[134878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: co-location and access to your server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Kelly)
Wed Jan 12 15:30:07 2011
From: Matt Kelly <mjkelly@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D2E0DF2.4010301@mompl.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:28:31 -0500
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
When you are talking single or partial rack colo it is generally done as =
escorted only, due to security. They can't have anyone coming in and =
poking around other customers hardware without being watched. We do the =
same thing but we allow 24x7 escorted access. Half and full racks get =
24x7 access also but that is because they are individually locked.
--
Matt
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Cruzio in Santa Cruz recently opened a little co-location facility. =
That makes two of such facilities in Santa Cruz (the other being =
got.net), which could be a good thing for competition.
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> Their 1U offer comes with limited access to your server, only from =
10AM to 6 PM. I find that not acceptable. Why wait until 10 AM when a =
disk breaks at 8 PM? But maybe I am being too picky.
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> What is considered normal with regards to access to your co-located =
server(s)? Especially when you're just co-locating one or a few servers.
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> Thanks,
> Jeroen
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> http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
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