Two (mostly unrelated) questions. I am working on getting a startup going, and I will eventually need a Colo spot in Atlanta to host some servers. Obviously, I am price conscious (being in startup mode), but I will have approximately 7 servers that I will need to initially host. I will want a connection of at least 10 Mbps. I need somewhere that I will be able to get regular physical access, as I will be getting data on hard drives and DVD's from clients that I will need to transfer onto my servers. I am going to be in Northern Atlanta (Dunwoody), so anything closer to this area is preferred.<br>
<br>On a related note, I am going to want to put together a file server for my server farm, but I haven't dealt with larger file servers under Linux in a long time. I don't want to outlay the cash for a high end storage solution, but I will want a server that can have several (~4) Terabytes of storage available, which can be used by several Windows boxes. The files will be lots of smaller files that will have lots of reads and writes (but more reads).<br>
<br>Any suggestions are welcome.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Doug<br>