[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

Which providers are jacked in at the CB office?  If Cogent or PinPoint
has lit fiber out there I could get in touch with my Cogent rep and
see how well they can limbo on a 20Mbps commit.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM,  <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
> I like the idea, I've always wanted to do something like that. I thought about registering the name "ghettodatacenter.com" or something and leasing a small office at the kanesville CO in CB, no loopback charges and plenty of bandwidth for a couple racks. Just basic airconditioning and a few 20-30A circuits.
>
> 24/7 access too :)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:11:13
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] Community Colo Project
>
>
> Over the last week ideas have been bounced around regarding the
> possibility of a community colocation project.  This sounds like a
> wonderful idea to me considering Omaha's lack of small-fish colo
> places and the general abundance of bandwidth, and I'd like to know
> what OLUG thinks about contributing to such an operation.
>
> Ever since Jay closed up shop I've been looking for a good place to
> put my servers, with my main concerns being static IP addressing and
> no port restrictions (I'm looking at you, Cox).  A community colo
> would free up some room in our basements and maybe even prove the
> viability of colocating in Omaha.
>
> Finances are of course the most limiting factor, so keeping it cheap
> and simple is the key to success.  I think one rack, 10 or 20Mbps and
> a /26 or /27 block of IPv4 addresses would be more than enough to
> start out with.  What do you guys think about such a venture?
>
> Dan
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