Anyone been to a datacenter in person?

LOL. Some will let you in but not let you (obviesly) touch the server or any clients racks. I've had a atour of a few facilties in Las Angeles CA. There nice fancy but not as fancy as ours will be when we eventualy buy the property.
 
I went on a business trip at the end of 2006 to Paris and visited a datacenter there to install a PIX firewall. Security was very tight and the actual server rooms were very cold and noisy. I got lost after going through the first room as we passed down several corridors, through serveral server rooms to finally find the rack where I was to install the equipment. The rooms were huge too containing a fair few hundred racks in each.
 
I would never colo any of our equipment before visiting the facility first. I can tell you now they are very noisy and quite cool.

Then there is the security... escorted access, biometric scanning, PAC Tags and in America... Armed security.

But if it is your first time and your visiting a nice facility it can be quite enjoyable :)
 
Some DC's in America apparently have armed security. If i find the link to the DC ill post it.

Sailor Does AtlantaNAP still have an Armed Police Officer?
 
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We've run our data center for over seven years (www.esnet.com) and we didn't have armed security measures until after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. There was one colo facility that stayed up and running during Hurricane Katrina. After all that settled down some, we visited with their operations staff and they discussed the importance of armed security to prevent from looting and stealing equipment.

Computer equipment and data is very valuable and malicious people have reason to attempt to steal it or gain unauthorized access. Trained security staff go a long way to ensure customer security and discourage malicious behavior.
 
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HostingAmerica said:
We've run our data center for over seven years (www.esnet.com) and we didn't have armed security measures until after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. There was one colo facility that stayed up and running during Hurricane Katrina. After all that settled down some, we visited with their operations staff and they discussed the importance of armed security to prevent from looting and stealing equipment.

Computer equipment and data is very valuable and malicious people have reason to attempt to steal it or gain unauthorized access. Trained security staff go a long way to ensure customer security and discourage malicious behavior.
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so are you guys going armed now?

I just heard that the MCI / Verizon data center in atlanta was hit in the recent weeks and they took a lot of router cards.
 
bandboy said:
I have seen snaps only but never been to a real datacenter in person. What about you?

Has anyone here been to a datacenter in person? Hows your experience been?
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We're in it every day. However, when it was my first time, I felt very nervous because I've never seen so many Rj-45 cables before, and all these slim, rackmounted server, wow! Then I realize this is what I want to do... 8 years from then till now, here I am enjoying every moment of it. Installing Centos and cPanel for a client each time is always like the very first time...
 
timihosting.com I remember the first time I did that- was great!

The hosting memory i think which will stick with me forever was the first time i saw a 1u rackmount server for the first time - was so amazed by how small it was... then slightly startled by how loud it was :D
 
I've been a web hosting pilot for nearly 6 years now, and it keeps getting better :)

I've always wanted to become an actual airforce pilot going through schools, but powering up a 1U-4U server sound almost alike :)
 
Lol, that's nice! :)

I've always wanted to see that biometric security system. That things should be so nice and star wars like, lol
 
kylebionhosting said:
From what i've seen all data centers are fairly the same, regardless of where you go
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thats defainately not the case.

I have been to a ton of data centers in my 22 years in this biz and there are a lot of differences. some of the subtle and some of the huge.
every one is different though.
 
One thing to remember about a good datacenter, is that is should be very cold and very windy. If you don't need a sweater when you are in there, find another provider :)
 
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