I'm looking around for dedicated or colocated server mostly for realaudio streams rebroadcasting from Ukraine radios.


Currently I found:
www.rackshack.com - 399$ for unmetered 10Mpbs - sold out
www.fdcservers.net - 399$ for unknown 10Mpbs
www.serverbeach.com - 99$ for 400Gb

May be exists more? Where I can find the list?
Most of them stick with Linux but I interested in FreeBSD4.6R as OS.

Thank you in advance.

Oles Girniak.

Server beach is a good place inexpensive place.

I think you should go with serverbeach.com, they've gotten good comments from people who have servers wit them.

http://www.eservers.biz/ and http://www.tranxactglobal.com/ both offer 500GB of transfer per month.

I got some room on my DSL line :)

Originally posted by RackMy.com
I got some room on my DSL line :)
Originally posted by http://www.rackmydsl.com/tos.aspx
We do not allow servers

Cheap bandwidth? Look for a company that uses Cogent. I believe you mean rackshack.net not .com ;)

Originally posted by Maniac
Cheap bandwidth? Look for a company that uses Cogent. I believe you mean rackshack.net not .com ;)
Originally posted by www dot rackshack dot com
Welcome to Go Bananas Kayaks located in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii!
:rolleyes:

I try to connect to Cogent, but they keep silent about deidcated servers. May be due to their stock (http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=COI) goes down like Worldcom :(

cogent is a bandwidth provider, they do not offer hosting services. companies purchase bandwidth from cogent in order to offer hosting services.

and most bandwidth provider's stocks aren't doing very well at the moment.


check out:

www.rackshack.net
www.serverbeach.com
www.serveroutsource.net (GREAT deal going on now in their bargain bin)
www.webreseller.net
www.eservers.biz
www.tranxactglobal.com
www.fdcservers.net
www.nocster.com

[oops, added up nocster]

FDCServers also has that 100MBPS connection at $99 a month too.. with un-metered bandwidth. From what I know, no one beats that price.

Anyone offering unlimited bandwidth for $99 a month is just asking to oversell their line...

www.nocster.com owned by BurstNET, i believe a very well known company on WHT :rolleyes:

Originally posted by oles
I'm looking around for dedicated or colocated server mostly for realaudio streams rebroadcasting from Ukraine radiosThose above are all relevant suggestions (we too use RackShack and FDC Servers), but first you probably need to answer a question: how much bandwidth do you plan to use?

Radio does not take up too much -- 28 Kbit per user should be enough for mono, 56 Kbit for stereo, so you can have 20 users listening simultaneusly on each 1 Mbps stream if you don't use multicast. Current prices for 1 Mbps are around $60, or, if you sign-up with Cogent directly, $3,000 per 100 Mbit. You have to take into account though you can't utilise Cogent link 100%, on very high load it probably will be utilized at 50%.

I once was thinking about broadcasting TV in MPEG4 (1 Mbps per channel). Free software and non-expensive hardware are already available (you can encode MPEG4 with 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 in real time), but I did not find enough people interested to watch TV on PC.

(Slightly off-topic) I have a quick question about Cogent's pricing. dabystru writes "if you sign-up with Cogent directly, $3,000 per 100 Mbit."

However, on the main page of their site (cogentco.com), it says "100 Mbps for $1000/month" However, I've seen this $3000 figure mentioned before -- why the 300% discrepancy? (I think their gigabit line is $30,000 a month, you didn't just divide that by 10, did you?)

I'm very curious about the pricing deal here, as Cogent says very clearly that service is $1000/month, but $3000 seems to be a VERY common number. Can someone please explain?

It's $3,000 per month for internet service providers.

Originally posted by fog
(I'm very curious about the pricing deal here, as Cogent says very clearly that service is $1000/month, but $3000 seems to be a VERY common number. Can someone please explain?

If you are an ISP or web hosting company, you will be charged $3K. Normal businesses can get it for $1K.

if you were a small business who wanted to host your own website(s) on their cogent line in-house, would that still fall under cogent's $1k a month rule?

and of course to use cogent, you'd have to move into an already lit building or pay for them to light it, correct?

Yes, that would be $1,000. You HAVE to pay $3,000 if you are basically a Server Provide or reselling that bandwidth.