Does anyone know anything about the Qwest colocation center in Chicago? It is the 7th floor in the same building Equinix is in. I am looking for positive or negative feedback as I'm looking at potentially placing a couple of cabinets in there.
View 6 RepliesThe company i work for is growing at a rapid pace. We need to decide on if we want to colo or add better,bigger connection to our office.
We currently have DSL from Att 6/1 in downtown chicago.
Our product is a web app which people login and use. It runs in IIS, the user can see there data in various forms when the web server makes MS SQL query on the MS SQL that is also on the web server box which is 2u. The user can also download pdf report which range in size from 2meg to 30megs. Due to a limits of our dsl connection the more user's that use it the slower the end user's experience is due to the inet bottleneck. So our option is to get a T1 from ATT,covad or other provider or colo our server.
what factors should i take into account when looking at colo's in the chicago area. I am not sure how much b.w. this apps uses or any other factors the server would be a Dell 2950.
Anyone got any picks on datacenters in the chicago area?
I am looking for cost efficiency here, but I dont want crap bandwidth since these will be used as gameservers/voiceservers...
Any companies can PM me with info, or people can post their picks, everything is appreciated.
I am looking to send initially a Midsize tower, then not too long after a 1u server...
So cost means alot here.
Any recommendations for inexpensive but fairly good colo options near Chicago? I have a website that will serve users routing through Chicago us.bb.gin.ntt.net and am wondering how low latency I can get to that without breaking the bank for this one project
View 8 Replies View RelatedWe have recently acquired a half rack in a Chicago DC. We have purchased 2 mid range Dell servers, PowerConnect 2724, and a Firebox X20e-W. We also have a block of IP's, for demo purposes lets say: 14.153.12.1 - 58. Now these server will be for two separate clients. Let saw each client gets 10 ip's consecutively from the range above. One server will be a Windows 2003 based server, and the other will run linux. Both will manage there own DNS. What I want to know is if this is possible with the above setup. Basicly I have one incoming drop connection, coming in via the firewall, then to the switch serving multiple machines. We want to be able to drop in more servers as time goes on.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a Colo provider for a 2u server in the Chicago area. I'll be running a game server that will host at least two 24 player servers, so I'm thinking I need a 10Mb unmetered connection.
Ideally, I'd like to get it at $100/mo, but I understand that may be unlikely.
We are going to be expanding here very soon, we are going to be offering a new location within the next month, so I would like a reccommendations for single server colocation providers in the Denver and Chicago areas.
Most likely we will be setting up Chicago to be our next location.
We will be shipping a 2U server initially to get precense in the city.
This is for gaming, so the network quality needs to be great. Due to reputation, no cogent. Preferrably connected to one or more carriers: Internap/Level3/Verizon Business.
if there are any Navisite resellers that have 2U rackspace in the Chicago center available?
View 0 Replies View RelatedI just switched to Qwest DSL for internet access and I have one problem. I cannot access any sites hosted by ServerWizards on all 5 pcs in my house. Even people who comes to my house with their laptop cannot access my sites hosted with SW. Qwest technical support can't help.
This problem occured three times so far this month
1st time I assigned a dedicated IP on all pcs to make it work
2nd time I contacted Qwest support and rebooted the modem to make it work
3rd time I contacted support again and tried everything but does not work
I have no Firewall other than Windows forewall. No virus to think of. Reboot
troubleshoot this or explain what the problem might be.
I would like to hear some input from users that have had experience with Qwest and Sprint's network. How do they compare to the other tier one providers? I know some networks depend on location, so I would like to hear from people that have used them in Texas if possible.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI find it very interesting that the major ISPs in and around Portland Oregon apparently do not peer with anyone in the region. For low latency you're better off choosing a provider in Seattle or San Jose as traffic always seems to be routed there and back anyways.
Why is this? Is it simply not worth their effort to setup the peering connections because most traffic will be hosted outside the region anyways?
Can anyone comment on how their experience has been with the Qwest network in the Texas region? It seems by looking at their network map that they have many directly links to other cities coming out of Houston which is a surprise to me as everything seems to come from Dallas on other networks.
Can anyone comment on pricing? What can you get a FE or GE commit from Qwest for?
I am looking at getting some Qwest bandwidth at 200 Paul, San Francisco. Not being too familar with Qwest's network and as part of evaluating that decision I did some testing to see how the routes/latency looked from various points on the Internet and from our other data centers. For pretty much all the testing I did from the major tier 1/2 networks, Qwest has great peering in places you would expect resulting is decent routes and low latency.
The strange thing is that the one exception is routes from Level 3. As an example, traffic from various Northern California points on Level 3's network to a test IP on Qwest's network in Sunnyvale all go via Denver to connect to Qwest and then back to the Bay Area. For LA originating traffic, it goves via Dallas. Same thing for Seattle that is going via Denver.
Hard to imagine these two tier 1 providers don't peer at any location on the west coast at all? Is this typical between these two or is there some temporary outage right now? Or is there some peering spat going on between them?
Seems pretty silly for traffic to go 3,000 miles between points that are only 10 miles apart!
Here is an example of the route to a test IP sunnyvale.speedtest.qwest.net (205.171.214.185):
1 vlan89.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.190) 0 msec
vlan79.csw2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.126) 0 msec
vlan99.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.18.254) 0 msec
2 ae-62-62.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.209) 216 msec
ae-82-82.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.217) 4 msec
ae-72-72.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.134.213) 204 msec
3 ae-3.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.58) 204 msec 200 msec 204 msec
4 ae-11-51.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.6) 224 msec
ae-11-55.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.134) 212 msec *
5 dvr-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (63.146.26.133) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 24 msec 28 msec 28 msec
6 dvr-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.10.54) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 24 msec 24 msec 28 msec
7 * * *
8 svl-svcs-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.214.98) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
9 svl-speedtest-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.214.185) [AS209 {ASN-QWEST}] 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
Anyone have experiences with using Qwest bandwidth in Northern California they care to share?
For years we have been able to send and receive through our web sites using Qwest and then a few weeks ago it stopped working for sending completely. I checked the usual things like port 25; I changed the outbound mail address to smtp.live.com per their instructions. Nothing. Now that Qwest is MSN it just doesn't work and their offshore "support" is worthless. This happens using Windows XP Pro and Vista.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow would you rate the following networks for transport and IP services:
Level3, Qwest, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon
Please put them in order from you number one choice (best choice) to your number five choice (worst choice) if possible.
Please give me the difference. Colo in carrier hotel, we can choose our preferred network provider, but should we do that if we cannot have our own tech in datacenter? How about the supporting service from carrier hotel? Just general question, cause I dont address exactly which facility.
And the second would be more expensive? Saying the same number of rack, amount of bandwidth... Who is providing IP addresses then?
I know there is futurehosting.biz and steadfast.net wich I think futurehosting is in their datacenter.
is there any other vps providers based in chicago? All of our clients are in minnesota and we would like to provide fastest response times as possible.
If you were going to colocate with FDC would you choose Chicago or Denver? Which is going to have a better network and support?
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have two cabinet with Equinix at 350 Cermak in Chicago. I want to add another cabinet but now they want me to buy 3 more cabinets because of their new power density rules. what a joke! buy 3 cabinets when i can only really use one (or less than one, like i only need 20U !!)
so i want to know who else is in that building that doesnt have such stupid rules so I can pay them for cabinet+power.
I want 208-30 and 1 cabinet. I will run two x-connects to my two cabinets. This will cost me some extra switching equipment but will save me $2400/mo for a long-time. money well spent in my opinion.
so please let me know who has good cabinet, access, pricing, etc. i just need 1 cabinet, 208-30A primary/redundant, and 2 x-connects to my existing infrastructure.
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 already have two virtual private servers with providers in the Chicago area, but I`m looking for another one that offers some level of managament/monitoring service. I don`t like keep all my eggs in the same basket!
I see Futurehosting offers servers from a Chicago facility, which I believe is Steadfast? They also offer for a few bucks extra, pro-active monitoring on two services.
I have found quite a few reviews for Futurehosting, but these are mostly in relation to their Texas and UK offerings.
Anyone here offer an insight into their Chicago operations, especially those who have been there more than a few weeks?
I ordered 2 1U servers from dell (Poweredge 1950). One is loaded with Dual Quad core processors, 8GB of ram, and RAID 5. The other server is just a test/back up server with basic configuration.
I'm hosting 2 major websites (e-commerce shopping carts) on the main server. One receives about 2000 uniques per day, the other about 500/day with occasional bursts of traffic of 25,000 uniques in just one day. All in all, I think I'll need about 200-300GB of monthly transfer. I'm mainly worried about the connection speed not being able to handle these bursts of traffic.
What kind of specs should I be looking for in colocation hosting to meet my needs? Any recommended collocation facilities in Chicago for this?
Private Data Center Colocation. Tier 4 Chicago High Availability Colocation opening July 2007. 86,000 sq. ft. Tier 3+ private data center located in Oak Brook, IL. Stargate is currently accepting floor space requests for anchor clients with expected opening for July 2007.
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Looks like more competition in the Chicago area and thats always a good thing.
Foiled again.
I'm dropping a few 1U units off at a datacenter tomorrow, in Chicago. I was waiting for the heatsinks to be delivered via UPS today.. but unfortunately they dropped the ball. The package was left at a sorting facility, and won't be here now until Tuesday.
Does anyone know of a location in the Chicagoland area that carries 1U hardware, and would be open on a Saturday morning?
I'm in the process of setting up a new 2U Dell server and I'm looking to colocate it here in Chicago.
Here's what I'm looking for:
16 IP's
350GB/month Bandwidth (ability to burst up to 100Mbit)
2U Server
$100/month or less
I don't need fancy bandwidth or lots of additional features. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might look? I've used Empyrean Hosting in the past, but they've been sold to another company.
My company runs an extremely successful ecommerce website but we are currently unhappy with our current provider for reasons I will not list here. We are looking to move to a carrier neutral location (possible switch and data because it is in the same building) or other options are Equinix and?.
The problem is going from one provider and a /29 to trying to balance two or three providers. No one is going to do bgp with someone only using three ips. We have 2 cabinets with 40 servers (60u total) but most everything is nat'd.
What options are available? Management wants 99.999% uptime (yes i know unrealistic) but downtime is lost $$$ when 100% of sales come from the web. They are willing to pay to keep downtime at a minimum. Multiple data centers around the country is planned for later in 2008 or early 2009. Server cost is not the problem but making the website and back end databases work in a multiple data center environment is the problem.
Any suggestions? Is Internap a possibility? During my searches here at WHT, I seem to see either Equinix, Server Central, or SteadFast mentioned as the favorites. Pricing looks fine at Server Central and it looks like they may have their own network. Steadfast pricing is cheaper but the amount of outages in the outage forum scares me.
I am currently hosted in Chicago but I am hurting real bad where I am presently at and need to switch pretty quick. This is what I have right now:
coreduo 6600
2G ram
Debian
1200G premium network
Lakeside
$159
Who and where is everyone in Chicago? And it would appear that right now I DO NOT want Savvis. If the folks at where I am hosted at would have switched me to their standard network all would have been golden, but no dice.
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.
LIke the title says, requirements are only that it is hosted in Chicago, runs Windows 2k3 so I can log in from the remote control app in windows, and preferably under $30/mo. I only need about 10/15 gigs a month bandwidth max, and HD space, no more than 2 gigs.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAlright, here's the deal--
I need a budget chicago server -- I know, very difficult to find (last company I went with was Singlehop, and they're great, but I can't afford it for what I'd wish to do.)
Anyways, here's what I need my server for --
Some personal, non busy websites(my webhost that I've been using is being let go by me :[ I need this server for it reliably.)
CentOS5 or RH4 is preferred.
cPanel is required
I intend to host a few websites, and TWO counter-strike 1.6 servers (not busy or CPU intense really)
So..
Who are the reputable players in chicago ?, must be carrier neutral
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