Leslie at Colo4Dallas that they are raising their rates by 20% effective June, 2007. Did anyone else get this notice yet today? And in order to get the lower price (20% increase), I will have to sign a 12 month contract. So for example, my 1/2 rack will go from $399 to $478, or if I choose to stay month to month, the new rate will be $600.
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Apr 3, 2009
I have a Sonicwall NSA 3500. Does anyone know if you can use it to create bandwidth charts of Network Objects (e.g. IPs or Groups of IPs)?
I am thinking something like Cacti, but I don't know the code to pull that info or if it's even technically possible.
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Jul 29, 2008
which case is more preferred: a shared web hosting service with unlimited space/bandwidth, or a dedicated one with limited space/bandwidth?
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Nov 27, 2006
Hey can anyone tell me How the whole bandwidth thing works? like lets say..if i get 100k views a month, how much bandwidth would that take?
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Jun 13, 2007
How will I assign the bandwidth for a VE in virtuozzo power panel. I could not find any fileds that corresponds to bandwidth in the steps during creation. I could find how to restrict memory(vmguarpages) and disk space. But where will I assign the bandwidth that a VE can use.
Also what is this bandwidth rate 8kb/s or so?
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Dec 27, 2008
Now I keep very close tabs on my site stats. Just tonight one of my sites suddenly showed 167gb for "traffic not viewed".
That was a jump from 5gb over the course of a day.
That was done in 604877 pages and 607138 hits.
Can someone explain to me what "traffic not viewed" actually is within AWSTATS.
Next I located where most of the bw went and it appears to be http code 206 showing 159gb. My latest visitor report for the addon domain only showed one ip with an odd couple direct requests. The referring site was my own cpanel but registered to a ip in India.
How can i locate where the leak is, latest visitors isn't being much help, I have since denied the india ip which i suspect was the problem maker. How can I prevent instances such as this in the future? Being a streaming video site I have the bw to spare but it is still a bit un-nerving.
Now on top of everything Virtuozzo isn't showing anything of the sort, what do i believe?
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May 5, 2009
I like the LSN server company and have a server there that I plan to keep forever, they do a great job just that I am confused about their bandwidth. Also the prices aren’t exact!
Just wondering what everyone else here thinks about this:
So... LSN are doing a Q9300 server at the moment for $130 “ish” with 2TB of bandwidth. Now let’s say someone wants an extra 0.5TB of bandwidth they pay around $50 for it and if they want 1TB they pay about $95.
So you buy a server for $130 and get 2TB of bandwidth and also the costs of the hardware, space, power is covered for the hardware. Yet they charge nearly the same price for 1TB extra to a single server, which uses no extra space, hardware or power. Another thing is they charge $25 server to pool the bandwidth between your servers.
So what I see:
2 Servers 4TB B/W @ $260 + $50 (pooling charge) = $310
1 Server 3TB B/W @ $230
1 Server 4TB B/W @ $300
So as you can see from the above you can get twice the space, RAM, CPU and Power for only $10 more? Surely it costs them more than the $10?
Also my final point is LSN have a private network, that is not bandwidth monitored and your servers can use, I asked LSN if you could tunnel the traffic from one server to another, their answer was “yes if you have the technical knowledge to do so”... Well that would get rid of the $50 pooling costs... making it actually alot cheaper to get two servers.
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Apr 19, 2009
I'm looking to get a VPS offshore (please look at my other threads/posts to learn why) primarily for email for 4 or 5 domain names (most of which I'd download to my desktop but would also backup on the server) as well as perhaps to run a virtual desktop through and/or store some data.
For ease of use (for ME at least), I'd install (or have installed) a CP and probably run Centos 5 or Debian as the OS on the VPS. I won't be running websites from the VPS and I'll be the only user.
I've seen offers of all types related to bandwidth but, in some countries, bandwidth is expensive and they offer little as a result. How do I determine how much bandwidth I need for what I want to do and how do I know what's too little?
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Jun 5, 2009
I have a server with a 10Mbps connection. Is there a way to limit the connection of my VPSs?
Lets say I have 10 VPS on that server, is there a way to limit them to 1Mbps each? Or do something like:
VPS_01 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_02 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_03 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_04 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_05 = 1Mbps
VPS_06 = 1Mbps
VPS_07 = 1Mbps
VPS_08 = 1Mbps
VPS_09 = 2Mbps
VPS_10 = 2Mbps
And/Or is there a way to monitor the data transfer of each VPS (how many GB/month)?
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May 13, 2008
I've found a colocation company that gives me as the default 1.544Mbps as the initial bandwidth. I think this is OK for me most of the time, the problem is their bandwidth isn't really 'burstable', and If I want to expand to more bandwidth, my options are something like buying another T1's worth muxed in for $250.
Is this strange? Old-fashioned? Should I be worried about this?
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Mar 31, 2008
i'm not familiar with colo. help this noob out.
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Oct 23, 2008
I have a dedicated server and I would like to know how much bandwidth I use each month, this information is not provided in the control panel, is there any way to find out?
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Sep 11, 2007
my plesk control panel for my dedicated server and with all 3 of my domains FTP and HTTP transfers I'm getting below 500MB this month. However, GoDaddy's control panel says that I'm using 486GB. So where could the other 499.5 GB of bandwidth be coming from? I don't have that much email going on. No file attachments or anything.
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Jan 6, 2007
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what is tis error?:
my monthly bandwidth ussage and Partial Content 206 erros is same. what does it mean?
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Feb 5, 2007
Is it better to pay for 95th percentile or (what ever that is) is it better to pay per GB used.
I pay per 100GB used and I can upgrade it at anytime during the month which makes it very easy to manage but I would like to more about the differences here.
My issue is and not really that big of one but when I have paid for 400GB and then on the last day of the month I go to 410GB and have to buy 100GB more so I do not get charged overages. I end up with 90GB left unused which someone is banking my cash on.
Besides that I think this really works well for me.
Which way do most co-lo users pay?
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Jan 25, 2007
Hello all, I run a popular Canadian site called CKA at www.canadaka.net
I am trying to improve the performance of the site and I am looking at getter another server to offload many of the other smaller sites I also host on my main Dual Xeon rackserver. At the same time I am looking for a new Colocation host, because I feel im paying way too much at my current host.
But something I am confused about is how much bandwidth I need. I am not talking about bandwidth in the data transfer sense, but in the connection speed.
Many hosts have options/packages ranging from 1Mbps to 100Mbps. Many packages with 1,3,5,10Mbps are "unmetered" where are 100Mbps is usualy metered. I'm not sure what speed I need for my site so that there is no bottleneck at peak times. Because the price difference changes a lot between these options, so if a 10Mbps won't have any noticable difference over a 3Mbps, why pay more?
I'm not really that imformed on all this, but i have MRTG setup on my server here: [url]
so someone more knoledable than me might be able to better acess what I need?
As far as data transfer, the server uses between 300GB - 500GB a month.
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Aug 5, 2007
I am interested in colocating somewhere in the US. I'm looking for cheap bandwidth, like cogent, but tons of it, like 100-1000mbits. Let me know where I can find the best deal for 100 and 1000mbits.
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Sep 13, 2007
I've always wondered this. Where does bandwidth ACTUALLY come from, and how do they get it? Why is some more expensive than others?
I've looked on Google and Wikipedia but I couldn't really find anything explaining it.
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Jan 19, 2008
I have a question that's been bugging me for a few months now (which has gotten worse as traffic increases). I run a site that gets some decent traffic (about 9-10M pageviews per month), and is mostly made up of HTML pages with a lot of images (some pages have about 200k of images, others have maybe 1.5-2MB of them). I have a dedicated server that has 2TB of bandwidth per month, and I'm quickly approaching the 2TB point... what should I do?
Normally, I'd buy more bandwidth... but the host I have charges $400/month for 10mbps unmetered bandwidth -- more than the cost of the server each month! What other options do I have?
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Aug 7, 2006
I'm just wondering how much bandwidth a month you guys use. I use about 500 to 1gig as month.
What about you?
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