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What does a "Blended IP" mean in terms of speed?
I'm getting a server colocated at a facility and they stated the internet speed will be 10 Mbps Blended IP on 100 Mbps Network Port. What does blended IP mean?
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Confused about hosting offer: 20 M/bit uplink speed vs Gig/E Uplink Connectivity?
The datacenter in question is offering the following for colocating a server:
20 M/bit uplink speed
Gig/E Uplink Connectivity
Could someone explain the difference in the above? I'm confused as to ...
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What does "1-gig switch port" mean in co-location terms?
I am looking for a place to colocate my server and I am not sure what this host sent back to me means. I know what mbps is, but what is a "1 gig switch port"?
Here is the whole message:
1U in our ...
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Can I send my server to a data center?
I have a server that hosts a website at home and when I'm at other places accessing my website it is very slow. My Upload speed is 3mbps and I get over 1k users a day. It has got to be incredibly slow ...
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Should HA hardware be in separate cabinets?
I want to host (co-located) a service at a Pier1, Q9 or some similar hosting facility.
Is it best practice to put my failover hardware in separate cabinets, and in your experience, will the hosting ...
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Measure ip/port traffic [closed]
We have a small data center here in Brazil to host our servers.
Now we are planing to provide some colocation and VPC hosting, and we need to measure monthly traffic of each ip/port.
We can't to ...
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Network equipment to provide firewalling, switching, and redundancy
What kind of networking equipment would you recommend for a set of hosted Web servers, given these circumstances:
Current Situation
There are two web servers in colocation, in a dedicated closet. ...
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Hosting web server via FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or datacenter
I'm a .Net programmer that currently using web hosting provider to host my web applications.
In my place, currently there is offer of 20 Mbps FTTH (Fibre To The Home) internet line by an ISP. This ...
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Global Colocation hosting single vendor vs multiple
We are openning 2 data centers in the US and 2 in Europre that are globaly load balanced.
From uptime stand point am I risking in single point of failure going with one vender for colocating?
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Suggestions on changing an internet smtp server's ip address
We are moving one of our smtp servers from one hosting provider (A) to another hosting provider (B). Because of this move, the IP address of the server will have to change.
Our plan is to do the ...
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Sending email without mail gateway?
I'm currently speaking to a co-location host. They say they don't provide a mail gateway (SMTP or whatever) with their colo service. Perhaps this is a hole in my understanding, but I thought that ...
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Colocation sharing
I know it might sound a bit bizzare but does anyone know some where that people can share a dedicated or colocated host?
Basically buying a server and paying for colocation in a data centre is much ...
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What type of Firewall appliance for website co-location?
We are moving a high traffic site (20Mb/s - 80Mb/s) to a co-location instead a dedicated server at a hosting company. As part of the infrastructure build-out we are deciding between buying a FortiGate ...
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Need a good colocation host
I'm looking for a good collocation host in Los Angeles. I've looked at quite a few hosts, but found precious few reviews. Has anyone had particularly good or bad experiences that can point me in a ...
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Colocation payment policy? - does it depend on electricity?
I've used a colocation service for about 3 months. This is my first touch to run web servers in a data center, so I don't have any idea and information about server hosting (or colocation).
Now, I'm ...
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How does Colocation work in regards to actual machine hosting?
I'm new to the subject, so I apologize in advance if this is a basic no brainer question, but what I would like to know is that generally speaking, does Colocation provide for you in terms of hosting ...
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How do I move my servers to a datacenter?
I feel like an idiot for having to ask this, but essentially, I have a few server in my private data centre that I would like to repurpose for web hosting. I am currently hosting my site with goDaddy ...
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How do I know how much power a server will need - for colocation
I'm trying to figure out my colocation needs and one requirement is the power usage of a server. Most colocation providers give you the option of between 0.4 and 1 amps per U server. How should I go ...
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Dedicated firewall vs. on-machine
I'm setting up a bunch of Ubuntu servers in a colocation center. They offer a shared firewall service, but suggested I install a firewall on the servers myself, i.e. configure iptables on each machine ...
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