Colocation is leasing space for one's own servers or racks of servers in a datacenter owned by another entity.
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Understanding redundant power supplies
Im looking into the cost of putting a Cassandra cluster into a colo facility. Along these lines there would be 6-8 servers at the outset with expected growth over time. One option is just a series of ...
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Application Hosting Software [closed]
For years I've been hosting my websites on a local Shared Hosting Provider, but since traffic increases on my websites, and my websites become more complex I am looking for a different solution. I ...
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How can I replace a physical router with a virtual router for colocating Windows Server 2012 machine with multiple VM's?
I am currently setting up a Windows Server 2012 machine that will be colocated. It will have around 10 VM's on it that allow various users to connect in and run them from home. Most of the VM's will ...
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Is there anything I can do with a software RAID 1 on linux to workaround temporary 'bad' sectors?
Basically I have two identical hard disks that are in perfect working order, they just don't have the vibration tolerance they need for the environment they are in. (I am making an educated guess that ...
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How to find best datacenter in China? [closed]
I guess this question would be applicable for most countries but in this case, more specifically: if you do not speak Chinese how to find top tier data centers in China?
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Should HA hardware be in separate cabinets?
I want to host (co-located) a service at a Pier1, Q9 or some similar hosting facility.
Is it best practice to put my failover hardware in separate cabinets, and in your experience, will the hosting ...
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Understanding IPMI - colo monitor required?
Im preparing to purchase a slew of servers from a vendor that touts 'IPMI 2.0' on the main board. I haven't bought any hardware in some time and I'm coming from a Dell/DRAC world where I need a KVM ...
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Active Directory domain membership for a colocated server and its hosted VMs
I will be setting up a single hardware to be colocated in a data center to host several Hyper-V guests, all of which will have Windows Server 2012 installed as the operating system. I will be managing ...
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How to connect to a SINGLE colocated server - is StrongSWAN sufficient?
I am thinking of colocating a SuperMicro 1022G-URF (16-way 1u server, 16 GB RAM) at a "place that does server colocation. I am running CentOS 6. The server will be a web server and an email server ...
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How to use 2 subnets on one network
I have some servers at a colocation. They've given us an IP range, subnet and gateway. Now we have run out of IP addresses and they've given us a new range of IPs but with a different subnet and ...
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Simple networking (L3 switch / colocation)
I'm starting to learn basic switching / networking and I've hit a small hiccup in understanding a fundamental thing. In the scenario I have a L3 switch (Brocade in my environment) and the facility ...
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What does it mean - to get billed to the 95th percentile at $x.xx per meg?
I got a quote from a colo, saying
"I could do 3U, the power and 20 megs burstable to 100 for $250 a
month with each additional meg billed to the 95th percentile at 6.50
per meg..so you would ...
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Best City in Australia for Dedicated Hosting [closed]
We are looking to duplicate a copy of our database and application servers to serve our customers in Australia. We are looking for a well connected datacenter providing dedicated hosting (full machine ...
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MAPS software on colocated server [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
As a participant in MAPS program, are we allowed to place the software installation on a colocated server , or does it ...
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Planning to move servers from one colo to another
We're not very pleased with our current colocation provider and so we're looking to move to a different company in a different city. Our business is an online school that's accessed world wide (which ...
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How to go about finding a professional moving company for rack hardware [closed]
My company will be moving an entire rack of server hardware from a colo facility in Seattle to anot the Silicon Valley area. We are trying to figure out if we should do it ourselves or hire an ...
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Is it normal for inbound traffic to far exceed outbound traffic?
I have a web server on a coloc host. All 'planned' activity is over HTTP. (There's no FTP server, no bittorrent client, no IRC bots, etc.)
My inbound traffic is consistently 5-10 times higher than my ...
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How to transition from VPS to dedicated servers with minimal downtime? [closed]
i am about to start an online service and am expecting good traffic, hence i am thinking of starting off with VPS servers. However, my question is when the traffic of the site increases to such an ...
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When buying a rack-mount server and renting space, what's more important? [closed]
If I'm buying a server, if I consider the price/performance ratio for buying more rack space, or buying more powerful servers, which is more inexpensive? Getting the most powerful box and saving a ...
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What is the reason for variation in colocation pricing? [closed]
I have been doing a lot of research on colocation lately and have gained a lot of understanding in regards to how it all works and the different prices for various parts of colocation.
Overall a lot ...
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Providing internet redundancy for our colocation provider
My company recently had an network outage at our colocation facility that is serving our main website. The outage was caused by an upstream switch failure.
I was told by my ISP (who provides us with ...
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Colocation advice for small business [closed]
webdev here with my sysadmin hat on.
I am looking to colo some of my servers since I am located too far from the adsl exchange and can't afford a leased line.
I have the following servers:
1 * SBS ...
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When does colocation become more cost effective than renting dedicated servers?
The company I use ranges from $136-$495 per month, per server, ranging from low-end (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+) to enterprise (Intel Dual Xeon X5650, A/B Power).
The biggest pro for renting a server is ...
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Secure Colocation Kiosk
I am looking to create a secure colocation kiosk so that customers can confirm http, ping, ssh etc.
This would include just a browser, ssh client (possibly firessh firefox addon), and possibly ...
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Server/Power supply AMP usage
I've been looking into getting some servers with co-location, I've worked with co-lo'd servers before but this is the first time I've actually a rack up.
All co-lo' providers specify a limit on the ...
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Measure ip/port traffic [closed]
We have a small data center here in Brazil to host our servers.
Now we are planing to provide some colocation and VPC hosting, and we need to measure monthly traffic of each ip/port.
We can't to ...
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Network equipment to provide firewalling, switching, and redundancy
What kind of networking equipment would you recommend for a set of hosted Web servers, given these circumstances:
Current Situation
There are two web servers in colocation, in a dedicated closet. ...
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Hosting web server via FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or datacenter
I'm a .Net programmer that currently using web hosting provider to host my web applications.
In my place, currently there is offer of 20 Mbps FTTH (Fibre To The Home) internet line by an ISP. This ...
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can I use US servers in Europe?
I have a couple of Dell Poweredge R200 coloed in the US and thinking to move some of them to Europe. I am wondering if this is possible without modification (regarding 110 vs 230 voltage difference)? ...
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Are Multiple NIC Ports Needed for a Cross Connect at a Colocation?
If one is going to run a cross-connect in a data center colocation does that mean that it requires another physical network port in the machine being connected? For example if a machine in a data ...
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Global Colocation hosting single vendor vs multiple
We are openning 2 data centers in the US and 2 in Europre that are globaly load balanced.
From uptime stand point am I risking in single point of failure going with one vender for colocating?
Most ...
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Receiving Cable/Satellite Television in Colo?
I am running analysis over many live TV channels (both broadcast and cable networks). Currently I have an office setup with couple of DISH receivers hooked up to HDMI capture cards in a machine ...
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How do I negotiate for colo space?
I guess this isn't a technical question, but it definitely is something IT teams deal with, so here goes:
I'm looking at getting a rack at a local colocation facility. I'm weighing the options versus ...
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Firewall for servers at a colo?
I'm moving a couple of servers to a colo and was wondering what you would recommend for a hardware firewall to sit in front of them? Is it fine to just get the cheapest ...
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Suggestions on changing an internet smtp server's ip address
We are moving one of our smtp servers from one hosting provider (A) to another hosting provider (B). Because of this move, the IP address of the server will have to change.
Our plan is to do the ...
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Switching from 120v to 208v power
We are going to switch from 20 amp 120 volt to 20 amp 208 volt circuits in our colocation facility. I am new to dealing with anything other than standard 120v power, so I am unsure of some intricacies ...
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New to Colo - What switch should I get?
I'm colocating a 1U server next week, and I'm looking for a 5 port or less switch that is reliable. My mobo has two interfaces: one for IPMI and one for the OS, so I need at least a two port switch. I ...
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Game Server Colocation [closed]
I am new to colocation. I am looking for a good place to host my server that would have around 5-10 Source Servers (Team Fortress 2). I am looking at maybe around 90 players at a time for now, players ...
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Backup system, two locations. Recommendations?
I have two servers running Ubuntu 10.10, placed at two different locations. One is production, and one development.
I wondered, if any of you had experience with backing up, best practices and ...
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Windows Domain for Work-At-Home Consultants
We are a small consulting firm, with a need for a windows domain based network. Most of our consultants work either at home, or on-site.
What would be the best way to provide a domain centric ...
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How can I access “Server Preferences” on colo-ed Snow Leopard server?
We have a colocated Mac OS X 10.6 server, and I need to create a new user on the box. (The existing users were created by me when the box was on my desk.) I'm able to connect to the machine using SSH ...
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Colo-ing in Seattle [closed]
Does anyone with experience with colo facilities in the Seattle area have recommendations? Price is a factor. If you have experience with companies in another location that also have Seattle ...
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What tools, parts, accessories do you keep in your Colo?
I know Colo is less popular these days with the Cloud, but I thought I'd ask people what tools and extra parts, etc they like to keep in their Colo cages or racks.
Here are some of my favorites:
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Datacenter with fast connectivity to AWS Virgina (S3 data exchange) [closed]
I'm looking for a colo with a fast connection and low latency to the Amazon Web Services Virginia location. I need fast connectivity to S3 with reasonable pricing for a server that can handle CPU ...
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Out of Band Access - what's your favorite Terminal / Console Server [closed]
I am looking for a 32 or 48 port Console Server for access to routers, switches console ports in our Colo - any recommendations?
The devices it would connect to are mainstream (Cisco, HP, NetApp, ...
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Server co-location in Hong Kong [closed]
We are building a website that need to be dedicatedly hosted at some point.
We are physically located in Australia, but the colocation/dedicated hosting is ridiculously expensive in Australia, ...
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Sending email without mail gateway?
I'm currently speaking to a co-location host. They say they don't provide a mail gateway (SMTP or whatever) with their colo service. Perhaps this is a hole in my understanding, but I thought that ...
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Ubuntu server monitoring
I'm about to begin to colocate a server and I'm looking for lightweight server monitoring. From those of you with experience, what kind of monitoring should I look for? What do I want to avoid?
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Securely wipe a headless remote linux server
I'm about to terminate my relationship with my hosting provider of many years, but I'd like to securely wipe the box before I do. This is a dedicated server running Debian on a single EXT3 drive and ...
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall in routed mode
I'm looking at the Barracuda Web Application Firewall to sit in front of a LAMP server at a colo facility.
From what I gather in the documentation, you can set it up in bridged mode or routed mode, ...
