Please suggest cheap places to colocate tower systems. Looking for 100GB+ bandwidth.

Thanks!

Define cheap. Most towers are 4/5u when on their side, that means 4x the space of a 1u system, so expect to pay at least 3x the price for space in most cases which is around $25-50/u.

Cheap as in cheapest few available considering the request! :)

And yes, you may pm your own offer to me! ;)

It's against the forum rules to advertise in here, or by pm in here usually, but i can tell you, we're by no means cheap in our new location at over $25/u, which i'm sure you'll receive offers far below as many people have connections in "office" data centers instead of fully equipped facilities.

AWWM.com is probably your best bet. $100 a month with 100GB of traffic.

fastservers (http://www.fastservers.net/co-location/index.shtml) maybe? Their site says 1U - 4U Rack Space

I have a server at Marlin eSourcing.. VERY happy with their support and prices.

Zak

thanks for the responses everyone.

porcupine,

I did check your site and yes pricing does seem high for what we need bandwidth-wise!

I was in the market looking colo for a tower and 1u system...fast servers does not take towers b/c they do not want to be responsibile if they fall over....cant really blame them can ya?

Originally posted by neonlexx
I was in the market looking colo for a tower and 1u system...fast servers does not take towers b/c they do not want to be responsibile if they fall over....cant really blame them can ya?

Are you serious? Who did you go with finally? Or are you still looking?

Thanks!

The person who i ended up going with really didnt wanna take the tower system but was willing to work abit..i bought a decent amount of bandwidth and figured once i colo more server i can just spread it among them.....contact me via PM or email and i can refer you.

why don't you check out fastservers.net? I believe their 1U-4U colo including 512Kbps bandwith is only $88/month. And it's not cogent too, I believe.

Originally posted by FHDave
why don't you check out fastservers.net? I believe their 1U-4U colo including 512Kbps bandwith is only $88/month. And it's not cogent too, I believe.

Someone said they dont do tower systems!

my apology, I did not see that reply.

If you provide your own rack shelving, then you may sit your server safely on it. I don't see how the server will fall ...

FastServers does not accept towers due to liability. It's kind of a hazard since all servers are rackmounted and are secured. A tower is not secured and could fall or be knocked over easily.

They also take up a lot of room. As stated earlier, it would be any where from 4u to 5u (in some cases 6u). That a good chunk of real estate that is sitting on a shelf that is not secured.

Also, Hurricane Electric might not allow towers either. FastServers has a lot of racks there and the data center might not allow it.

Hope that helps.

You might want to check out linuxwebnet.com if you want a tower co-lo. I used them for about a year and I had pretty good luck. I had a few billing issues with them (not their fault or mine...it got outsourced), but overall I'd give them an 8 out of 10. After they got their billing resolved, everything was fine.

Now, you might want to think about picking up a new 4u case at Ebay. They are selling there (brand new) for roughly $70.00. That is where I got mine. I found an ebay store and bought it. Then you could move all your equipment into it and send it on over to FastServers.

I hope this helps. If you need any help, etc. just PM me. Thanks and have a great day!

EDIT: Slight grammar error. :)

you can pick up a 2u case without power supply for < $100 at places like www.superpcparts.com which we've used before. Standard equipment will fit into such a case, without any modifications, granted you cant have more then 2-3 pci cards because of the limited riser support in 1-2u chassis, but they work just fine. *most* 2u cases are sexy too, which towers are not (added benefit if you have to look at 'em all day).

Originally posted by WebHozt
Please suggest cheap places to colocate tower systems. Looking for 100GB+ bandwidth.

Thanks!

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