Hi, We have recently opened a data centre in Christchurch, and have been through, or are going through all the same things. I can give you some help and advice with which products to go for from everything from your border routers to your backup generator, and how to get things working effectively. We are negotiating with providers to give us connectivity to APE at present. Craig Spiers is right - if you don't have 500 servers to kick off with, get IP Address space from your provider, although this gets nasty when you are multihoming, as you will need to get permission from the provider of the IP addresses to announce those address ranges to the other provider(s) - something some providers don't seem to like. APNIC fees are pretty heavy for a small provider, and establishing a data centre is expensive enough as it is. I imagine you've already asked yourself whether you'd be better just colocating your existing equipment with another provider, but if not, do that now, because you'll be surprised just what establishing a DC really does cost. Many providers offer pretty outstanding rates if you need a whole rack or several racks. Feel free to give me a call on one of the numbers below and I can help you out. Cheers, Erin Salmon Managing Director Unleash Computers Ltd www.unleash.co.nz Phone: +64 3 365 1273 Mobile: +64 21 877 913 -----Original Message----- From: Brett Johanson [mailto:sativanz(a)hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2005 1:33 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] any help appreciated Hello Im looking into setting up a data center, and am looking to peer with the ape, i was wondering how i can do this i am also applying for some IP space from apnic and having a little trouble setting up the PERSOn as it keeps failing. Any Help on this matter would be appreciated i just really need to know what to do to peer with the ape router recommendations etc Cheers _________________________________________________________________ Need more speed? Get Xtra Broadband @ http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,,202853-1000,00.html _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 2/05/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2/05/2005