On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:13:17PM +0200, Eden Akhavi wrote:
Belnet/Belgium
-- 1 rack of space, unlimited bandwidth, they are ready
to go Monday, they can do full hands-on, etc., including replacing
borken hard drives and so on like that. They are excited to move
forward quickly. In this case, we must supply the hardware. We can
either buy hardware (with the German money?) or I can ask someone to buy
it for us (see Big Company X, below).
Amsterdam - a large NGO wants to do a big press
announcement when I'm
there in Holland at the end of this month. They are providing a set of
servers which have already been ordered. I do not know the exact
specifications, perhaps someone else can tell me?
If we are talking Europe, I think the key here is to consider where the
traffic comes from and who has good connectivity to that audience.
[detailed discussion]
Looking from Germany, the two data centers seem to be well connected.
Traceroute shows direct connection from all major providers, using
peering points in Amsterdam an London. Ping times are in the 20-25ms
range. The ping time to Florida is 130ms. LINX-connected Janet is
about 22ms, quite similar to the two data centers in benelux.
So from a network POV, I think that the Benelux locations are quite
good.
Regards,
JeLuF