I have seen snaps only but never been to a real datacenter in person. What about you?

Has anyone here been to a datacenter in person? Hows your experience been?

I visited Peer1 and iWeb.ca datacenters. Both in Montreal. Both are impressive looking. Can't comment more than that because I am not an expert on the subject.

It was pretty noisy in both of them.

I believe it were staff and not the equipments which were noisy.

http://www.sterlingnetwork.com/ is the most recent datacenter I went to. It is one of the best I have seen.

Was at Peer1 in downtown TO, nice indeed

You guys had access to DC? I mean they just allow anyone to walk in there and see how things work or do you need some permission to enter DC's buildings?

I have, and I am going to 2 other data centers on thursday

which two?

No they normally won't let just anyone in but if you are a potential customer particularly for colo you can arrange a site tour. Usually this is if you are looking for a rack or two.

I beg to differ. I am not a customer, but I usually give them an ultimatum. I tell them that I will leave a nasty comment about them on the forum if they don't show me around.

















Just kidding.

haha...thats what we call forum-power.

Artashes, the sheriff's department in your city would be saluting you daily or you'll leave bad comments about them on forum..

just kidding.

Nope, I have not. I wish I was, and I still want to.

There are no sheriffs here.
Police here speak French to me

I've been to One Wilshire and also Hewlett Packard's "Building 3" in Bristol which is pretty much a modern data center and you can get very lost, very easily; working there was another story.

If you go through one door you may end up in Corner #2 which is the football table or "foosball table", another exit will take you into cool town and another will take you to their full size football field or in your case "soccer field" :p

Now on the first day I was there, it took 25 minutes to walk from the Gate to the reception desk.

That happens in old age
or may be it was due to security checks.