Re: data center locations - recommendation's

[Santino Codispoti <santino.codispoti () gmail com>]

Please see inline

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Santino Codispoti
> <santino.codispoti () gmail com> wrote:
> > I am hoping the list can help me out.  We need to setup a few data center
> > locations and I was looking for recommendation’s on City’s and possible
> > providers to rent space from.  I was thinking two within the US to service North
> > America and possibility also South America.  Then also two within Europe.  We
> > would replicate data between the two in Europe and the two within the US but we
> > would not replicate Europe to US.
>
> o where are your customers?

Are customers are global

> o what sort of colo do you really need? (space + power + ethernet + ?
> how much roughly...)

This is not completely know yet but I would say less then 10 racks

> o what sort of latency is acceptable to the customers for the
> applications in question?

I would like in most cases less then 70ms total but some customers
will be accessing the solution from mobile hand sets so it may be a
bit more due to to delay on GSM networks

> -chris