Anyone had any experiences good or bad with Peer1 in Miami? The first concern that comes to mind is hurricanes but it's hard to find a datacenter that's not in the path of some sort of natural disaster potential.
View 6 RepliesI just moved 3 servers to colo with Peer1 in Miami. I just had 3 great years of colo with Fluidhosting so my standards are high. I wanted to buy directly from a Tier2, however, and Miami is close enough that I can access the datacenter if I need to which will be a plus.
My sales rep, Delynn, was great. Many of you are hosts and know that buying directly from Tier1's and Tier2's can be a pain in the butt because of the typical big company sales approach. You know when they refuse to give you a price and instead insist on knowing what your "budget" is... Delynn didn't do that, Peer1 has some great deals for smaller setups like 1/8th cabinets w/ 5mbps. They also gave me a month to month contract for a modest increase over the full year contract amount.
As for setup: The servers were installed within 2 hours of arriving on a Saturday. The tech gave me a call and confirmed everything was ok and that my 3 servers + unmanaged switch were doing ok on the 5 amp circuit since my servers are pretty low power usage. Their NOC is very smart and fast and available 24/7 afaik.
Important things to note: Luckily the day before my servers arrived I had an "oh @#%@" moment when I realized that I'd probably need to send them my own switch/power strip/ethernet cables. Sure enough this was the case and I overnighted a box to arrive at the same time as my servers. IMO this is a rather small caveat. It's not a big deal to send them a 50-100 dollar 100mbps unmanaged switch that's only using 0.2 amps.
So it's been "so far so good" I've been a fan of the Peer1 network since years ago when Fluidhosting used to carry them. As one would expect the Peer1 Miami pings to Europe/Asia aren't as good as the Internap routes from the northeast but I'm expecting the nearly flawless Peer1 network connectivity that I remember. I will give a network update in a few months.
Witch VPS do you recommend in Miami Area.
My business is targeted to Latin america, I think miami is the best place to host my web site.
Windows Server / IIS
5 Web Sites
PHP5
MySQL 5
Host Company Mail (10 accounts)
(Mail + WebSite) Less than 2 Gb. of Disk Spapce
Bandwidth Less than 10Gb / Montly
I'm currentlly hosting in ASmallOrange Shared Hosting, the tech support is great, but they had a lot of downtimes, and I'm looking to move to a Windows VPS Platform.
www.miamiservers.net
I recently just got a hosting account through Miami Servers, and I would like to compliment the speed and availability of the server, and the great feedback and support you get from their employees..
I run a Content Management System for my FPS Clan... and i have had no issues or problems yet...
5/5... i recommend this service to anyone!..
www.miamiservers.net
We are a small Dutch company that has a few dedicated servers in the Rotterdam datacenter. At the moment we have a VPS in the US we use as secondary DNS and backup of main site.
Because we actually own quite some servers we were thinking about the posibility to co-locate one of our own servers in the US.
We only use HP Proliant servers with iLO so we could allways manage a server remotely.
What we need is.
1. Datacenter in Orlando or Miami
2. Possibility for "hands on support" like to change a HDD or to upgrade memory (for only 1 server).
3. 1U of space and around 500GB of monthly datatransfer (we currently use only 200GB).
4. Internal cPanel license!
5. A good connection to Europe and preferably alos South America (Aruba, Curacao, Venezuela).
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 RelatedHave clients who want to move from this provider as they are complaining constantly of lag.
Was wondering what else was available in Miami Florida.
How is Peer1? Their site looks nice, but I don't know much more than that. I took some pings and the pings are bigger than some other providers like HE/Internap in the same region ( San Jose, California ).
Please provide your feedback on their stability/pricing and any comparisons you can make with it and HE/Internap.
does anyone here host with Peer1 or ServerBeach (same company)? I see their advertisements here at WHT non-stop, but I have yet to see any reviews, positive nor negative.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have any reviews for Peer1?
They have a datacenter in Vancouver and I am think of colocating with them.
colocation in Los Angeles [1/2 cab to full cab] and have been strongly leaning toward Peer1. I've done a ton of research on Peer1 through this site, and the general consensus seems to be that they're very solid.
I came across a handful of posts from 2005 and 2006 about problems in NYC, and there are two or three people on WHT who seem to have long-standing issues with Peer1, but I haven't found a single thread labeled "Peer1 outage" or "Peer1 downtime", which -- considering the size of the company -- makes them seem very stable.
What I'd like to hear is some specific reports from people who colo with Peer1 (especially those in Los Angeles) about how much annual downtime and packetloss is typical with Peer1. How many power outages, and for how long? How many router issues, and for how long? That kind of thing...
The longer you've been with Peer1, the better, but issues covering the last 2-3 years would probably be most relevant (things can change a lot from 4+ years ago). I'd just like to go into this feeling confident that I'm making the right choice. [It's a big step because I'm thousands of miles from L.A. and need things to work -- I don't want to have to move once I'm there.]
Finally, while I am obviously leaning toward Peer1, I'm also open to suggestions for other colo providers in Los Angeles. However, they have to be stable companies with a proven track record and fast 24/7 support -- If I call at 4 in the morning, I need an engineer on the phone standing by my server in a matter of minutes. I also need the security of a company that is big enough (and charges enough) that it won't be going out of business two years from now.
Has anyone had any experience with Peer1's Toronto datacenter?
View 0 Replies View RelatedAll I want to do is buy the parts and ship them to some company that lives on the Peer1 network and build a single unit. I know this can be done, but does anybody know of a company that offers 1U colo on Peer1's network? (in NY)
View 14 Replies View RelatedWe need people with Peer1 as a backbone and where we can (with a planned schedule that we can arrange with you) go in frequently to do maintenance on the server.
We need this in both Vancouver and New York.
We'd just get collocation directly from Peer1 in those parts but it's too costly.
Anyone know of where to go?
If not, anyone know of any companies there that peer with Peer1 in that area whose colo is cheaper?
Who are the people/companies with a good reputation with the WHT community who provide Internap or Peer1 colo? And it seems it's mostly in LA or NY, I know both Peer1 and Internap have a presence in other places, is there anyone reselling out of anywhere else?
Pure Internap or Pure Peer1 hosts only please. The only one I know of right now is H4Y.us
I have a very specific need to fill for a client. But I need someone who has colocation or dedicated server space in Vancouver, or New York.
You'd take a cut of profits made for helping, plus the idea is just damn cool.
You need to have:
-Peer1 upstream.
-Physical access to your servers.
im looking to spend $1000USD per month on a dedicated windows server (mission critical). But not sure which one to go with, which one is reliable rackspace, peer1, liquidweb or webair?
p.s I dont really need managed webhosting, mainly require a good network with 100% up time, hardware support and server monitoring alert.