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Colocation is leasing space for one's own servers or racks of servers in a datacenter owned by another entity.

Colocation is leasing space for one's own servers or racks of servers in a datacenter owned by another entity.

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Confused about hosting offer: 20 M/bit uplink speed vs Gig/E Uplink Connectivity?

The datacenter in question is offering the following for colocating a server: 20 M/bit uplink speed Gig/E Uplink Connectivity Could someone explain the difference in the above? I'm confused as to what the throughput speed is for users who will…
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Moving the server to new location

We just moved our dedicated server to a new DC (Colocation). I modified the ifcfg-eth0 with the new IP and gateway but the server is not responding yet. As far as I know adding the new IP in eth0 would be enough to make the server online. Is there…
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changing name servers when moving a co-located server to a new colocation provider

I'm not our company's networking person. He is out with an illness for a few weeks. My apologies if this question is ABC simple. I am a little confused by our current setup. We have a dedicated managed physical server at a colocation provider. The…
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At what point do you consider moving from the cloud to colocation?

I'm currently operating at a cost of about $25k - $40k per month on AWS. I have about 30TB of data indexed in Elasticsearch, running a 4 node production cluster, and another 4 node staging cluster. Each system in the cluster is an m4.2xlarge, with a…
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How do I move my servers to a datacenter?

I feel like an idiot for having to ask this, but essentially, I have a few server in my private data centre that I would like to repurpose for web hosting. I am currently hosting my site with goDaddy and after moving my servers to colocated hosting,…
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hosting country for a global site

For a high traffic global web site is it efficient to change the hosting country to out of US ? I have to make a decision between colocating our own servers nears us vs dedicated server solution at US. The problem with dedicated servers is they're…
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remote desktop access colocated windows server?

I am planning to deploy a Windows server running a web application into a colocation for the first time. I have already run IIS lockdown and done a number of other security tweaks based on advise from the smart folks here on the site. So now I am…
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Can a datacenter read my passwords if I'm using KVM over IP?

Is it truth that datacenters can read my passwords over KVN over IP interface when I ask them to connect it and I'am forced to enter ssh pass/encryption pass (OS install,etc) ? I colocated the server on datacenter in order to be sure sysadmins…
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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 be Windows 8 unless they are for basic testing…
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How to find best datacenter in China?

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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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 (and DNS, if I can't find a way to outsource the…
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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 gave me a /24 (We'll say 10.1.0.0/24). Now would you…
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MAPS software on colocated server

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 have to be installed in the office itself ? Also, is this…
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How to go about finding a professional moving company for rack hardware

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 external company for that. I googled around a bit but…
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When buying a rack-mount server and renting space, what's more important?

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 rack space, or buying less powerful servers and…
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