[TriLUG] Online Cloud Offsite Backup

[Ron Kelley]

Thanks to everyone for the interest.  I have unicasted an email to a few folks already, but it appears others are interested.  So, here is the skinny:

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My partner and I have three data center racks here in Raleigh (one at Peak-10 off Airport Blvd, one at Hosted Solutions in Cary, and one at Hosted Solutions in N Raleigh).   All of our racks have dual power feeds with redundant network drops, and we use Cisco 3560G switches as our core backbone.  Currently, we are supporting two customers (QA/Dev/Test in Cary and production in Raleigh).  We have plenty of space and bandwidth available (100Mbps burst) in either location.

Our cost from the data center is about $60/RU (includes rack space and dual power feeds), and we are charged separately for network connectivity (based upon how many Mbps we use per month).  This is a top-tier data center with 24/7/365 power, network, and high-level security (definitely not a mom-n-pop shop).  We have badges for entry and must pass a fingerprint scanner before gaining access to our racks.  Our cabinets are locked 24/7, and security guards routinely walk through the facility.

It seems lots of people need only 1-or-2 RU of space but the cost of getting into a real data center is too much.  This is where we can help.  We are not looking to make a bunch of money on this - just mainly helping out other guys who need such a facility.  This all started with our first customer who needed a data-center footprint and we just built out from there...
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I did not mean this as an advertisement - just thought I could help out some other Linux guys out there. 


-Ron 



On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Clay Stuckey wrote:

> I am very interested. Is there a cost involved? Do they have good
> physical security? Do they have adequate AC, UPS and bandwidth? How
> would I gain access if I ever needed to perform onsite service?
> 
> Clay
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:48 -0500, Ron Kelley wrote:
> 
>> If anyone is interested, I have some open rack space at a couple of data centers here in Raleigh.  You can bring in your own server, get a public IP Address, and do your own backups privately.  Of course, you could also run you own web server, etc.  Or, I can put in one of my servers for you.
>> 
>> -Ron
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Keith Woodie wrote:
>> 
>>> Is that pretty expensive?  I noticed that the price is like 0.15/gig.
>>> 
>>> Keith Woodie
>>> Joan Crawford<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html>
>>> - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I
>>> spend."
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jungle Disk. Works great.  Allows us to easily backup our servers to Amazon
>>>> storage "buckets".
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Ron
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Is there anybody using an online "rsync" or other type of backup at home?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Keith Woodie
>>>>> Samuel Goldwyn<
>>>>> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html>
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