Hi Everyone. I am Martin Spencer, the owner of The Data Centre at 220 Queen
Street.
I have been following the thread on the Auckland Peering Exchange and
thought it would be useful to bring you up to date with some recent changes
in my data centre.
We now have two generators and have just completed construction of our own
sub-station to service the whole building instead of Vector's old one.
We have never had a complete power outage, though in the early days we did
experience an outage on one UPS. I then had all the UPSs modified to try and
ensure it wouldn't happen again.
I would like to confirm that we do not charge monthly cross-connect fees.
The only charge is for setting up the connection and that is based on what
it costs to run the cable.
Since I do not and never will supply bandwidth I am carrier neutral and have
always hoped that I could encourage people to peer in my facility.
If a formal peering exchange were to be set up here I would not want to be
involved in the administration. I would do all I could to support and
encourage it but would continue with my current philosophy of concentrating
on making the physical infrastructure (aircon, power, security) as robust
and reliable as possible.
If one or a group of you would like to meet with me to discuss how we can
improve our facilities and make them more transparent and available to you,
please contact me.
Martin Spencer
martin(a)datacentre.co.nz
+64 (9) 304-0737
