Best Places to Co-Locate?

Stephen wrote in a while ago with this question: "Where's the best place to co-locate my Linux box in California? I heard there are loads of server farms in the San Fran to the L.A area. Which one is the best and most cost effective? Well most of us will agree that the Internet is much larger than California, so lets open this up a bit: What are the best places to co-locate ANYWHERE

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Re:Places to CoLocate

[yod@]

Don't do Exodus. I work for a consulting firm, and have worked with Exodus through our clients. thier service isn't to par and thier facilities are lacking. Try www.level3.net, They are about a year old. They have 17 locations in the US and London. Level3 will be at 25 (or so) Gateways by year end. They are laying 532 strands of fiber for thier backbone with conduit space to multiply that by a factor of 10. (for those that don't know 4 fibre strands = OC192 = 192 T3's = 5376 T1's = 8,064 Mb/s) times this by 133 (532 strands /4) and you get 1,072,512 Mb/s or one Terabit/second backbone.. this will span all of the Major US Cities. When you colo there you get 2 100Mb ethernet jacks that you can do what you want with. (Exodus gives you 1 10Mb)The Facilities themselves are the Best I have ever seen Clean and well thought out. 16" raised floors with AC running through the floor and all wiring is handled by a double decker wire ladder 1 for power 1 for data.. You get 2 15amp power strips on separate breakers. 1 Full Rack (23" racks X 7' tall) and 1Mb of bwidth (average monthly you can burst to the full potential of 100Mb/s) runs about $1,500/mo and I think aditional meg is like $800. The company was started by the people who started MFS (Mae West/East before MCI bought them)

sorry for the rant, but we have 5 Racks there and it's been the best Datacenter Ive ever worked with.