From irish.masms at gmail.com Fri Jul 17 16:31:20 2020 From: irish.masms at gmail.com (irish.masms) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:31:20 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/talk] sorta OT: looking for localish colo Message-ID: <74584d79-d37d-001e-36b7-d15ae4af44fe@gmail.com> Hello folks, long time lurker. We have a situation at the $dayjob where we need to host a spare VPN and a linux box in a colo. Any recommendations suggestions on colo, driving distance from SF bay area, with decent interconnectivity, where they have some sort of security & compliance program? We already talked with: - Hurricane Electric: completely flaked on us, though really cheap for a full rack. Even an email to their CEO was worthless. - Sonic: Responsive, pricey for only 2U. not willing to deal with the compliance requirements we have. - Equinix: expensive - QTS: expensive TIA! From jet at sonic.net Sat Jul 18 07:02:38 2020 From: jet at sonic.net (Mark Street) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 07:02:38 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/talk] sorta OT: looking for localish colo In-Reply-To: <74584d79-d37d-001e-36b7-d15ae4af44fe@gmail.com> References: <74584d79-d37d-001e-36b7-d15ae4af44fe@gmail.com> Message-ID: Sonic....  "responsive", customer centered. You could look at Switch - (Flying distance), but that would probably bust the budget as well ... https://www.switch.com You get what you pay for..... Regards, Mark On 7/17/2020 4:31 PM, irish.masms wrote: > Hello folks, long time lurker. > > We have a situation at the $dayjob where we need to host a spare VPN and > a linux box in a colo. Any recommendations suggestions on colo, driving > distance from SF bay area, with decent interconnectivity, where they > have some sort of security & compliance program? > > We already talked with: > - Hurricane Electric: completely flaked on us, though really cheap for a > full rack. Even an email to their CEO was worthless. > - Sonic: Responsive, pricey for only 2U. not willing to deal with the > compliance requirements we have. > - Equinix: expensive > - QTS: expensive > > TIA! > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at nblug.org > https://nblug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > From afishionado at gmail.com Sat Jul 18 08:44:27 2020 From: afishionado at gmail.com (William Tracy) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 08:44:27 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/talk] sorta OT: looking for localish colo In-Reply-To: <74584d79-d37d-001e-36b7-d15ae4af44fe@gmail.com> References: <74584d79-d37d-001e-36b7-d15ae4af44fe@gmail.com> Message-ID: What are these compliance requirements of yours? I would be shocked if Hurricane Electric would meet any compliance requirements that Sonic wouldn't. That's probably why they flaked on you: They don't even try to compete for contracts that require anything past the bare minimum of effort. (HE is notorious for running a loose ship, which is how they can offer rock bottom prices. Their target market is people who want to cram an old tower into a rack sideways and use it as a Minecraft server.) I suspect that announcing that you have "compliance requirements" immediately flags you as an "enterprise customer", which means that you're going to pay "enterprise" prices. Beyond that, I don't really have any leads beyond what you can find through Google. At one time Prgmr.com offered colocation, and even for a while after they discontinued that offering the owner was friendly enough to chat about South Bay colocation facilities. The company has changed hands in the meantime though, and I have no reason to believe that the new owners are going to offer free colocation consulting. (I'm still a fan of their discount VPS offering, though!) I thought Progent was advertising colocation services at one point, but they aren't now. Sorry I can't help much, William On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:31 PM irish.masms wrote: > Hello folks, long time lurker. > > We have a situation at the $dayjob where we need to host a spare VPN and > a linux box in a colo. Any recommendations suggestions on colo, driving > distance from SF bay area, with decent interconnectivity, where they > have some sort of security & compliance program? > > We already talked with: > - Hurricane Electric: completely flaked on us, though really cheap for a > full rack. Even an email to their CEO was worthless. > - Sonic: Responsive, pricey for only 2U. not willing to deal with the > compliance requirements we have. > - Equinix: expensive > - QTS: expensive > > TIA! > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at nblug.org > https://nblug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paulgs at sonic.net Sat Jul 18 12:21:06 2020 From: paulgs at sonic.net (Paul Stagoli) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 12:21:06 -0700 Subject: [NBLUG/talk] sorta OT: looking for localish colo Message-ID: <77995534-71b3-5532-48e3-7afdde6beab4@sonic.net> Greetings! Sungard has a CoLo in the Sacramento area.  Their security is very tight in my opinion.  I do not know what they cost.  As Mark pointed out, you get what you pay for... Thanks, Paul Hello folks, long time lurker. We have a situation at the $dayjob where we need to host a spare VPN and a linux box in a colo. Any recommendations suggestions on colo, driving distance from SF bay area, with decent interconnectivity, where they have some sort of security & compliance program? We already talked with: - Hurricane Electric: completely flaked on us, though really cheap for a full rack. Even an email to their CEO was worthless. - Sonic: Responsive, pricey for only 2U. not willing to deal with the compliance requirements we have. - Equinix: expensive - QTS: expensive TIA!