From: david raistrick Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:44 PM To: Jeroen van Aart Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: co-location and access to your server
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
I guess knowing who entered the building by means of a keycard and having cameras isn't considered enough to deter potential "evil doers". I know it's not enough for places like equinix, but that's of a different caliber.
Paying for 1u of colo justifys a keycard for you, cameras and keycard hardware for the facility? you're paying what, 50-100$ a month, maybe less? you realize that low prices comes at the cost of reduced services?
I would say even that hosting other people's hardware on a "one off" basis isn't even really cost effective. Better, in my opinion, for the service provider to simply buy a rack from Rackable or another vendor and rent the servers out to people. At least you are then dealing with a known entity as far as hardware goes. Housing who knows what gives you a potential mix of things like front to back, back to front, and side to side airflow; an assortment of network issues due to an assortment of NICs in the network; people wanting physical access to their servers for things like driver replacement, etc. Even having someone willing to allow individuals to house their own single servers in a rack is amazing. Complaining about the service as far as access just seems like looking the gift horse in the mouth!