[olug] Co-lo in SE Nebraska

[Dave Weis]

Is Des Moines too far away? We can restore at 80 mph. :-)

Dave


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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Obi-Wan
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 11:46 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Co-lo in SE Nebraska

> It's been a while since this topic has come up.  What options are there
> for co-location (not VPS or web hosting, but true co-location) in the
> Lincoln/Omaha area?
> 
> My company is looking for a place to host a backup file server, so
> we'll need a few U and a heckuva lot of bandwidth.  I'm not sure if
> KC is too far away for us or not.  Probably.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.  My boss now says he's also willing
to explore non-local services where we could merely purchase off-site
storage without necessarily having our own physical hardware.  We're
talking ~5 TB, I'm guessing.  Does such a service exist anywhere?  This
is way beyond the scale of most cloud backups targetted at home users.

Personally, I'm not sure how well that would work as a backup, because
it would take eons to restore that much data over the wire unless they
could overnight us a few hard drives.  But he asked...

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