[Novalug] Need advice on colo space..

[cerberus]

And by "ship" they mean put in a box and Fedex... HOWEVER, according to the AWS architect guy that taught an AWS 101 class in Herndon last week, since the Ashburn, Va. AWS datacenter is so close, you could probably make arrangements to drop it off if you didn't want to ship the storage (due to cost or fear of being lost/stolen).   No guarantee he wasn't full of it, but may be worth investigating if interested.  

I *don't* work for Amazon but recently started using AWS for $workstuff.

-dave

On Mar 2, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:

> And obligatory disclaimer for those who didn't know, I work for
> Amazon, but I don't get any kickbacks for referring business, just the
> fuzzy satisfactions. :)
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 21:22, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <shadowhunter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's the total amount of data you're planning on storing?
>> 
>> AWS has an Import/Export product where you ship them a drive, and they
>> securely import it to an S3 or EBS volume for cheaper than uploading
>> it to the cloud yourself.
>> 
>> http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
>> 
>> This may be cheaper than a colo.
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 20:18, Dan Lavu <dan at lavu.net> wrote:
>>> How much transfer are you talking about? Most connections are pretty fast
>>> now that you can download at least 2MB/s (7.2GB/hour) from a good local data
>>> center.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I just shopped around for some space and found the average to be $100-150 a
>>> month with reasonable bandwidth, but your bandwidth price will jack up the
>>> price.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dan
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>>> 
>>> From: novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
>>> [mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Igor Birman
>>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:04 PM
>>> To: NOVALUG
>>> Subject: [Novalug] Need advice on colo space..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have a customer that has a need to upload large amounts of data to a
>>> server so that it can be downloaded by his employees.  I suggested that we
>>> install his server at a colocation facility where he would be able to
>>> physically come and transfer data from an external drive.  I don't really
>>> know how this works or how much it would cost.  Can someone on this list
>>> help me find a space or offer to rent a slot in a rack in Reston or Herndon?
>>> 

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