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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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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 an air conditioned space, one rack, A/B power and…
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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 AMPs a server can use (I.E. 2 AMPS, 8 AMPS etc.)…
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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 of this change. We purchased APC AP7941 PDUs…
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Game Server Colocation

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 coming from all over the United States Could I…
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Datacenter with fast connectivity to AWS Virgina (S3 data exchange)

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 intense tasks (i5/i7 preferably). Any…
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Out of Band Access - what's your favorite Terminal / Console Server

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, etc). Be nice if it supported RADIUS, encryption,…
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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 some kind of email gateway was necessary to send…
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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, where routed mode is quoted as being "preferred as…
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Virtual Machine NATing

I'm moving a box that's running ESXi into a server colocation room at a local ISP. This box has a few virtual machines on it, and the local ISP just provides 1 IP address (by default). Is there any problem in running a pfSense (or similar,…
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Self hosting/Colocation multiple VMs with public IP addresses on single server

I have a single server that is running some VMs. I want each of these VMs to be accessed through public IP addresses correspondingly. I'm looking into hosting the server on my own and get a block of IPs from my ISP, or by putting it in a colocation…
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Is it possible to place your own equipment with AWS/GCE/Azure?

Is it possible to host/colocate your own rack servers/equipment in Google's/Amazon's/Microsoft's data centers? Google has an option for hosted private HSM but explicitly notes that this is not a general server housing solution This offering is…
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finding which tier 1 or isp to connect to to reduce latency

I am looking to connect to 4 location p,q,r,s. I a ntrying to find the set of locations where I should connect to (isp or pop) to minimize latency . Is it lower latency to connect to a tier 1 network which would connect to 4 ip p,p,r,s ? Is there a…
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Colocation Responsibilities

I am currently hosting a few websites on three dedicated servers (unmanaged) and considering moving to owned colocated servers in order to have better control on the quality of hardware and to be reduce the middle-man that could potentially have…
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Colocation server: where to install ESXi?

Sorry if this is a newbie question. I am colocating a 1U server and want to install ESXi on it. Given that a colo provider likely won't allow a USB key sticking out of the server, what is the preferred way to install ESXi in production cases?
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Rapid failover from one data center to another when the first goes down?

I'm building a global CDN and have a DNS service that will direct customers to the closest server. However I need rapid failover if one of the data centers e.g. Germany goes down users need to be instantly served from London. The DNS service I'm…
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