On Thursday 20 March 2008 05:52:14 pm Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Josh Trutwin wrote:
> > Ah yes, I saw visi and hit reply before even seeing OP's full email. A
> > really good colo in the cities (or anywhere) is hard to find, we're
> > still with Visi for that, but I'd certainly be curious if anyone has
> > recommendations, something more along the North/West side of the metro?
>
> ipHouse (they are in Minneapolis) does a good job, at least I've had great
> luck with them. I've got my personal rack'o'gear there.
>
> Time Warner Telecom has a DC in Minnetonka.. they are expensive, though;
> at least unless you need a big chunk of bandwidth.
>
> BHI's got a DC in Eden Prairie; http://www.bhi.com/colocation.htm
>
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I've got gear in IPHouse and USInternet.  USI is pricey, but they have real 
live people in their datacenter 24/7, and real people watching the cameras at 
least enough so that a friend of mine that works for them has mentioned 
seeing me there in the DC working on stuff.  In about 3 years or so I've 
never had faults on USI's side knock my stuff off.  IPHouse has had a bit of 
silly downtime due to rebooting redundant systems simultaniously, and their 
bandwidth pricing is also not incredibly cheap, but it's cheaper than USI by 
a bit.  They also seem to have heat issues in their DC, lots and lots of open 
floor and ambient temps that get me a tad nervous once in a while.  Either 
one has been easy to work with, as far as getting ip space allocated and/or 
provisioning bandwidth.

I've been using visi as my residential ISP for ages.  They support my cisco 
DSL gear, route a /28 down to me without making me jump through hoops, and 
are very nice about running servers and responding quickly to rDNS requests.  
I've toured their datacenter, I forget what made IPHouse a more compelling 
choice though....

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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