Former employer was in Expedient’s DC. You can honestly do better than Expedient. Look into the Power Redundancy, Cooling Efficiency of the building, if the site is a purpose built DC (Expedient in Cleveland is not). Is Cloud Connect for backups important? Have you identified your requirements? If you need a starting point look at the following: Data Center Certification (from the Uptime Institute), Distance, Compliance (if needed), Level of Controlled Access, Power SLA, N+1 Cooling, Multi-Homed ISPs, Uptime %, Monitoring, NOC, Purpose Built DC.

 

Involta has a really good data center in Independence, Akron, and a very impressive site near Pittsburgh. They would give you the option of having Hot/Hot datacenters with their connectivity. I’m not sure if you have to be in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but Cyxtera has an AMAZING data center in Columbus. (The DC can withstand winds up 140 MPH, is on the Century Link backbone, and has a solid rubber roof with no holes or cooling systems on the roof.)

 

Thank you,

 

David Kehoe

 

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1. Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location
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3. Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location (Shawn Ritchie)
4. Re: Announcing Peering-LAN prefixes to customers (Andy Davidson)
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6461, 6762, 6830, 8220, 9002, 12956 (Job Snijders)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 10:50:45 -0500
From: "Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)"
<allenmckinleykitchen@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streinerj@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location
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+1 for Expedient. Not a current customer but a VERY satisfied former customer. (Decision to leave them was a foul case of penny-pincher mismanagement, above my pay grade and over my objections.)

..Allen

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 01:00, Justin M. Streiner <streinerj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Mitchell Lewis wrote:
>>
>> I am working on project that may involve building points of presence in Cleveland & Cincinnati. Any suggestions as to which colocation facility in each city to build in? The prime factor of consideration for this project is access to waves to places like Chicago, New York & Ashburn. It would be nice to have multiple wave provider options to choose from.
>>
>> I have been looking at Cyrus One-7thStreet in Cincinnati & Databank in Cleveland.
>
> Expedient has two facilities in Cleveland that might be worth looking at.
>
> Thank you
> jms

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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:21:32 -0600
From: Shawn Ritchie <me@shawnritchie.com>
To: "Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)" <allenmckinleykitchen@gmail.com>
Cc: "Justin M. Streiner" <streinerj@gmail.com>, NANOG
<nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location
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On Jan 3, 2019, at 9:50 AM, Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) <allenmckinleykitchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1 for Expedient. Not a current customer but a VERY satisfied former customer. (Decision to leave them was a foul case of penny-pincher mismanagement, above my pay grade and over my objections.)
>
> ..Allen
>
>> On Jan 3, 2019, at 01:00, Justin M. Streiner <streinerj@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Mitchell Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> I am working on project that may involve building points of presence in Cleveland & Cincinnati. Any suggestions as to which colocation facility in each city to build in? The prime factor of consideration for this project is access to waves to places like Chicago, New York & Ashburn. It would be nice to have multiple wave provider options to choose from.
>>>
>>> I have been looking at Cyrus One-7thStreet in Cincinnati & Databank in Cleveland.
>>
>> Expedient has two facilities in Cleveland that might be worth looking at.
>>
>> Thank you
>> jms

I’m in Expedient’s Cleveland DC and will second that they’re decent.

—
Shawn

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