We are in need of some space in the Switch and Data facility located at 60 Hudson, NYC. This is not negotiable, it absolutely has to be at 60 Hudson in Switch and Data.
We don't need a full cabinet, a 1/4 cab would suffice (or even really 2U - 4U).
Can anyone recommend a company that has space in that facility that is willing to sell this small of an amount?
Trying to find better pricing on a OC-3 / OC-12 link between One Wilshire in LAX and 60 Hudson St in NYC. Looking for pricing on both protected and unprotected circuits.
So far my best pricing is from XO, but I was hoping that someone had a lit circuit that I might not have thought of.
Looking for wavelengths, not IP or I would go with Cogent Layer 2.
Switch And Data, a provider of network neutral data centers and colocation services, just had an IPO yesterday. They filed to sell about 1/3 of their shares priced at the high end ($17). I was wondering if anyone here had personal experience with the company, and could offer some insight on how they stack up versus Equinix and other competitors.
Switch And Data trading symbol: SDXC
Equinix trading symbol: EQIX
Equinix has been up a lot this year and has a huge market cap of 2.3Bil ($80/share), with revenues of 269Mil, gross profit 63.7Mil, net income -49Mil.
I calculated Switch And Data has around 35.9 million total shares, which puts its current market cap at around 720Mil ($20/share). I couldn't find any 2006 numbers, but in 2005 they had 105Mil revenues and -11.3Mil net income.
How comparable are these two companies? Does SDXC deserve to trade at a comparable level to EQIX? What do the experts at WHT think?
Recently, we expanded our space with Switch and Data. They didn't have any cabinets physically next to our current ones, so they offered us cross-connects with an NRC only (no MRC) between our own existing space and the new. (Of course I didn't get this on the same 1-year contract as everything else.) After a few months, I noticed they've been billing us for them, so I contact our rep. Apparently she "wasn't authorized" to do that, so after some heated emails they're removing the charges to date and charging us the MRCs moving forward. It's over $7K a year for the two.
They also upped their minimum labor charge, so it now cost $175 to have them sign for a FedEx or have any other minimal amount of work done. We have an on-site employee who manages our equipment, but obviously he won't sit there waiting for UPS/FedEx a few times a month. Two instances last month there were employees on site and it cost an hour of labor for them to physically walk two packages onto the data center floor from the front office.
While installing another cross-connect recently, they knocked our patch panel just enough to disconnect a fiber. They charged us for the two hours it took to debug and rectify the issue. The on-site techs assertion was that it must have been "loose" to begin with - of course it worked fine for 6 months prior. You would think a sales person would side with you in a case like this, but they wouldn't budge.
They must be really keen on driving away customers. What really sucks is the connectivity available at their facilities is so amazing. I would brush it off as the cost of doing business if they were up front on all these things, but they aren't.
Let's open those floodgates of opinion!
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I've got a dedicated with Centos 4.x, WHM / Cpanel. I have problem when create new account, this is error:
Setting up Mail & Local Domains...localdomains...valiases ...vdomainaliases...vfilters......Done
Configuring DNS...Bind reconfiguring on server using rndc
Error reconfiguring bind on server: rndc: error: /etc/rndc.key:7: 'options' redefined near 'options'
rndc: could not load rndc configuration
looking for resellers at switch and data in miami. need a half rack and bandwidth from cogent and xo for 90 days starting march 1st.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm in the final stages of bidding on a 10-rack cage, it's come between Internap and Switch & Data.
I know the good about hosting with both of them. Who can tell me the bad?
Please, don't email me telling me about your datacenter, because I'm not looking at any other providers this late in the game.
Here's my plan: colo servers for VoIP in either Switch and Data NYC or Telehouse NYC (or possibly Equinix Newark NJ). Purchase bandwidth from InvisibleHand.net, who can give me a direct connection of IP bandwidth from DTAG DeutscheTelecom
People say DTAG has awesome bandwidth, and I know I can get it pretty cheap from InvisibleHand.
Any comments on this plan? Which of the 3 locations is best for the price? I don't want to buy from a reseller (since they may go under). I want my colo direct from whoever owns it like Switch and Data.
We currently have a OK solution to monitor and graph our client bandwidth at the switch port. It's a great product, but we have been expanding quickly and we are looking for a solution that is a bit more scalable and user friendly. Any recommendations?
Basically we want software to do the following:Monitor/log bandwidth in/out
Graph data in some way shape or form
Provide a web interface for users to login and view bandwidth usage
Scalable and cost effective
Easy to use
Windows or Linux
If you don't feel comfortable divulging what you use, just PM me. Also, we are already aware of MRTG.
a sales told me i can buy two switch and do series connection,
then if one fail,another will continue to work,
it will take high HA,
but i still can not understand how to do it and work,
could you know what it is?
This is more aimed at providers but do you allow partial upgrades on RAM/Disk/Bandwidth?
I'm asking as we have one brand which is fully automated which I refuse to do partial upgrades on as its done as a budget and if a user needs more they need to upgrade to the next package but it is budget.
On our more expensive brands we do allow partial upgrades
I have a Windows VPS hosting account. Plesk control panel. I use PHP for my website. With this setup how can I Rewrite my url's from
www.domain.com/page.html?x=param1&y=param2
to
www.domain.com/page/param1/param2
When I try to search I only find URL rewrite for Linux based vps using php or windows based vps using dotnet or php
Am having a lot of this in my apache status in both, a dedicated server and a vps, i think is affecting our load,
example of just some of the ones that appear in the apache status (whm)
Code:
70-0 - 0/0/21 . 0.00 18726 0 0.0 0.00 0.17 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
71-0 - 0/0/33 . 0.00 18730 0 0.0 0.00 0.20 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
72-0 - 0/0/93 . 0.00 18731 0 0.0 0.00 0.83 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
73-0 - 0/0/17 . 0.00 18734 0 0.0 0.00 0.07 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
74-0 - 0/0/24 . 0.00 123794 0 0.0 0.00 0.13 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
75-0 - 0/0/30 . 0.08 123710 0 0.0 0.00 0.07 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
76-0 - 0/0/9 . 0.00 123783 0 0.0 0.00 0.03 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
77-0 - 0/0/10 . 0.01 123709 0 0.0 0.00 0.01 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
78-0 - 0/0/19 . 0.00 123748 232 0.0 0.00 0.17 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
79-0 - 0/0/129 . 0.00 123793 0 0.0 0.00 1.77 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
80-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 177694 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
81-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 177693 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
82-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 177692 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
83-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.07 177638 0 0.0 0.00 0.02 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
84-0 - 0/0/13 . 0.16 177609 0 0.0 0.00 0.03 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
85-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 177691 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
86-0 - 0/0/12 . 0.08 177616 0 0.0 0.00 0.01 127.0.0.1 server.domain.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
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I backup my accounts via cpanel backup. I run incremental and mount to a NAS. I have about 2GB in database and 3GB in files (500,000+ PNGs). Backup is hard on the server and it takes 17 hours to complete according to my logs.
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Should I use :
1. Raid
2. 2nd HDD and use cPanel's built in backup system.
3. Separate backup's server using cPanel's built in backup system.
4. r1soft or other commercial softwares?
I host several web clients that were recently impacted by the crap at ThePlanet. As I think about how to be more redundant (and repetitive) I'm not sure of my options.
What's the best practice to ensure that if you have a server at a data center that goes out, that you can (somewhat) easily switch over to a different server? I suppose one solution is to have 2 servers at 2 physical locations, and then you could just change the DNS record in the event of failure, but is there another solution I'm not aware of? Is there a good resource I can goto to read up on this info?
Still considering co-location and have been for many months! One thing I'm now thinking of is firewalls. What firewalls are available to me, what functionality do they have? What kind of additional protection can they give against DDoS attacks?
I really have no idea where to go with hardware firewalls. The bandwidth going through the firewall on average would be no more than 10mbit/s. Perhaps 20 with growth!
how you went about setting up your colo space with firewall protection
I'm reseller vps, and now i decided to run own node, and sell vps, i choosed VDSMANAGER control panel, because virtuzzo is expensive.
Please help me to choose best options to run best and quality node,
VDSManager or VEportal ? (good optios&security&support&...)
XEN or OPENVZ ? (uutil now OPENVZ best for run static and dynamic site, but on xen can be run vpn & shoutcast & windows & linux & ...)
RAM GB ?
CPU ?
Hard ?
can i use load balancing for vps node ?
how many vps can be run on this node ?
Ex:
VDSmanager
XEN
Core2Quad Q9300
8 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
I am selling custom software and web-design solutions. After my "unforgetable" experience with PayPal and 2CO i have found URL - they are new on the market and this is why they are more responsive than PayPal, whose priority is quantity, not quality. Most probably there are other option as well - simply this one is the most acceptable for me as it does not require complicated registration process/documents. I don't know how to get a normal merchant account if you live where I live.(I am from Ukraine). Please advice me some merchant accounts with their full discription.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCurrently I cache php to html in a folder, and any time I upload index.php the whole site recaches. It also is set to a specific time such as 1 day, and the specific page will recache on someone hitting a page in 1 day from last cache.
The problem is when there are thousands of people on, and the index.php is uploaded the site crashes due to connections to the database, and possibly writing to the folder as well.
What is the best way to cache these files to html, and not have it crash every time I try to update things on the site. Also it needs to be something somewhat simple.
My host has told me that my forum is coming under a DDOS attack. Once was on Friday March 20th and again today (monday march 23). Before those two, there are attacks almost every week, sometimes twice a week.
The host installed DoS-Deflate. It started blocking legitimate traffic and had to be removed.
The operating system is Linux CentOS, the forum software is VBulletin. The server is a VPS with 1 gig of memory.
Besides DoS-Deflate, what other options are out there?
Just curious if any of you know of good ways to handle the bandwidth costs associated with hosting high traffic video sites.
For a future project I plan a dedicated server, but was hoping there might be a cheap way to avoid bandwidth costs - such as Amazon S3 (however from my calculations this is an expensive option).
I want to know what does kill -6 PID does?
Is there anything else like kill -1,-2 (expect 9).
Also, what is the diff between kill and kill -9?
I'm currently working for a company who are looking to migrate there current business system and also create an e-commerce website.
The company (Company A) who were doing the migration were also going to originally take care of the e-commerce side of things aswell, but after looking at the website solution they have now decided to give it to another company (Company B) to deal with. But seem to be sticking with the original company to do the business system migration.
Now this has created a bit of a problem with regards to the hosting side of things (amongst other things ).
Originally this was all going to be hosted by Company A. This would keep it all nicely integrated.
But now Company B are doing the e-commerce side of things it needs to somehow integrate with the business database.
And now for the question (about time i hear you ask ).
Can you give me the pros and cons of the following scenarios:
Scenario A:
We host both business system (database) and webservers onsite.
Scenario B:
Company A hosts business (database) solution. We host webserver.
Scenario C:
Company A hosts business (database) system. Company B hosts webserver.
I know of ovh (ick), leaseweb/rackedge and thats about it (maybee ecatel I emailed)
is there any others I should know about (not unmetered can't aford 4-5K euro lol)
looking for lower spec proc with 2 drives and 4-6TB on gigabit
to add an application firewall to an IIS server for PCI compliance reasons.
I know the breach product is one option. From what I can tell, they are the people that maintain mod_security now. Is that right?
Besides the breach appliance, what other options do I have for an application firewall for IIS 6 and IIS 7?
I've recently taken out a new server and the management company I use have indicated that the HDD may be failing.
My server memory usage has been pretty much frozen at 85%+ since it went live, and there is only one live site on the server thats not at all active.
Because of this memory issue the management company discovered the HDD issue whilst probing around.
I contacted the server provider and they have said because its a single unit system that the only option they have is for me to have a new HDD and a simple OS reload.
This poses a problem for me because I've paid my management company to harden and configure the server for me - If my server provider reloads, I'll lose all the work I've paid for.
I find it a little unfair that this has happened with a new (maybe reconditioned server) and that I'm stuck in such a situation, but as is life..
I'm just wondering if anyone could suggest what I might be able to do about this. Is there anyway I could perhaps take a full backup of the entire server and reload it from a seperate server? Is there a service avaliable that offers this sort of thing? I can't get physical access to the server so there is no way of me going there and backing it up myself.
My old/original server that I moved from is still active. I think the current server has like 5-10Gb used so far.
How do I add all the options:
*Business Operations
*Business Monitoring
*Business Setup
As the image link
So far I really haven't found any free hosting options that I would personally use for any of my websites. Are there any "full-featured" free hosting options that a lot of people don't know about?
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