Originally Posted by Steve-Hostirian

Are cross connects available? What carriers are available? What uplink speeds are offered? What kind of redundancy do they offer? What’s their procedure to control airflow? What kind of alarms are available? How are they monitored? What kind of managed services are available?

Is your data center up-to-date?
Against what benchmarks do you measure one data center versus another? Surely, the cost of power speaks directly to the efficiency of the data center itself.

Does your provider manage multiple data centers? If so, are they tied together via fiber optics or otherwise? Do they have failover? What is the history of their uptime? Are they growing?

Data Center Infrastructure – How important is it?
The real question should be, “How important is your business to you?”