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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

by 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.