How Do You Evaluate a Data Center?

mpapet writes to ask about the ins and outs of datacenter evaluation. Beyond the simpler questions of physical access control, connectivity, and power redundancy/capacity and SLA review, what other questions are important to ask when evaluating a data center? What data centers have people been happy with? What horror stories have people lived through with those that didn't make the cut?

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My Top Three

[Archangel Michael]

1) Hookers
2) Beer
3) Illicit drugs

Seriously, my top three are as follows ....

1) Bandwidth Available / Oversubscription rate
2) Geographically different alternative location.
3) Disaster Planning directives.