[nycbug-talk] Datacenter Question

[Jesse Callaway]

make sure to ask some hard hitting questions in the area of The Big 
Blackout etc. Ask how many kilowatt hours they have of backup juice. If 
they can't say, they didn't buy anything.... it's just building power. 
Ask if you can see their bandwidth stats from their ISPsesses website.
ask to look under the floor to see if the cabling sucks
ask to look at the modems, muxes or whatever where their feeds come in. 
Ie, if they say they have 8 redundant connections to teir-1 backbones, 
then take a look. There needs to be at least 8 pieces of equipment 
going to 8 lines.

If anything is impressive it's expensive. Go for people who know what 
they are doing, not a white room.

On Jul 27, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Kit Halsted wrote:

> Hi Megan:
>
> I can recommend NYI for both... http://nyi.net/
>
> I'm not sure if they still have anything at 20 Exchange Place, but 
> their setup there never impressed me.
>
> Their new facility is another story, very nice.
>
> HTH,
> -Kit
>
> At 10:51 AM -0400 7/27/04, Megan Restuccia wrote:
>> Does anyone in the NY/NJ area, have a datacenter or use a co-location 
>> site, that they can recommend someone visit to see a datacenter 
>> designed right? Or one that can be visited to point out what not to 
>> do?
>>
>> Megan
>
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