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I have been in their Manhattan facility before. I must say that the place was pretty sweet as far as datacenters go. It was the perfect east coast style place - no overpriced bullshit cappuccino style rackmount shit - they had the exact equipment they needed to run a solid stable datacenter. It wasn't fancy and it was definately not ghetto - and to be honest, if I ran a hosting facility, I would probably have mine look very similar to theirs, including very similar equipment.
They had a LOT of hosting customers there. I was surprised when I got there to see exactly how big their place was. They had a couple rooms and some cages at Network Plus.
Seriously, I have been in many datacenters in my life and I think theirs was at the time the single most efficient and well supported system I had run across to date. We spent many months there blissfully happy - until the Verio hell started.
But not many people know this, and if you don't, think about it. Verio is a REALLY bad provider. I have had them in several datacenters as well as a T1 in my house, and the only thing historically worse than their service was their billing. Their service has been pretty stable lately, but their billing department just went off the deep end - something major is happening over there and it seems that they REALLY want to get paid for the service WELL in advance of the service being provided. This is scary. I don't know what's going on over there but it can't be good.
People aren't using less bandwidth in 2003. Every year, more people buy broadband, people need more hosting, and global data throughput increases. I don't understand how they're not banking on this. I think GBLX is really ripping into the other big backbones. And that's a good thing. If you can't compete, fix things. In Verio's case I think the network is better because they have less usage this year, so they have fewer problems. And I think they're drowning in stupidity.
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