Server geeks - colo in the States

[Mental Trousers]

Does anyone know of decent co-lo datacentres in the States? Preferably eastern USA.

We're having a wee problem with communicating with the current provider, ie we talk and they hear what they want. So I'm fishing for a new datacentre to host our servers.

[p.dath]

RackSpace is fairly popular, and offer impressive SLAs.

http://www.rackspace.com/

[p.dath]

You might also want to consider using Hong Kong. It is a bandwidth hub for our region, closer to NZ than the US (aka lower latency for local NZ users) yet still has cheap bandwidth like the US.

[ViragoVixen]

We use Superb which have datacentres in Seattle and Washington. We've been with them for years now and have had next to no issues. Their support is very prompt and they are good value. Highly recommended. http://tinyurl.com/y86xkls. We've also used Rackspace .... same level of uptime and service, but cost more.

[Mental Trousers]

You might also want to consider using Hong Kong. It is a bandwidth hub for our region, closer to NZ that the US (aka lower latency for local NZ users) yet still has cheap bandwidth like the US.

Our customers are almost exclusively international so bandwidth to the rest of the world (not just the States) is important.

[p.dath]

Our customers are almost exclusively international so bandwidth to the rest of the world (not just the States) is important.

Which countries do you think make up the top 3 major users?

London is a major bandwidth hub for the European side of the globe.

Hong Kong is a major hub for the Asia Pacific region.

And well, the US is a hub for itself, but everyone connects back to it like its the centre of the world.

[Mental Trousers]

The States and Western Europe are our biggest. I'd have to take a look at our customer database to figure out which the third country would be, but those 2 are far and away our biggest.

[p.dath]

The States and Western Europe are our biggest. I'd have to take a look at our customer database to figure out which the third country would be, but those 2 are far and away our biggest.

Stick with the US for sure then.

Don't bother looking at the customer database. Look at your webstats. That should identify the top bandwidth consumer by country code.

[RantyDave]

Does anyone know of decent co-lo datacentres in the States?

Might this be a good time to move to virtual hosting? Amazon will sell you "as much as you want"(tm), even running Windows images. Lower down the market I've had no problems with slicehost although linode are apparently much faster.

I recently read an interesting blog post on this very subject...

Dave

[p.dath]

Looking at some of your recent stats:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/usage/ctry_usage_200911.png

New Zealand accounts for 79% of your usage, with the next 12% probably being the US.

This would suggest a Hong Based location would deliver a better result ...

[p.dath]

Also considering that 79% of your bandwidth is consumed by NZ, you should take a look at how NZ connects to the rest of the World:
http://www.ispmap.co.nz/topmap.html

Basically, if you choose co-lo overseas, try and get someone who connects to one of the major bandwidth points into NZ to get the latency down.

[Mental Trousers]

This is work, not kb related btw.

[Tank]

I have done this with a number of systems - PM me a number if you like and we can chat and come up with some options. A lot depends on the design of your systems and what you are actually delivering.

[breakaway]

http://corenetworks.net/

Best feature is the IP-KVM whenever you want it at no extra charge.

[avgas]

What about those storage centres like EDS, Revera and Datacom etc? Or do they only do the top secret stuff?
I'm a complete noob when it comes to non-secure data-storage.