How much should I expect to pay for a CoLo host? Also are there any good hosts I should look at. I have no idea where to start and I need some help :confused:

Well you could check out:

http://www.serverhost.com/
http://www.dtwebworks.com/
http://www.weinbar.com/

It depends on what your additional requirements are... For example: How many IPs do you need? How much data transfer will you be using? Do you need Plesk or Cpanel3 or Ensim? How much are you willing to be charged for overage bandwith usage?

If you can answer/provide these additional information, then I will be able to give you suggestion for where to look for the best deal :)

cheers,
:beer:

Do not need anything extra. 1 IP, need a fairly good about of data transfer but the bandwidth does not have to be very high, say, 1-3 Mbs [3 being the very max].

Basicially I need a quick connection. Cheap perferrably, speed, reliability, and gig data transfer costs are my main selling points here.

Originally posted by Ender
the bandwidth does not have to be very high, say, 1-3 Mbs [3 being the very max].

You mean, you would need about 900-1000GB of data transfer per month???? Or do you mean you want your bandwith to be capped at a max of 3 Mbps? OK, let's rephrase... how much data transfer (in GB) do you think your server will consume?

cheers,
:beer:

Hehehehe, yup I mean bandwidth =)

This I do not know, give me a day or two and I can answer that for you, need to get some info on how much our server is going to use.

OK, I still don't understand what you mean.... :(

What is your estimated data transfer volume per month, in GB? This is crucial to me suggesting you where to go....

cheers,
:beer:

Oops, my sentence made no sense. The data transfer [gigs/mo] I do not know exactly, need to figure that out.

Okay this I do not know for sure, but think... 150 gigs a month.

Ahh another mistake, 1u is incorrect...how much space does a real desktop take? I don't have a 1u server box here I have something more like a 15u...

Most desktop or midtower servers consume about 4U when put into a rack.

Regards,

Some places (like WeinBar) have separate pricing for tower-style cases (so you don't have to pay for 4u of rack space).

Weinbar looks pretty good. I get a ping of around 100 ms there, is there anything with a similiar price around? Want to see if I can find the lowest ping and the best price.

Well I don't think pings are a a good criteria.. a low ping today might not be in a week.

Ping is not a representation of anything except distance and to see if the machine is awake. It has NOTHING to do with network performance.

true that man

I ping to my dedicated server at pogolinux
I get 110ms, 130ms... But it is fast as hell

I just am far thats all

Geographical location :D

Originally posted by WeinBar
Ping is not a representation of anything except distance and to see if the machine is awake. It has NOTHING to do with network performance.

Sorry to nitpick, but I think what you mean to say is *average* ping only measures distance.

Standard deviation (and some more esoteric properties as well) can tell you other things, including the state of the network.

Yes actually ping can tell you exactly on whether the networks slow or not, when a network is to overloaded or does not have enough bandwidth, it takes longer for a packet to get through to a machine and for that machine to send back another packet. Thats why when a network gets DOS's you see ping over 500+, or like vdi when their network gets slow you see pings over 500+

True, average is what I meant.

The important thing is to have a constant ping-time AND no packet loss. It is better to have 200 ms ping and 0% packet loss, than 100ms ping average and 2% packet loss. If you're ping varies much, its not good. Remember also that the servermachines top-priority services to answer to is NOT ping requests

Anybody cares to see TOTAL CHAOS ??

http://www.3dwizards.com/computer/3dwizards.com.png

Originally posted by Ender
Okay this I do not know for sure, but think... 150 gigs a month. Ahh another mistake, 1u is incorrect...how much space does a real desktop take? I don't have a 1u server box here I have something more like a 15u...


OK weinbar might be the best place you can go right now, for two reasons:

1). If you can convert you desktop to mid tower, then the colo cost for the mid tower at weinbar is only $50/mo (very cheap for a mid tower). Note, weinbar might change this colo price for mid tower soon...

2). You will get $1.25/GB for 100GB and at most $1.5/GB for the other 50GB... So that 150GB of bandwith would cost you only about $200 per mo/at most. So together with your rack charge, it would be $250/mo.

the next closest would be serverhost.com. Try to talk to both of them, hoping to get the best deal. Good luck!

BTW, what kind of 15U desktop case do you have? :D

cheers,
:beer:

Damn, I wish I was living in Arizona so I could co-locate my own box instead of using this damn RaQ3 that is unaccessable half the time :(

From what I know there are no data centers in Sweden, even if there were they would charge 10 times the price. :(

Carlos,

That sucks, VDI needs to get there network back into shape...

Originally posted by CRego3D
Anybody cares to see TOTAL CHAOS ??


ho..ho..ho... is that your sever in VDI? BTW, what software/program do you use to get that monitoring?

cheers,
:beer:

Originally posted by dektong


ho..ho..ho... is that your sever in VDI? BTW, what software/program do you use to get that monitoring?

cheers,
:beer:
That's one of them .. I use pingplotter http://pingplotter.com
only 15 bucks .. and it's excellent