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"But now I manage servers all over the world, and it's impossible to see them physically, even the ones that are hosted nearby." Did you know that we have "dri

by rsync 6y ago

"But now I manage servers all over the world, and it's impossible to see them physically, even the ones that are hosted nearby." Did you know that we have "drive up" access ? If your account is in San Diego, you can just drive up to the datacenter and connect to our Ubiquiti LR AP. No Internet required. We had it deployed in Denver as well but we moved datacenters a few years ago and are in a tall high rise[1] with difficult access to ground level or roof for antennae ... [1] The "Gas and Electric" building which is the big carrier hotel in Denver ...

Arelius 6y ago
Any capacity to plug in an good old-fashioned Ethernet cable?
- rsync 6y ago
  Well, yes and no ... Of course we have switches in our racks and of course we could find a way to plug you in ... However, there would be a lot of administrative overhead just to get you inside the datacenter in question, not to mention how we would clear you and your equipment, etc. We regularly accept bare SATA drives as ingress and we support that process in reverse - most likely we would steer you towards that route ...
linsomniac 6y ago
I imagined when reading "tall high rise" that you were in DG&E. I'm not sure where you were at or if you are looking for something else, but we've long been in "Fortrust", now "Iron Mountain" which is north of downtown. In the past they've been very easy to work with, including at one point I used to have a dark fiber that ran from one of my cabinets to DG&E's meet me, where we used it to connect to Level-3. I know some of their customers have antennas on the outside of the building, though I don't believe I'm supposed to know why so I won't go into details. :-) They have plenty of parking, might be worth investigating. DG&E is a weird and wonderful building. Used to have a client that had a suite in there. For those unaware, it is an old, old building, right next to the building that houses the Denver main telco switch. It was built over a hundred years ago, and has been Denver's largest (? maybe that info is out of date) meet-me room for Internet providers. Being such an old building, you can imagine it has all sorts of problems retrofitting modern requirements for cabling and power generation/backup.
- rsync 6y ago
  Yeah - I don't love DG&E as a physical plant - I much prefer a very American-style one-story, big parking lot, urban sprawl kind of a datacenter ... The issue is the he.net POP. We did use a fiber interconnect across Denver for several years to the coresite datacenter on (Denver) Pearl St. That was free because of a weird handshake deal we had from back in the day but when it stopped being free we really needed to go to DG&E to get 10gb links from Hurricane ... I will also note that we partner with DenverOnline / Firstlink consulting which has their base inside DG&E so that also made good sense. These are all business and personal relationships that go back to the mid-nineties and the Boulder bandwidth coop - we have a really great service and support infrastructure in Denver.
  - linsomniac 6y ago
    Thanks for that reply, loved the geeky details. I'm also an old Boulder co-op user here, I was heavily involved in the Fort Collins version for quite a while, and had various connections including UUCP dialup, SLIP, and T1s to the Boulder co-op. I hadn't realized that rsync.net had drive up service until this thread. Very cool service, even if we don't have it in Denver anymore.

by rsync 6y ago

Arelius 6y ago

Any capacity to plug in an good old-fashioned Ethernet cable?

rsync 6y ago
Well, yes and no ... Of course we have switches in our racks and of course we could find a way to plug you in ... However, there would be a lot of administrative overhead just to get you inside the datacenter in question, not to mention how we would clear you and your equipment, etc. We regularly accept bare SATA drives as ingress and we support that process in reverse - most likely we would steer you towards that route ...

linsomniac 6y ago

I imagined when reading "tall high rise" that you were in DG&E. I'm not sure where you were at or if you are looking for something else, but we've long been in "Fortrust", now "Iron Mountain" which is north of downtown. In the past they've been very easy to work with, including at one point I used to have a dark fiber that ran from one of my cabinets to DG&E's meet me, where we used it to connect to Level-3. I know some of their customers have antennas on the outside of the building, though I don't believe I'm supposed to know why so I won't go into details. :-) They have plenty of parking, might be worth investigating. DG&E is a weird and wonderful building. Used to have a client that had a suite in there. For those unaware, it is an old, old building, right next to the building that houses the Denver main telco switch. It was built over a hundred years ago, and has been Denver's largest (? maybe that info is out of date) meet-me room for Internet providers. Being such an old building, you can imagine it has all sorts of problems retrofitting modern requirements for cabling and power generation/backup.

rsync 6y ago
Yeah - I don't love DG&E as a physical plant - I much prefer a very American-style one-story, big parking lot, urban sprawl kind of a datacenter ... The issue is the he.net POP. We did use a fiber interconnect across Denver for several years to the coresite datacenter on (Denver) Pearl St. That was free because of a weird handshake deal we had from back in the day but when it stopped being free we really needed to go to DG&E to get 10gb links from Hurricane ... I will also note that we partner with DenverOnline / Firstlink consulting which has their base inside DG&E so that also made good sense. These are all business and personal relationships that go back to the mid-nineties and the Boulder bandwidth coop - we have a really great service and support infrastructure in Denver.
- linsomniac 6y ago
  Thanks for that reply, loved the geeky details. I'm also an old Boulder co-op user here, I was heavily involved in the Fort Collins version for quite a while, and had various connections including UUCP dialup, SLIP, and T1s to the Boulder co-op. I hadn't realized that rsync.net had drive up service until this thread. Very cool service, even if we don't have it in Denver anymore.