[olug] Omaha-area Datacenters/Colocation

[Daniel Linder]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 22:28, S. Farnam wrote:
> 1)  Are there any respectable datacenters in town?  Specifically I'm
> looking
> for carrier-neutral (or at least multi-homed) colocation centers.  I've
> got
> two rackmount Gentoo boxes that need a static-IP home.  Also, decent
> bandwidth is a must.  :) (Anywhere from 10-20Mbps would be nice for the
> mirrors I'm going to run.)

You might want to do some checking in the Council Bluffs area - they might
have some hidden gems over there that I don't know about.

Off the top of my head, there are some data centers you could check out:
* RebootTheUser.com
 -- lowest price, but I believe it is a single T1 to the Internet.

* CoSentry.com
 -- Note: I was one of the primary engieers who designed and built their
network when it was IPRevolution.net
 -- Higher price than RTU, but they have multiple connections to (three?)
carriers and are easy enough to work with and have 24x7 support staff if
you need in at 3AM. :)
 -- Located in Bellevue Nebraska, but have (or will have) other
co-location centers in other major metro locations.

* First National Bank Technology Solutions
 -- Higher price than CoSentry.
 -- They are located in downtown Omaha which is a pro or con depending on
your location.

* Cox at Work
 -- Between RTU and CoSentry in price
 -- You can host this in your own basement
 -- Cablemodem connection - upload is either 768Kbit or 1Mbit, download is
about 5-7Mbit.
 -- Additional IP addresses are $5/month I believe.

* Linode.com
 -- They host your system on a virtual node on their server.
 -- Not located in Omaha (that I know of -- but I'd love to help them if
they want to put a few here!)
 -- Can't speak to their BW or redundant carrier options.
 -- I think it was roughly $20/month per server, with options for Gentoo,
Ubuntu, RedHat, Centos, Debian, etc.

Dan

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