[jbr]

Hello,

Could you tell me if it is possible to get a private LAN in the colo ?

We're thinking about renting a few servers and are wondering how we would be billed for their communications (the servers will failover for each-other, use a centralized ldap db, maybe a mysql cluster and all the rest of it) and the plan should be to do that for a few more servers if we can get things working properly.

must we rent a dedicated switch for that or can we use the shared switch (and not be billed for all the net activity between the boxes) ? we're not going to do any cleartext so using a shared switch is good enought, but we'd rather keep the 1TB of bandwith to send stuff to the world (we'll be doing video so the bandwidth consumption may be scary).

thanks!
jb