Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:20 AM Josh Luthman
<josh () imaginenetworksllc com> wrote:
> I'm kind of confused when your concern is the reputability and yet you're providing your own IP space.

Hi Josh,

I'm not above discarding announcements with a "bulletproof" hoster in
the AS path. Are you?

Regards,
Bill Herrin

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:20 AM Josh Luthman
<josh () imaginenetworksllc com> wrote:
> I'm kind of confused when your concern is the reputability and yet you're providing your own IP space.
>
> It sounds more to me like you want to put 2-3 boxes in a data center.  For that pretty much any decent sized data 
> center in any state would work for the US.
>
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:14 AM William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:45 AM Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net> wrote:
> > > Looking for a reputable (i.e., no hosting of spammers or other
> > > ne'er-do-wells) hosting provider with possibly a global footprint. If
> > > not, US is #1 desire; EU #2.
> >
> > > * Desire to host 2-3 hypervisors, probably running something akin to
> > > Proxmox ...
> > > * ~5-10TB storage with the possibility of expansion ...
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > You should clarify what sort of hosting service you're looking for. A
> > normal cloud service won't see you running your own hypervisors. A
> > server farm will see you deploy your own hardware with whatever
> > storage you choose to install. Only a "bare metal" cloud service would
> > meet both of your listed requirements, where you lease both the
> > equipment and hosting service from the provider. However, combined
> > with your BGP requirement your options are very limited and expanding
> > storage usually means "lease a different one of our servers."
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> >
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