Co-lo's and power
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Hello list,
While not Debian related, this is the best list I can think of that
would know the answers to my questions. (But these are Debian servers I
will be talking about, of course.)
At work we are considering moving our servers to a Co-lo facility,
because it is too expensive to get decent bandwidth at our office
($600+ for a 1.5Mbps T1).
However, most of the Co-lo's we have seen indicate that each rack is
only fed with a 15 - 20A power line... to power the entire 42U of
space. We have about six 1U servers currently and half of them are
dual-P4 machines, all of them 2.8Ghz or faster. Add in a switch and
remote kvm and we were under the impression we would need our own 15A
line dedicated to our servers. But at least one Co-lo has said it would
cost a one time fee of $1100 to get a dedicated 15A power line run to
our servers in their rack.
So, my question to the list is, do we really need that much power for
our servers? If yes, are Co-lo's deliberately undersizing their
power-feeds to get us to pay more, or are our servers that unusual? I
have trouble believing they're getting many people to pay $1100, so
that would tend to make me think they're not just trying to juice us,
but then again I'm no Co-lo expert.
Also, anyone have personal experience with a Co-lo they would
recommend? Bonus points if they allow us physical access to our servers.
TIA,
Jacob
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