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Re: [ProgSoc] co-lo in Sydney



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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