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Originally Posted by unmgroup
It is at FDC's . What is wrong with FDC's datacenter?
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I have a early business meeting, so I will try to be short, the ONLY thing FDC has going for it, is its location. Being in the same building as the Chicago Options Clearing Corporation means you will never have a power outage, but if you want a real eyeopener, ask for a quick tour!
I went in there a few years back with my lead geek and one of our security guys, the place reminded us of the good old days of ghetto datacenters, these guys had no clue about service level agreements, temperture management, security, DNS, denial of service attacks, you name it!
They're also a bunch of narcs too. There was one local guy that sent in a white box with like 5 hard drives, it was of their opinion that the guy had to be running a warez server and called the FBI. Nevermind if he was running a raid network for keeping his shit backed up since I have seen college dorm networks run better than this place.
If you have your heart set on hosting there, buy a whitebox server from CompUSA and host it at FDC for a month, make sure there is nothing mission critical on it, because you are going to want to pull that box pretty fucking quickly, its only because you have the owners promising that things will be better next month that they stay in business, or getting a bunch of clients that don't know better (
or are aware of the five nines) and think this is the tits on the boar for what they are getting.
But fuck, don't take a local's word for it, host away!