New subject: [Alug] Co-lo Server Advice Needed

3 Feb 2003


      Hi all,
Long time since I've posted here - long time since I've actually been
subscribed for one reason or another...
Anyway, the company I work for is investigating the purchase of
floorspace in a facility in London. We have a quote for space in Level3,
which we look to be taking up. I am told that part of the setup fee
includes the installation of a 42U cabinet with various shelves.
Into this we are struggling to identify hardware. We are already in
webserving and voice applications, and we are looking to expand by
having our own hardware.
Now - does anyone have any experience in identifying kit and what
gotchers we can expect along the way. We've been advised that the sort
of requirements we have are pretty rare and thus expertise may have to
be gained from multiple sources, fingers crossed that they happen to
work together.
Can anyone provide some advice (I know specifics would be helpful here)
or perhaps phone numbers of contacts that would be used (we could be
willing to pay for consultancy at this level). I'm probably the most
technical at the company and thus am dealing with this matter, but I'm
out of my depth here.
Help! Advice! Shine a torch and let me see with at least moderate clue!
We're looking at:
* RAS box with E1 terminating into it supporting traditional PC plus
mobile phone connections
* WAP Gateway server
* 2x Webservers
* 1x WAP content platform
* 1x dialup billing system
* 1x possible IVR with E1 terminating into it.
Sadly some of the products we're bringing in as ASP/MSSQL based, and
thus the hardware costs x, the Microsoft licensing costs x more :(. The
servers that will host our company created bits will be *nix though.
Many thanks in advance,
James