Hi,
I e-mailed this before to some individuals but since I good no answers.
No doubt Amsterdam have good peering, but the American ASN (14907) is listed only on TampaIX, which is a poorly connected.
I suggest you ask a donation or buy transport from Tampa to Miami (Nota) and/or Atlanta (56 Marietta St). Both places are much better connected. From my POV (South America) Miami would be the best.
Here (Brazil), data needs to go first to Washington/Nyc then Tampa, returning the same path. In some cases (Telefonica telco company) data goes to the Amsterdam datacenter instead. With a lot of people using already lagged dial-up connections that's not a good thing.
I suggest you ask a donation (network and Miami/Atlanta rackspace) to Sago Networks, they recently released their fiber backbone which should have plenty of free space: http://www.techlinks.net/CommunityAnnouncements/tabid/55/articleType/Article...
If you decide to go the buy route I estimate the cost of a 2.5gig wave to Miami or Atlanta would be around 5k monthly (plus cross-connect fees, taxes, rackspace, remote hands).
I think Cogent 1gig IP transport (to anywhere they have POP) is 10k mothly (plus same extra costs).
On Jan 3, 2008 11:07 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
== Networking ==
This has been mainly in capable Mark's and River's hands - where we underwent transition from hosting customer to internet service provider (or at least - equal peer to ISPs) ourselves. We have our independent autonomous systems both in Europe and US - allowing to pick best available connectivity options, resolve routing glitches, and get free traffic peering at internet exchanges. That provides quite lots of flexibility, of course, at the cost of more work and skills required.
This is also part of overall well-managed powerful datacenter strategy. Instead of low-efficiency small datacenters scattered around the world, core facility like one in Amsterdam provides high availability, close proximity to major Internet hubs and carriers, and is generally in center of region's inter-tubes. Though it would be possible to reach out into multiple donated hosting places, that would just lead to slower service for our users, and someone would still have to pay for the bandwidth. As we are pushing nearly 4 Gbps of traffic, there're not much donors who wouldn't feel such traffic.