[PLUG] Colocation Servers in PDX

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Sat May 29 06:26:49 UTC 2010


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM, David Mandel <dmandel at pdxlinux.org> wrote:
> I use to use seaccp.org in Seattle and liked them a lot; but Seattle
> is a long ways from Corvallis when trouble happens.
>
> I'm not aware of any equivalent in the Portland area.  One reason for
> that is that we have osuosl.org.     At Linux Fund, we finally moved
> to osuosl.   They are great, but their mission is much more restricted
> that seacpp's, so many people and groups who can use seacpp can not
> qualify to use osuosl.  Also, seacpp gives users more freedom than
> osuosl generally does.
>
> There are a number of small, friendly, high quality for-profit hosting
> services in Portland.  The one that comes to my mind is forked.net.  I
> used them for several years and really like them.

Not co-location service but virtual machine from a local group is
www.rdrop.com  I used agora for the longest time and helped Alan
out a couple of times getting him hardware at cost.
It is still going.  It's possible that he is open to co-location or
would have other ideas
about co-location.

>
> Seacpp has had financial difficulties at times even though it is
> located in Seattle.  Given that Seattle is larger than Portland and
> that Portland is already served by the likes of osuosl and forked.net;
> I doubt that a Seacpp could succeed in Portland - BUT I could well be
> wrong on this.
>
>
>  Sincerely,
>  David Mandel
>  Executive Director
>  LinuxFund.org
>  560 SE Alexander
>  Corvallis, Oregon 97333
>  (971) 223-5169 land
>  (541) 730-5285 cell
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a community colocation datacenter in Portland OR? I am
>>> looking for somewhere to put a server, and I would like to do it in a
>>> community-based datacenter like sfccp.net or seaccp.org. Is there
>>> something like this in Portland?
>>
>> Hi Ike - Not that I know of. I asked the same thing last fall and also
>> asked if people would be interested in starting one. I'm still
>> interested in such an endeavor...
>>
>> -Mike
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