[nzlug] Co-location

[Jeremy Naylor]

Mathew Carley wrote:
> This has probably come up a few times before, but I need 
> co-location/server leasing for a new service I want to launch in NZ. 
> There will be almost zero international bandwidth, except for my 
> administration requirements and perhaps the occasional security update, 
> but (hopefully) a lot of national bandwidth.
> 
> It needs to be scalable - it would probably start out at perhaps 30GB 
> per month but would need to expand maybe up to 3,000GB per month - ALL 
> national traffic. I'd probably want to contract a LUG member for the 
> admin tasks I can't handle from here: local configuration/installation 
> and hardware stuff.
> 
> The Data Centre should be in a major city (Auckland, Hamilton, 
> Wellington, Christchurch) - as I imagine most of them are. It probably 
> would be a good idea if I was able to peer with Xtra too (as much as I 
> dislike the idea) - I understand that they've moved out of APE.
> 
> As for server specs, I would need probably 1U with at least 120GB Hard 
> Disk (or more), a reasonable amount of RAM and CPU, 1 or 2 IP addresses. 
> All it really needs to run is SFTP, and SSH, some encryption software 
> and maybe a couple of other services.
> 
> The server would be for storage, rather than WWW - all the WWW traffic 
> would be handled by an web-server. I've already put the word out to the 
> likes of Orcon and Interspeed (I think) a couple of months back - does 
> anyone else have any ideas about whom I should approach? Jeremy - would 
> Citylink do this kind of thing?

Hey Mathew and all,

As far as I know, Xtra are de-peered from both WIX & APE at the moment.

Yep - CityLink do indeed do co-location in both the Wgtn & Akld CBDs at 
the moment.

You can get info about CityLink's SiteNET service on their web site if 
you want to, at http://www.citylink.co.nz/services/telehousing.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
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Jeremy Naylor
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