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From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
My thanks to the folks who took a moment to contribute; the outcome of my inquiry was "nah; I guess the price I got quoted really isn't all that bad, given the quality of the datacenter involved (which is quite nicely done).
And the fact that they don't charge cross connect fees; I just got back from touring Equinix/S&D. Plant's nice enough, especially if you need -48v... but the cross-connect charges definitely put you in the "are you shopping the right category of data center" picture: $500 setup, $225 for coax/325 for fiber. For an empty cable. Yeah, I know, I know; being surprised at the magnitude of that means this really is my first rodeo. It had to happen some time. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274