Hurricane Electric

 

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Danny H.

San Francisco, CA

Hurricane Electric is the McDonald's of data centers.  You walk in and there is one floor, with row upon row upon row upon row of blue cabinets.  When you sign up, you get one of these blue cabinets to yourself, at a fairly competitive price, and you can move in pretty quick.  The grungy underpaid staff are plentiful and mostly friendly and useful.  If you meet one you like, you can hire them away at a discount.

The best part of Hurricane Electric is the Fry's just down the street, which makes your deployment easier.

The worst part of Hurricane Electric is that they would not, under any circumstances, sell us any power beyond 15A.  The only accomodation would be to buy a second cabinet at full price.  Then when you try to move to a more suitable data center, you have to argue with them because their standard contract has a one-year commitment.

Which reminds me, the sales person I dealt with was only marginally competent.  We nearly went with Evocative in Emeryville because the HE sales person seemed mostly disinterested in communicating with us, and had a habit of sending quotes as Excel spreadsheets, which kinda slows things down when your customers tend to be Unix users.

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