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.
Questions tagged [colocation]
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Did my colocation provider give me the wrong gateway given the address block?
I'm colocating a 1U server with a 1U pfsense firewall (first time doing this) and the datacenter gave me the following:
IPv4 address block: x.x.x.225/28
Gateway: x.x.x.226
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.240
Using the available online subnet calculators,…
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mini-SAS SFF-8087 xy connector and 24 hard drives?
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24x drive 4U case with 4U Expander Backplane
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/846/sc846e16-r1200.cfm
MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i RAID Card
http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9260-4i.aspx
One sff-8087…
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Co-location: How to be sure the DC does not replace my server
I'm planning to purchase an expensive server and send it to a datacenter to co-locate.
As this is my first server, there is a question in my mind and would be appreciated if you answer it.
How could I be sure the datacenter will not replace my…
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colocation of a server
Hi I currently host my site we a hosting provider and that is going well, however they have just been sold and I want to use a server (either Poweredge 6850 or Poweredge 2950) which will be put inside a datacentre.
Here is what I am needing more…
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Measure ip/port traffic
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 that at router level, since it's rented from link…
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Why is ping from New Jersey faster than from Tokyo to binance (in Tokyo)?
I am thinking of using vultr as VPS. When I do a ping to binance api.binance.com which have their servers in Japan on the site https://hnd-jp-ping.vultr.com I get much worse ping from Japan than if I choose to ping from New Jersey. Why do I get…
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Commercial Dedicated vs Shared Residential Internet
I recently purchased a server to mess around with. I want to be able to host a few of my own sites, but my home internet is about 5Mbps up and down. I was looking into colo at my local DC and they are asking $50/mo for 1Mbps up/down. They are saying…
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Colocating mystery server
My employer has tasked me with bringing a server over to a local web hosting facility. The server has vsphere pre-installed with numerous virtual servers installed(5 servers, 3 linux, 2 windows). After bringing this server to the web host they have…
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