I'm thinking of leasing some dedicated servers:

Cobalt RaQ3 @
500Mhz CPU
512MB RAM
30GB HD
RaQ4 OS
20 GB TIER-1 MULTI-HOMED Bandwidth: Cable & Wireless, Genuity, Sprint, BellSouth, BGP4

$100 / month, $50 setup (setup waived if from WHT). These are unmanaged servers, however, we are only responsible for keeping the cobalt (plus any third party software we install for the customer) up-to-date with security patches

This machine will outperform any stock RaQ4.

Are these prices realistic?

bit expensive considering the amount of b/w included... i do understand its quality... but still...

what if I could do it for $85 / month

I think $100 is good... Don't listen to them... Everyone here at WHT are Cheapies :D

=Chris

Seems ok providing you have good support, uptime etc. I mean most people around here are so used to getting p4 servers with a gig of memory and 400gb of bandwidth that they would not even think about taking and offer like that up.. I would say you would need to get a decent reputation first.. If you are just starting out maybe offer something like 75 a mo. 75 setup and 50gb bw and you might get some bites.. good luck..

perhaps, though for top quality bandwidth that's extremely hard to pull.

Maybe a little pricey considering that it is unmanaged.

I'll offer basic support. managed servers $120 extra

500Mhz CPU

It is actually a 300 MHz AMD.

The processor was replaced with a 550 MHz processor and UNDER-clocked to 500 MHz

Interesting, since you must really know Cobalt to do this. That I would like to see.

what do you mean you would like to see?

i think what he means is unless your pretty handy with a soldering iron you can not upgrade a raq 3 to anything beyond a 300 mhz processor because it wont work at anything beyond 300 mhz no matter what you put in it.

Steve

got an IP for traceroutes/etc? don't think too highly of your bandwidth... there are companies like hostmania on here that offer 400GB of internap for $100/month... heh

Originally posted by arjun
perhaps, though for top quality bandwidth that's extremely hard to pull.

oh... and this ain't top... if u were on exodus, that'd be top... this is just high... (and being on C&W is NOT the same as being o exodus)...

well hostmania has their flaws as do all hosting places. what quality is internap ?

internap is premium... not because of all their connecitivity (although thats impressive too)... but because of their routing technology... they don't use BGP... BGP is based around going through as few networks as possible to get to the desination... not as few hops / lowest latency (not saying fewer hops means less latency) to get to the destination... internap's routing doesn't take into consideration fewest hops... it takes into consideration lowest latency... which is quite innovative... heh... and in the end, very fast... internap doesn't really own a backbone... just connections to all the big guys in every city they have a POP... heh

I wouldn'd purchase it basically because there are lots of companies out there offering the same price with a lot more bandwith..

archie2, you're in a different area of the market... you're in the budget side... the quality side is for those that value their sites more than life itself (their sites are their lives)... and don't want to lose a single visitor of traffic because a competitor's site is faster... ... ...