can anyone recommend a good hosting company in the Los Angeles area?

[haganxy]

a friend of mine is looking for a good hosting company in the greater los angeles area. any recommendations?

[Corey Bryant]

We actually used Calpop for about three years. We leased a server from them and were quite happy. (We recently moved to another data center - nothing to do with Calpop's service - just when we sold the hosting company last year, the company that bought it, was fantastic and we decided to switch to him.)

[MMemmer]

Hello Haganxy,

Just curious why the facility needs to be in LA, are you strictly looking for a colocation facility?

Unless you are looking for a colocation facility and are planning to visit the server frequently, it probably won't make much of a difference as to the geographic location of the server (if it is a game server then the hops might be important).

Here is a link from Caro.Net to test the speed from the east coast Caro.Net Download Speed Test! !

Sigh, if you really have to have a facility on the West coast then you might talk to Poppy at Jupiter.

[Chilihost]

I can offer you Atlanta, is that close enough? if yes, email or pm me.

cheers,
Luke

[haganxy]

thanks for the info. i'm going to talk to my friend. i am pretty sure he wants something co-located. i think he is going to be transferring tons of data and he would like to go over and plug-in external hard drives or something. i don't really know. maybe he just wants to go over and hug the machine once in a while...i have no idea.

thanks for all the input though!

[steven619]

Hagan,

In California we have two data centers, one for our e-commerce customers and the other for high bandwidth users. But they are both in San Diego. A bit far if you need access.

But if you tell me (off list) what you need as far as bandwidth pipes, management and monitoring, and anything else you may need I can check with a few friends that know the marketing in LA a bit more and can suggest a good one that has been there for awhile.

Although we would love to have you I understand the need to have your server handy if you have lots of data to transfer. Unless you are lucky to have a 100Mbps + connection at your office.

Even though, a 100Mbps connection has come down a lot (in most areas).

Steven