Roller NetworkEffective July 1, 2010, VeriSign has increased the pricing for .com and .net registrations. As such, our new prices for these domains will be:
.com $11.60 .net $9.50
Only these two VeriSign TLDs are affected. All others remain unchanged.
AT&T arrived this morning to pull the fiber. The next step is for for splicer to come out.
AT&T is working at the last manhole in our parking lot today, so we’re guessing they’re going to be getting to our telco room shortly.
AT&T came over to terminate the fiber in our telco room, but apparently a subcontractor was supposed to have already placed a rack for them, which didn’t happen. After a few calls it was determined they will be here on Tuesday, Feb. 16 Wednesday, Feb. 17. (The date was moved back on Feb. 12.)
The building we’re in was already lit with Verizon fiber, but we ended up having to accelerate our plans to install a secondary fiber entrance for an AT&T loop due to the continuing delays with Verizon. This time it involves some road construction.
Ultimately this is a benefit for everyone because we have two independent fiber loops, but we had originally planned to start accepting new colocation and hosting customers last year. The next step is for AT&T to pull their fiber.
With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.
“This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than 10 percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years,” added Pawlik.
View the NRO press release in its entirety at:
http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html
Roller Network is committed to providing IPv6 enabled services. Hosted mail (POP3, IMAP, webmail), outbound SMTP, and DNS services have been available via IPv6 starting in 2008. We are actively testing transport-level SMTP IPv6 services. In addition, Roller Network colocation, dedicated servers, and hosting are available with dual-stack connectivity. For more information on our IPv6 progress, see: ipv6.rollernet.us
A generator awaiting installation.
The “rollers”, our unofficial mascots that take residence in the server room on top of a router.
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Detail view of the electrical outlet installation. The smallest circuit we offer is 20A at 208VAC in single phase or three phase, but we can easily provide multiple 20 and 30 amp circuits per rack in single phase or three phase for high density racks. (We do not offer 120VAC circuits.)
Detail view of the patchrack. By keeping patch panels out of the racks and using the overhead ladder to route them where they need to be we increase server density and eliminate wasted ports. If high port density per rack is required, top-of-rack switching would be used.
Detailed view of the overhead area. Even though you can’t see this without a ladder, we like to keep everything in order.
Power cord cable management for the router and switch racks.
A view of the server room. What was spread out over five racks in the old facility was consolidated into two racks (not counting the two-post racks to the right). The extra space will be offered for colocations and dedicated servers and we will continue installing racks to fill the room. The yellow cables hanging out of the wire management on the right indicate temporary cabling.