How do you choose your data center?

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rowebca said:
Very good answer, you can add a coin and it is complete.

The problem with "Reliability" is that you don't know until you are there and same for "Support. I never trusted reviews, never.


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That can be true about reviews, although non-biased reviews could be helpful to narrow down choices and bring you closer to a better one by seeing people experience and what they say about their service and help you form your own judgment, it is good in the sense that it reduces corporate monopoly.
 
1) How far is it from the office or home
2) Which carriers have a PoP
3) Do I have 24x7 access and is the staff always available
4) Power costs
5) Dark fiber / BGP possibilities
 
Most websites now check the IP's, domain names, server Ip's, before you post a review about a company. But can't rely on reviews completely. Factors like location, staff, cost of servers and services, free support, security, backups location, ddos protection and many more need to be considered.
 
SenseiSteve said:
Some questions to ponder when selecting a data center:

  • What types of security policies do they have in place?
  • What is their power availability and history of outages?
  • What cooling scheme do they employ?
  • How do they monitor security and network health?
  • What alerts do they have in place? (fire, smoke, moisture?)
  • What are the prices of their services, including hands on?
  • What is their SLA?
  • Do they offer dedicated ports?
  • Who are their upstream providers?
  • Do they test their backup generators?
  • Do they offer A/B power?
  • Do they offer livechat support?
  • Do they have 800 phone support?
  • Do you feel comfortable communicating with their sales and support staff?
  • Do they offer BGP?
  • Is their center accessible?
  • Are they growing?
  • How quick do they respond to support tickets?
  • How do they handle DDOS attacks?
  • Do they post network status?
  • What types of cabinets do they offer?
  • Can you customize power to your requirements?
  • What is their policy on additional IP's?
  • Do they offer KVM services? Crash carts?
  • Do they offer managed backups?
  • Do they offer cross connects?
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Superb answer. So much extensive as well. Worth detailing in a blog :)
 
I hope you got enough answers to select datacenters.
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