Choosing a NOC

[dan2758]

[aran7151]

You need to decide what you are looking for in a NOC. You mentioned VDI, so I"m assuming you are looking for a WHM/CPanel NOC. If so, I would highly recommend Burst.Net.

[mike8923]

[aran7151]

Originally posted by CagedTornado
Who's VDI?

http://www.vdi.net/
Nasty looking site, but a well used company by quite a few hosts.

Greg Moroe

[mike8923]

I personally would not recommend BurstNET..they have many support issues and parts going bad (the UPS on the racks).

I recommend VDI though - I'm at their datacenter now

[aran7151]

I think there is alot more to hosting then just picking a NOC.

THere are alot of different technologies out there.

Ensim
Plesk
CPanel
and the new ones.

I mean having multiple NOC's is the way we went about it. Multiple points of hosting.

In regards to advertising, its good to get in every directory and then start a compaign.

I think the hosting world is more indepth then parking a server and starting up. Also if you like sleep, wrong business.

In regards to private servers, Multiple Dedicateds on 1 physical box, to some it makes alot of sense. They want to be on there own box, but dont want the overhead of alot of money a month.
Joe

[mike8923]

There are many NOC's

Pegasus
Dtwebworks
Equinix,
Switch & Data
UUnet
Verio
Savvis
Cable and Wireless
Dialtone INternet
Aperian
Weiner Communications
Sprint
Colo.com
Datacolo
Nac
Yipes in CA
Genuity
st3

I imagine theres a ton more, in really depends what your defination of NOc's

If its the company that actually owns the datacenter, or are you looking for people that colo at a datacenter

Your call

[dan2758]

I'm looking for people like VDI or burst.net who provide the server with an alocated amount of traffic per month... etc etc. For around 300 bucks monthly.

Brian

[aran7151]

SO overall your looking for a dedicated server

<<EDIT>>

Joe

[mike8923]

<< parts going bad (the UPS on the racks) >>

mkaufman: Don't even try an make that sound like our fault.
Parts go bad...no matter what...even if you are Verio or Exodus.
We do not manufacture the hardware...and it's not like it happens all the time.
We had one incident almost two months ago where a shipment of UPS systems failed, and took out two racks.
We replaced them VERY quickly, and there have been no further problems.
All in all we feel the situation was handled very well.

I would love to see a new NOC open up, and have them order in a ton of new hardware, and not have a single piece of defective hardware shipped to them.....it's not going to happen...defective hardware is part of the business...What is more important, is how fast it is replaced, and the situation dealt with, if it does occur...and to that we performed pretty darn well considering the situation.

And as far as support...check out the recent posts about our satisfied dedicated server clients...
We feel currect client opnions are more important than a comment from someone who is not a client, and is doing business with a rival NOC.

Sean R.
BurstNET