From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 29 10:05:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19243 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hartley.mintel.co.uk (hartley.mintel.co.uk [194.217.87.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19237 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.co.uk) Received: from mintel.co.uk ([10.0.0.233]) by hartley.mintel.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA01226 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:58:22 GMT Message-ID: <36B1F76F.E91F285F@mintel.co.uk> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:01:20 +0000 From: Jason Thomson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Colocation Services? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can anyone provide co-location services for a (FreeBSD) web server? (Or recommend a provider who can). It needs to be FreeBSD because we use a custom FreeBSD application (although it could probably be ported). Background: We are looking to locate a FreeBSD server somewhere close to the Internet backbone to provide access to a database product over the Web. We will be servicing a relatively small number of customers (tens of concurrent users) with graphically rich content. We are looking to improve response times for customers in the US (and indeed in Europe and Australia). Overall, we won't be transferring huge amounts of data (of the order of 200MB/day peak), we just need to serve pages quickly. The database will be updated periodically remotely (and efficiently). (Initially weekly, later daily, possibly several times a day). Factors Being Considered: + Cost. + Connectivity (high available BW in the US, but also good Intercontinental links). + IP address range - at least 4, (aliased) addresses for different databases. + Possibility of you providing the server (or even CPU time / disk space on one of your servers). + Geographical location (this may not be an issue if we get a fully managed service). Chicago preferred. Thanks in anticipation of your responses. Regards, Jason Thomson, Director Of IT Mintel International Group Ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message