2U to 1/4 rack Colocation Near Richmond, VA

lanefu

brainstorming and curious who's nearby. I'm sure lots of options in NoVA

NobodyInteresting

@freerangecloud has a location in VA afaik. Not sure if they do colo there though.

lanefu

@NobodyInteresting said:
@freerangecloud has a location in VA afaik. Not sure if they do colo there though.

Ha yeah I have a VPS there where I terminate my IPv6. I think I looked before and they don't...

aqua

Psychz has Ashburn

lanefu

@aqua said:
Psychz has Ashburn

pretty sure I heard an epic song about them recently?

SirFoxy

Dacentec is pretty close.

aqua

@lanefu said:

@aqua said:
Psychz has Ashburn

pretty sure I heard an epic song about them recently?

Haha, https://psychz.network -- fire song!!

jmgcaguicla

@aqua said:

@lanefu said:

@aqua said:
Psychz has Ashburn

pretty sure I heard an epic song about them recently?

Haha, https://psychz.network -- fire song!!

Unironically 🔥

Mzungu Hosting been real quiet since this dropped

DataIdeas-Josh

@lanefu said:
brainstorming and curious who's nearby. I'm sure lots of options in NoVA

Would you be interested in coming to Texas?

letbox

@lanefu said:
brainstorming and curious who's nearby. I'm sure lots of options in NoVA

We have New Jersey it close to VA

Clouvider

If you’d consider going with a dedicated server, we have Ashburn, VA.

https://www.clouvider.com/connectivity/
https://www.clouvider.com/washington-dc-equinix-dc10-equinix-datacenter/

Can’t order online yet for this PoP but if that’s of interest for you - please PM.

This location is already live with Customers.

lanefu

@Clouvider said: If you’d consider going with a dedicated server, we have Ashburn, VA.

thanks.. I already have 2 1U supermicro boxes trying to decide if it's practical to pull out of my rack at home. and place elsewhere..

I've got gigabit fios so that's why nova is appealing because latency is super low for me"

lane@blipsqueak:~/GIT/lanesible$ ping $HOST
PING $HOST (107.175.134.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 107-175-134-226-host.colocrossing.com (107.175.134.226): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=9.55 ms
64 bytes from 107-175-134-226-host.colocrossing.com (107.175.134.226): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=10.9 ms
64 bytes from 107-175-134-226-host.colocrossing.com (107.175.134.226): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=10.0 ms

Clouvider

You will often find, that a small scale collocation will be quite more expensive than a dedicated server, particularly when you require remote hands. It’s. A point often missed and a surprise when it comes to OS reinstalls, server recoveries or disk replacements. Datacenter charges for every minute spend on the job and rounds it up to full half an hour.

lanefu

@DataIdeas-Josh said: Would you be interested in coming to Texas?

I'm not entirely opposed.. but see my luxurious latency to NoVA . You have a looking glasses or something?

lanefu

@Clouvider said: You will often find, that a small scale collocation will be quite more expensive than a dedicated server, particularly when you require remote hands. It’s. A point often missed and a surprise when it comes to OS reinstalls, server recoveries or disk replacements. Datacenter charges for every minute spend on the job and rounds it up to full half an hour.

Yeah that's definitely overhead to consider. Especially disk replacement. I've got IPMI so out-of-band management shouldn't™ be too bad as long as I isolate and put behind VPN etc.

Candidly as far as bare metal and equinix I'm holding out for their new Ampere Altra boxes coming.. which I know is probably a whole other league of expense.

In the meantime wanted to start kicking the tires more with my current iron which is pretty decent... E5-2560 v3 256gig ram, and E5-2680 v4 256gig ram.

DataIdeas-Josh

@lanefu said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said: Would you be interested in coming to Texas?

I'm not entirely opposed.. but see my luxurious latency to NoVA . You have a looking glasses or something?

http://looking.dataideas.com

ploxhost

I currently have some NYC if interested. DM me if interested:)

509hosting

I know of a few DC's in RVA, and I've been looking to get colo space. What's your budget? I might take the plunge and move my core to RVA finally.

lanefu

Haha yeah lets talk. Ill dm you

DataIdeas-Josh

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@lanefu said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said: Would you be interested in coming to Texas?

I'm not entirely opposed.. but see my luxurious latency to NoVA . You have a looking glasses or something?

http://looking.dataideas.com

@lanefu how was the latency?

lanefu

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

http://looking.dataideas.com

@lanefu how was the latency?

Pretty Good! RVA == homebase

Here's me pinging you

    "msg": "Amsterdam: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 118.835/119.123/119.915/0.399 ms"
    "msg": "Arizona: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.487/26.543/26.614/0.041 ms"
    "msg": "Ashburn: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.884/28.025/28.266/0.144 ms"
    "msg": "Ashburn: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.219/31.367/31.491/0.104 ms"
    "msg": "Ashland: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 38.598/39.043/39.554/0.344 ms"
    "msg": "Buffalo: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 41.115/41.180/41.239/0.045 ms"
    "msg": "Chicago: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.739/27.909/28.015/0.093 ms"
    "msg": "Los Angeles: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 50.476/50.590/50.676/0.077 ms"
    "msg": "New York: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.281/32.369/32.455/0.074 ms"
    "msg": "RVA: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 37.554/38.678/40.267/0.982 ms"
    "msg": "Slovenia: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 136.434/136.490/136.586/0.053 ms"

and me pinging me

    "msg": "Amsterdam: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 98.962/99.702/101.020/0.693 ms"
    "msg": "Arizona: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 64.576/67.671/78.288/5.317 ms"
    "msg": "Ashburn: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 13.603/15.003/17.746/1.544 ms"
    "msg": "Ashburn: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.019/9.053/14.787/2.895 ms"
    "msg": "Ashland: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.409/22.140/23.017/0.543 ms"
    "msg": "Buffalo: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.169/31.032/32.202/0.827 ms"
    "msg": "Chicago: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.913/23.199/27.148/1.990 ms"
    "msg": "Los Angeles: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 65.541/66.372/68.927/1.305 ms"
    "msg": "New York: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.459/16.241/16.816/0.907 ms"
    "msg": "RVA: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.275/0.302/0.336/0.022 ms"
    "msg": "Slovenia: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 110.608/113.987/125.517/5.778 ms"

DataIdeas-Josh

@lanefu thats good to hear. If there is anything we can do to help out please let me know.

freerangecloud

Yeah unfortunately we're just renting space by the U so it would be cost prohibitive and a bit of a logistical nightmare to resell colo in Ashburn.

If you're still looking, I can refer you to the guy we're leasing space from and you can see if he has any more space available.

@lanefu said:

@NobodyInteresting said:
@freerangecloud has a location in VA afaik. Not sure if they do colo there though.

Ha yeah I have a VPS there where I terminate my IPv6. I think I looked before and they don't...

ropeguru

I know this thread is old, but was anything found in the RVA area? Looking myself to rack some equipment.

Hoping the dates are Aug 2021 and not some other year to make this a really old thread.

lanefu

Pixelfactory in Ashland has some decent options and really great connectivity, but ultimately opted to send my gear to @DataIdeas-Josh in Texas. His prices and SLA were a good match for my use case.