This weekend we moved all our colocated servers from Infinity Internet over to SpireTech. At the same time I consolidated some systems into VPS' and did some general house-cleaning.

Infinity Internet, of course, made their typical contribution in the form of shutting off the network to my cabinet 7 hours early, causing outages for a couple of servers that I had planned on moving after hours. Maybe they didn't feel that getting over twice the bandwidth at roughly half the cost was a good enough reason for me to leave, so they wanted to reassure me that I'd made the right choice by reminding me that they offer shitty customer service as well.

Well played, sirs, well played.

If you're looking for colocation in Portland, I highly recommend SpireTech. I've been with them since February of this year and I couldn't be happier. They are a good bunch of guys, their prices are excellent, their support is excellent, and their uptime is great too. I may be an easy sell given my previous horrible experience with Infinity Internet, but really I have no complaints with SpireTech.

I will say that Spire's facility doesn't look as high tech as some of the others you'll find, but frankly, I'd rather have the high-quality service than cosmetics. By contrast, Infinity Internet looks great, but then, I guess they have to, since their customers will be there an awful lot due to the outages (they ought to put in a couple of cots and maybe a full lounge).