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Re: [ProgSoc] co-lo in Sydney



The company I work for is hosted at the Equinix IBX facility at Mascot.

It's on 2 electrical grids, has N+1 inertial UPS and N+1 diesel genny's to support normal ops for a week if the 2 grids fail. Man trap entry door configs with Biometric(palmprint)+card+PIN access control, 99.999% uptime SLAs on op temp range and humidity and power (22degC+-2degC, RH 50%+-10%). Internet connection is quad tiered with NTT, Quest, Verizon and Docomo with a 99.95% service availability SLA. You can use their facilities and get your own connections patched in (ADSL/ISDN/FibreBroadband)

 
onto rough pricing:
Single 10 outlet IEC main power rail: $330/mo
Single 10 outlet IEC redundant power rail (on the 2nd grid): $150/mo
Cross connects: $66 to $100/mo for comms depending on what it is if you arrange for your own internet connection.
We're getting a quad tiered service (99.95% uptime SLA) that's 3Mbps full duplex bursting up to 9Mbps during peak demand (no quota). That's costing us around the $1900/mo mark I believe.
Full height 44U or 47U (can't remember which) rack: about $800/mo. They do half racks though.
My pricing is a little out though because we moved to a caged area late last year from the managed racks service.

Equinix Australia Pty. Limited ACN: 092 807 264 Unit B 639 Gardeners Rd Mascot NSW Australia 2020 Main:+612.8337.2000 Fax:+612.8337.2020


I do know that Harbour MSP in Ultimo have a managed service offering where you can pay per server and service as opposed to rackspace. Having looked at what you're after that might be more up your alley. Don't know about pricing though.

Cheers,
Andi.

On 6/27/07, John Elliot <jj5@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Thomas Given-Wilson wrote:
> Co-lo can be quite expensive, might help if you provided more details
> on what you mean by:
> - cheap

Relatively speaking. I haven't arranged to have a box co-located before,
so I'm not aware of how much it costs. I'd like to understand my
options.

I've worked for companies that have had boxes co-located before. I
recall it wasn't that expensive. I've been sent on missions to server
rooms stuck on magic floors in buildings in the CBD and flashed
credentials to get physical access to said boxes and been sent into the
back room to find our box in the rack. I'm thinking along those lines.
Don't recall any details, that was years ago.

> - "plugged into the internets"

One public IP would be fine. Occasional downtime is no big deal.

It would be a test system for demonstrating applications under
development.

> If you had some idea about the following it may be useful:
> - bandwidth

Residential DSL speeds and QoS would be fine. There wouldn't be very
much data transfer.

> - required access (ports, ip address ranges, physical)

I'd want to be able to access it via a VPN. Haven't thought much else
about it. (It's actually an IBM BladeCenter w/ 14 machines, but I don't
need 14 machines on the internet. Just one, and a number of them on a
private network.)

If I can get an idea of the ballpark cost and find someone to talk to
about it, then I'd want to ask them for advice regarding the
configuration in the light of reality.

I'm not paying for it, someone else is. So I won't be making the
decision, but I'd like to get it done. I'm not sure its feasible for a
number of other reasons, but that's beside the point.

> - any special ports or firewall rules

I'd want to be able to NAT (at least) port 80 to one machine.

> - ip addressing (do you have one, do you need one, etc.)

I'd need one.

> - any special needs

Air-conditioning. Physical security. Physical access as required.

> Some data centres will also do a ecurity audit on your system before
> they allow it inside their network.

OK.

> More info will solicit better responses I suspect.

How's that?







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