Here are some points you should look at in a co-location company:
1 - Secure, unaccompanied access on a 7x24 basis at no extra charge.
2 - The number of peering relationships with other providers.
3 - Number of transit connections to distinct service providers.
4 - Complete redundancy of power supply(s)(all the way back to the sub-station.)
5 - Co-location service is the core product offering (not a after thought.) This is important! It means that the company has invested into a support infrastructure and is geared to perform this service.
6 - Individual co-location space is secured from all other customer space (i.e. no open racks or cabinets without customer controlled keys).
7 - On-demand (web-based) reporting of bandwidth utilization and other events.
8 - Offers managed services such as firewalling, backups, vpn, load balancing, etc.
9 - Complete redundancy of cooling systems (cooling systems not dependant on city water supply).
10 - High physical security
11 - Burst up to 100 Mbps at no extra charge
12 - Additional bandwidth billed in 1 MB increments
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Here are some points you should look at in a co-location company:
1 - Secure, unaccompanied access on a 7x24 basis at no extra charge.
2 - The number of peering relationships with other providers.
3 - Number of transit connections to distinct service providers.
4 - Complete redundancy of power supply(s)(all the way back to the sub-station.)
5 - Co-location service is the core product offering (not a after thought.) This is important! It means that the company has invested into a support infrastructure and is geared to perform this service.
6 - Individual co-location space is secured from all other customer space (i.e. no open racks or cabinets without customer controlled keys).
7 - On-demand (web-based) reporting of bandwidth utilization and other events.
8 - Offers managed services such as firewalling, backups, vpn, load balancing, etc.
9 - Complete redundancy of cooling systems (cooling systems not dependant on city water supply).
10 - High physical security
11 - Burst up to 100 Mbps at no extra charge
12 - Additional bandwidth billed in 1 MB increments