I used Visi as my first ISP in 97, went to downtown mpls and a got a tour of their setup, i thought it was cool as shit at the time, never seen anything like the insides of an isp before. On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 10:54, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I use Visi for my ISP, I can't say I've had 1 full hour of down time in > about 2 years. > > I like Visi because they are local and the support staff is great. Yes > they are right down town. > > > Perhaps everyone in the group could do a review of their ISP's, co > locator's, etc.. and put it up on the TCLUG site. This would help people > get a feel for the ISP's and co locator's in the area. > > > > Duncan Shannon wrote: > > >>>> Besides visi.com, anyone know of reputable colo space here in the Twin > >>>> Cities or nearby area? Looking for 1/2 rack with at least 512K > >>> > >>> > >>> Im satisfied with Onvoy. I have a full rack there (had a half rack for > >>> a year, was able to get the other half rack below me for a full rack) > >> > >> > >> If they where still mr.net, I'd say yeah, but Onvoy, no. Most of > >> their best > >> technical talent left (imho). > > > > > > > > Interesting. Back when we picked our colo provider, it was either > > Onvoy or Visi. The pricing was about the same. I work in Long Lake > > (just west of wayzata) so the plymouth location of Onvoy was > > favorable, as opposed to downtown st. paul (where visi is right?) > > > > I went to check out their data center, it seemed pretty ok. The only > > other datacenter/colo places i had been in were Exodus/Cable and > > Wireless in Boston (which was huge, held places like excite which was > > very entertaining to gawk at all the hardware). Onvoy is obviously > > much smaller but seemed ok. > > > > In the end, the decision was made pretty easy (for my boss at least) > > when we looked at the financials of each company. Onvoy had been > > around a while (at least as the 13 other local telco's that they > > existed as) and had money in the bank where as VISI had not been > > around all that long and hard a lot of debt to their name. Onvoy was > > clearly the more stable company when looking at it financially. I was > > pretty sure i didnt want to have switch data centers if one went under. > > > > duncan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list