Does anyone have a good contact or contractor that they can recommend in the vicinity of Equinix Ashburn? Preferably someone who's done work in the facility before. We're in DC4 - which is building E I believe.
While Equinix has great staff, sometimes I just need simple things like servers unpacked and racked - things that I'd prefer not to pay $200/hr. for.
I've got a cabinet @ Equinix Ashburn & need to get another one. My understanding is they're full. Does anyone know if Equinix has a new facility there yet?
View 2 Replies View RelatedVPS provider to have enough support resources to provide 24/7 contact and repairs when necessary and good connectivity to UK. So, a fully managed solution.
The Ashburn datacentres seem to have good connectivity to UK.
Any substantial VPS providers based in this area?
Is anyone aware of the current availability of colocation space at Equinix in Ashburn, VA? We are currently trying to obtain some space with them but getting my dedicated sales contact to respond is like pulling teeth! Are they so full (and thus full of themselves) that we will have to operate on THEIR terms (if at all)? At this point we are soliciting quotes from other datacenters of known lesser quality just so we can get this deployment live...
View 14 Replies View RelatedBesides contacting them directly and getting an overinflated price on 1GB of BW and 1u space, is there anyone i can contact who can set me up with better pricing in the Ashburn location? I'm in Baltimore. Washington and Ashburn is about 30 or 40min from away. Something to take into consideration.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe just signed today to move our colo to Equinix Ashburn. I'll send out an email to our customers next week, to explain the upcoming downtime for the move. We do SaaS for our own specialized software product, and all our customers are in universities.. usually professors or administrative assistants.
These people are not technical, so saying something like "really good peering" means nothing to them. However, saying "the facility is so good that Google has servers there" is something they would understand. So, who are the tenants there that an average person would know? I realize there are multiple buildings all next to each other, but I don't think it will be necessary to denote by building. Last time I toured the facility (a while ago), I saw Google and Amazon there.
how much do you pay for remote hands to datacenter?
What are the industry standards for the same?
We're currently looking for someone who can do our servers builds + network remote hands in San Jose..
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe operate a small point of presence in Atlanta, GA out of the 56 Marietta building. Its a network POP for us, with a few small customers there.
We're interested in finding a company or individual who we can contact to handle remote hands services such as hard drive installs, racking servers, attaching KVMs, nothing major.
Right now we work with TelX. Needless to say, they are extremely overpriced, and under qualified to do the job.
We are pleased to make the following announcement. All dedicated services clients will now be directly serviced by BurstNET Technologies, Inc. We have worked a comprehensive deal in order to provide you our consumers with both the technical and billing support.
All dedicated services clients will now be directly serviced by BurstNET Technologies, Inc., the data center your service is currently provided in. Nothing needs to be done at this time on your part; however we would like to make you aware of just a few things.
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Can someone recommend decently priced colocation provider in Ashburn? We are looking for level3 bandwidth as they are claimed to have good uptime. 5 boxes will be hosted there. BW consumption will be very low but we need 5 boxes as our application needs them and 1 for load balancing.
I spoke with one provider and they speak of only half rack or full rack. What is the decent per u cost? I have one quoting us 130$ per month.
i try to upload a document on my server on smart ftp i am having a problem all my document's are saved as .html or .css and when i upload i get a error and then the document goes to a transfer queue.what am i doing wrong ? im able to delete my document's but im not able to upload ?
View 0 Replies View RelatedI would like an email auto-responder to not auto-respond back to the same person twice.
I went to my webhost webmail and set an auto-responder. I tested it by sending an email to it. The auto-responders just blindly replies back with an auto-response irregardless of whether it had auto-responded back to that email or not.
Don't you think that is dangerous? Because if someone else sends me a mail with an auto responder turned on. And I have my auto-responder turned on. They would just auto-respond back and forth hundreds of time until the mail quota is reached or the server goes down. Isn't it?
How can I get a "smart" auto-responder that does not auto-respond to the same person twice?
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
But the result returned some errors. Anybody know how to interpret the following results:-
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Warning! SMART Attribute Data Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
48 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 000 000 192 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
48 Unknown_Attribute <== Data Page | WARNING: PREVIOUS ATTRIBUTE HAS TWO
140 Unknown_Attribute <== Threshold Page | INCONSISTENT IDENTITIES IN THE DATA
48 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 0
48 Unknown_Attribute <== Data Page | WARNING: PREVIOUS ATTRIBUTE HAS TWO
0 Unknown_Attribute <== Threshold Page | INCONSISTENT IDENTITIES IN THE DATA
214 Unknown_Attribute 0x00ec 000 000 255 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 812807680
214 Unknown_Attribute <== Data Page | WARNING: PREVIOUS ATTRIBUTE HAS TWO
255 Unknown_Attribute <== Threshold Page | INCONSISTENT IDENTITIES IN THE DATA
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 281474976710655
255 Unknown_Attribute 0xffff 255 255 255 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 1099511629823
This is my review for PC Smart hosting [url]
I came in contact with PC Smart Hosting when looking for a Xen-based cPanel VPS. I already had a VPS provider but they were quite expensive, their setup was something that I was doubting a bit and their financial administration was a mess. PC Smart Hosting offers various options for a cPanel VPS, so I opened up a ticket with sales for something custom.
Chris from PC Smart Hosting asked me some questions about what I was looking for and quickly came with an offer for me, a custom offer. I would get a 1GB cPanel VPS, with a Secondary DNS VPS in the US and backup space, all unmanaged. This all for a very reasonable price. I could optionally upgrade it to semi-managed or fully-managed for a very low price.
I choose to have it all fully managed. Not because I wouldn't be able to handle it myself, but their full management provides extra security, plus they harden your VPS when they install it, so it's way more secure. Add to that that really experienced people set it all up, so it's a timesaver. Besides that, I like to have it fully managed to I can get help when I don't know what to do anymore and I always think it's a good thing to have everything monitored. And the money was not something not to go fully managed for.
The VPS was created very rapidly, even though they had to place a new host machine to create it, and within 24 hours everything was up and running. The VPS is amazingly fast and up until now very stable, so I would definitely recommend PC Smart Hosting for a VPS!
I am considering getting a server from take2hosting.com. Their offer is great and sales has been very helpful and fast. Left definitely a good impression.
The downside is that they are on Cogent-only bandwidth. In the past I have really gotten something against Cogent, mainly due to one of my FDC servers being routed over Cogent and only pulling 10K/sec to Europe.
How is the Cogent network nowadays? Has it improved since a year ago? Worth considering?
From my tests the speeds are actually really great. They are located in San Jose, and I am testing speeds to Europe. For example to Surfnet Amsterdam (Cogent hands off the traffic to Surfnet in Amsterdam, so its on the Cogent network all the way) I am able to pull 2.53MB/sec. This is an incredible speed for a Westcoast<->Europe transfer. It almost makes me believe Cogent has started getting its act together.
For people who would like to test speeds, please use this test file. Especially European tests would be interesting, and it would be great if you could post where cogent hands off traffic from LosAngeles to either your network or a transit network. (In the US or Europe)
Right now I am hosting on a Level3/GlobalCrossing network @ the eastcoast. This works really well but it shows in the price. If I could combine a couple of budget boxes into one of those Quadcores it would save quite a lot. Question is: Is Cogent trustworty nowadays?
Thanks for your input
Ps. I know that hosting on a single-homed network is not the smartest thing to do. However they will add more carriers soon so this will not really be an issue. I'm expecting them to not drop Cogent tho, so my question remains
I got email notice about this:
Quote:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
Quote:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
It causes server crash and down.
I was wondering if anyone has used any of the Energy Smart servers. We've just been buying the ordinary offerings from Dell that don't have Energy Smart power supplies, but we are considering purchasing them.
View 4 Replies View Relatedto install ESET Smart Security Business Edition (NOD32) firewall and antivirus on Windows 2003 R2 32bit.
Is there any one here who did this before and is this program compatible with above mentioned windows?
Is the firewall good enough to install on the server.
Has any one had any problem with this program before?
Any suggestion on better antivirus and internet security?
I look forward to receive your answer. Your answer will be really helpful for us.
I've almost got my server ready to get shipped out to colo.
Its a HP Proliant ML570 G2, 4x2.0GHz Xeon, 4GB PC1600 DDR ECC RAM, and a Smart Array 6402 Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller card. The way I currently have the HDs configured is as follows:
Channel 1:
1x36.4GB 15k Ultra320
1x73.5GB 10k Ultra320
Channel 2:
1x36.4GB 15k Ultra320
1x73.5GB 10k Ultra320
I will add one-two more 73.5GB 10k Ultra320 drives for running in RAID 5 or 6.
The 2 36.4GB 15k Ultra320 drives are running in RAID 1. This is the array that I am performing these tests on, -not- the 73.5GB drives.
Anyway, I was a little curious about my performance.
The following tsets
I know hdparm is not really meant for running tests on SCSI disks, however here is the output:
Code:
# hdparm -tT /dev/cciss/c0d1
/dev/cciss/c0d1:
Timing cached reads: 1732 MB in 2.00 seconds = 865.91 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 320 MB in 3.01 seconds = 106.45 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Here is the IOZone output:
Code:
File size set to 4096 KB
Command line used: /opt/iozone/bin/iozone -s 4096
Output is in Kbytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
KB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
4096 4 188852 523178 658943 688853 610887 484275 572466 539010 580498 182914 471075 644937 671916
Then, just for the heck of it, I ran the tests on my little home Dell server with a ~80GB 7.2k RPM 1.5GB/s SATA drive:
Code:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1680 MB in 2.00 seconds = 839.29 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.02 seconds = 45.08 MB/sec
Code:
File size set to 4096 KB
Command line used: ./iozone -s 4096
Output is in Kbytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
KB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
4096 4 152972 1135245 1358510 2132128 1163636 1103448 1184499 1829350 1588205 490774 1006882 1378196 2104830
Can you give me a little insight on my results?
NOTE: The batteries on my Smart Array 6402 controller are DEAD and need to be replaced, they will not charge. Since they are dead, the cache (which is 128MB) will not enable itself. If this cache were enabled, would I experience much different results from the tests?
Does anyone have a POC for the facility at Filigree Court and 350 Cermak?
I have a customer who needs to speak to someone about some cross connect orders.
I am looking for small colocation space in Equinix NY2.
(There is another topic here [url]where the original poster was looking for dedi/colo in Equinix NY4; I joined that topic with the same request. But after doing my homework, I've adjusted the requirements: firstly, I need colo only, not a dedicated server; and secondly, NY2 is almost as good for my purposes as NY4. And apparently there are more providers offering colo there.)
If you know someone who has (or might have) colo space in Equinix NY2, please, could you recommend them here?
I've heard a internet bandwidth service from Equinix named Equinix direct, how about the quality of this service? Does there somebody have the experience of this service?
View 14 Replies View RelatedCan anyone recommend a reseller that offers colo or dedicated out of this facility?
View 7 Replies View RelatedLet's open those floodgates of opinion!
View 14 Replies View RelatedEquinix Secaucus NY2 (275 Hartz) seems to have cooling prolem for the last 1 hour. The whole DC becomes hot. I went out one hour ago, came back and it's so hot now. I don't have temp now, ut I think it's around 85F (up from around 65F typical).
If you are in the DC, have fun working ... I wonder how much longer I can work here Hope they fix this soon, or else......
4-5 continuous racks on the 5th or 6th floor of the Equinix Chicago facility.
I've already met with Server Central. Can anyone suggest anybody else who is in that facility? I know it might be a long shot to get that many together, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
colocating servers in the N VA market. I've read numerous recommendations on this forum for the Ashburn Equinix facility. Since it's filling up quickly I've also been looking at the SwitchandData facility in Reston. It appears to have more available space and lower prices. Does anyone have any experience with S&D and what tradeoffs should I be concerned about in looking at an S&D facility instead of an Equinix (in general or specifically those two centers)?
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