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How do you choose your data center? usually, what elements you will consider in?
How do you choose your data center? usually, what elements you will consider in?
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?
How do you choose your data center? usually, what elements you will consider in?