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Colocrossing's Million Dollar Routers are Switches... Top of Rack Server Porn. Old Cisco.

Jack

Active Member
Why is one picture hosted on imgs.vpsboard.com but others with bayimg wouldn't you be better hosting all images at imgs.vpsboard.com?
 

nunim

VPS Junkie
Would you of sent hardware via UPS ect and had them set it up?
I would imagine that most providers rely upon on-site tech's for many of their POPs, it doesn't pay to have a tech in the area if you only have one or two racks. I do emergency tickets and monthly maintenance for a few clients who have servers in Peer1 Vancouver as it doesn't pay for them to have their own on-site tech.

The quality of on-site support should be a major factor in deciding which datacenter to trust with your equipment, unfortunately or fortunately in this case, you don't know what their work looks like unless you go see it for yourself. Thankfully computers don't care what they look like so  while this wasn't the prettiest wiring job, if it work it works and that can't be denied
 
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MannDude

Just a dude
vpsBoard Founder
Moderator
I said here and in a thread on LET that neither party in question has asked me to remove said photos. People are getting upset, someone is wasting time trying to get all these image hosts to remove them. Someone is throwing DDoS at them, etc. EIG didn't ask me to remove photos of inside their facility. Colocrossing did not ask me to remove photos of their gear.

Hey guys, I'm right here.

Jon finally asked me if I would be so kind to remove photos of their rack. I'm a reasonable fella and I obliged.

Though it may be too late now anyhow. They've been up off/on for a week a now and I'm sure they've been saved by many members and lurkers.
 
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drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
It's funny that Biloh asks for censorship over here and your oblige @MannDude.   I mean he routinely has his misfits modify your posts on LET...  in between censoring other folks.

Enough is enough I say.

Time for a whole permanent site just about ColoCrossing and their antics.
 

nunim

VPS Junkie
It's funny that Biloh asks for censorship over here and your oblige @MannDude.   I mean he routinely has his misfits modify your posts on LET...  in between censoring other folks.

Enough is enough I say.

Time for a whole permanent site just about ColoCrossing and their antics.
It was suggested before that Buffaloed should create a blog about his CC "discoveries" to keep this forum neutral and uncluttered. 
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Dawned on me why CC can't / won't offer IPv6...

Catalyst 3500's don't support it.   The 3550's do, but blah....
 

signius

New Member
LMFAO WOW

"While our technicians are well-trained on cable management and server racking, we also will be retraining our staff and managers to ensure such an issue never happens again."

 

You clearly have no idea what sort of sub standard work your staff are bodging together in paying clients racks, the fact you don't have any idea what sort of mickey mouse disgraceful work is being carried out in your companies name makes you just as crap at your job as they are at theirs.

 

They don't need re-training they need sacking.

 

If anyone working for me left a clients equipment in a disaster like that i wouldn't give a flying fuck what excuses or justification they had for doing such sub standard work they would be terminated & never undertaking any work for me again.

 

While i don't agree with companies equipment being photographed & named & shamed in a public forum the fact that it was able to occur shows your security measures are clearly not as stringent & robust as you claim & if your staff weren't so technically incompetent there wouldn't have even been a disaster of a rack to take any pictures of. Instead of getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures maybe you should be getting your panties in a bunch with the root cause of said pictures your own staff.

 

You seem to be getting your panties in a bunch about the pictures rather than the fact your staff are clearly completely unqualified to be undertaking the work they are doing & the evidence speaks for itself.

 

While on the subject of possible legal actions, maybe you should consider your own statement that makes serious allegations about who is responsible which as your own statement states you actually have no evidence or proof to back up these allegations, the correct way to do things is to get proof & evidence that conclusively prove something one way or another & then make a statement with the findings.

 

The whole EGI company from top to bottom seems mickey mouse & unprofessional to me.
 
EGI takes pride in its colocation services, data center and network. The way this customer's cabinet was setup is regrettable and how this was allowed to happen will be investigated internally. In the meantime, the servers in this cabinet have been adjusted and cables properly labeled and organized.

 

While our technicians are well-trained on cable management and server racking, we also will be retraining our staff and managers to ensure such an issue never happens again.

 

 

Now, with regards to the pictures posted in this specific forum:

 

Those pictures were taken without EGI's knowledge or permission and are being used with no such permission from either the customer, the datacenter, or EGI.

 

Biometric scan, an access card, and a combination code are required to access the building, the elevators, the datacenter floor, and the cabinet. Footage is still being examined with datacenter security at this time and no security breach has yet been found.

 

The person who took those pictures knew exactly which cabinet to go to as the cabinets don't have customer names on them and this individual didn't just "stumble" upon the cabinet like the OP says. That person knew that this cabinet belongs to ColoCrossing and had access to it (i.e. knew the lock code to open the door) and deliberately took those pictures so they could be posted on this forum.

 

Such a person must have had access to the EGI customer database and while evidence is still being collected, we strongly believe that the person who took those pictures is an ex-employee who recently left the company and is currently (and also in the past) working for BuyVM. 

 

That is also the reason no security breach was reported by the datacenter as the person who took these photos and provided them for posting actually had authorized access to the cabinet as an EGI employee. All EGI employees have access to all cabinets so they can service our customers as needed. 

 

Because of this incident, EGI is taking measures to install additional security cameras in the colo and tightening employee access to all cabinets.

 

EGI takes this privacy breach seriously and will continue investigating this matter with the datacenter and take appropriate legal action if necessary.

 

Thank You.

 

Energy Group Networks Network Operations Center

When I spoke to you on the phone years ago you sounded drunk when I asked for the status of a customer provision. 
 

MannDude

Just a dude
vpsBoard Founder
Moderator
When I spoke to you on the phone years ago you sounded drunk when I asked for the status of a customer provision. 
To be fair, it appears this industry is half full of functioning alcoholics and stoner support drones.
 
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rds100

New Member
Verified Provider
@Zach yes, 3550 can indeed route ipv6 in software, but it has some very slow CPU, so this would be a very bad idea. Unless all you want to do is ping6 some sites every now and then.
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
It was fun while it lasted....  Never thought showing a non-human "rack" would get so much attention.

The photos will re-emerge for public consumption and long term belly rolling soon.  Outside of vpsBoard of course.  Just readying the plan and implementing the architecture.
 
AFAIK they're running an XE version that I placed on a majority of the switches due to a no ip redirects + CEF bug I discovered where the switches would deadlock (the only time TAC came in handy)

That specific 3550 was provisioned years ago when I was still an employee. Work pretty good if you ask me, my only gripe is the port latency is a little higher than a 2950, probably due to queue depth.
 
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