efreeservers.com charges $1.5/GB for dedicated server customers, and $1/GB for colocation customers.

If I'm getting a lot of bandwidth output, it would be more economical to do colocation than dedicated.

Does anyone know of good places to rent server hardware from that I can send to a colocation facility? I'm thinking about 2U dual Pentium III in particular.

www.penguincomputing.com leases servers

Last week, someone recommended to us RackSaver.com because we were in need of good servers. So, we called them, and had a server within 5 days. They were curteous and supportive. I would recommend them to anyone. Ask for Danny, he was our sales rep. Tell him Darren Herman of iComputerServices LLC sent ya :)

They have fabulous prices, the server we ordered listed for about $3987 on their site, and it only costed $2700 on the phone. They must have not up dated their site in a while.

Thanks,
Just my two cents.

In no way to I work for Rack Saver or get any form of kick back (I wish I did)

I personally am leaning towards efreeservers for co-location... Seems like an excellent deal and tech support is there..

Cheaper when you think long term... And I like to think long term.

XTNet...that's my perspective on their offer. No downtime. Great support. We're more than happy with a long term plan.

Gary

myself i dont like efreeservers but it is sometimes better to lease hardware and colo it. You can usally get decent servers from dell for under $50 a month

What part of eFreeservers don't you like? They offer a great range of servers, for free, that can be used for almost any hosting application. You own the box at the end of the term, and the bandwidth price is excellent. Not to mention the support.

Gary

i wouldnt call there servers free. like someone earlier said it is 1.50 for a dedicated and 1.00 for a colo w/ efs. that doesnt sound free to me.

there support leaves some to be desired.

maybe once they add qwest it wont be so bad. but with just using level 3 and in california, that isnt the best all around solution.

I'd call it free. It's completely different to co-location. That kicks in after the 20 months. The bandwidth price for both is a differnt story.

And support....! Well, they certainly made it plain sailing for us to step up from reselling. Filled our Inbox with a constant flow of emails explaining nearly every aspect of our server, complete with screenshots of examples where appropriate.

Uptime has been 100% constantly. Speeds have been great considering where we are.

I can't fault them myself buddy.

Gary

efs works for some ppl. it just depends on ones needs to i suppose

Anyone co-located thier OWN equipment at efreeservers, any experience to share?

How reliable / latency has their network been?

colocation is nearly always going to be<strike>cheaper</strike> more cost effective than doing the dedicated route.

-neil