[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dave Weis]

Do you mean collocating in a Qwest CO? They are extremely picky about what 
you have in the rack. First problem would be lack of AC power, second 
would be 15" depth restriction.

It does cut down on the loop costs substantially though :-)

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Dan Clough wrote:

> Which providers are jacked in at the CB office?  If Cogent or PinPoint
> has lit fiber out there I could get in touch with my Cogent rep and
> see how well they can limbo on a 20Mbps commit.
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM,  <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
>> I like the idea, I've always wanted to do something like that. I thought about registering the name "ghettodatacenter.com" or something and leasing a small office at the kanesville CO in CB, no loopback charges and plenty of bandwidth for a couple racks. Just basic airconditioning and a few 20-30A circuits.
>>
>> 24/7 access too :)
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:11:13
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
>> Subject: [olug] Community Colo Project
>>
>>
>> Over the last week ideas have been bounced around regarding the
>> possibility of a community colocation project.  This sounds like a
>> wonderful idea to me considering Omaha's lack of small-fish colo
>> places and the general abundance of bandwidth, and I'd like to know
>> what OLUG thinks about contributing to such an operation.
>>
>> Ever since Jay closed up shop I've been looking for a good place to
>> put my servers, with my main concerns being static IP addressing and
>> no port restrictions (I'm looking at you, Cox).  A community colo
>> would free up some room in our basements and maybe even prove the
>> viability of colocating in Omaha.
>>
>> Finances are of course the most limiting factor, so keeping it cheap
>> and simple is the key to success.  I think one rack, 10 or 20Mbps and
>> a /26 or /27 block of IPv4 addresses would be more than enough to
>> start out with.  What do you guys think about such a venture?
>>
>> Dan
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