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    Best Cheap Colocation

    If money is an issue, what is the best "cheapest" colocation avalible?

    AND...does servermatrix.com offer colocation?
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    I think you really need to do some research Anonymuse
    Where do you want co-location, what budget.....

    And i dont think anon-e-mouse will be too happy about your name "Anonymuse"
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    I think you need to supply a lot more info as to what you're looking for.

    However, ServerMatrix's parent company, ThePlanet, offers colocation services. They're not cheap.
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    the best cheap?

    ha, isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
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    depends

    how much do you need? a few u or a few cabinets?
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    There's a few places that aren't "expensive" but cheap is subjective. To me GNAX.net is about as cheap as I'd be comfortable going to. Any cheaper and I'd start to worry if they're gonna be reliable enough to be useful, but that's just me.
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    Originally posted by Dixiesys
    There's a few places that aren't "expensive" but cheap is subjective. To me GNAX.net is about as cheap as I'd be comfortable going to.
    $250/month for a rack with escorted access is cheap, but $99/meg isn't.
    I'd consider cheap colo 1U + 1-2Mbps for around $100, and there are a couple people out there doing it.
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    Originally posted by wotanworks
    $250/month for a rack with escorted access is cheap, but $99/meg isn't.
    I'd consider cheap colo 1U + 1-2Mbps for around $100, and there are a couple people out there doing it.

    yup their bandwidth and remote hand are not cheap. I would suggest www.dedicatednow.com if you have just a few 1u servers.
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    Originally posted by wotanworks
    $250/month for a rack with escorted access is cheap, but $99/meg isn't.
    I'd consider cheap colo 1U + 1-2Mbps for around $100, and there are a couple people out there doing it.
    Hmm well I pay 59 or 69 per meg (69 I think) so that's a lot better I guess than the starting price. I haven't priced bandwidth lately
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    colo4dallas
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    all have pretty cheap colo
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    GNAX's pricing for bandwidth scales very well as usage increases. I'm paying about $38/mbit with my current volume. I've been there for a while and can't really say anything bad about them. There is always a chance of miscommunication or something, but after everythng is said and done they are a good provider. I've actually searched for something comparable that is more local (just so I could get physical access if needed), but nothing can touch them for the value. In the end it was more economical to wire up remote console for the servers there.
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    Gowebman Networks in the Chicago Equinix data center
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    Originally posted by toochie25
    Gowebman Networks in the Chicago Equinix data center
    Considering the so-so reviews provided about this company on this forum, and your low post count, would you care to elaborate on your recommendation? Or, are your motives as transparent as they appear to be?
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    any review on colo4dallas? i'm interesting in their $69 per month 100gb colo price.

    does anyone know a good afforable DC at Houston, TX?
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    Dont mean to clog but really if i were u stay away from colocation, unless its in your neighbourhood and still avoid it. Its not worth it to pay and maintain hardware when dedicated prices are so low. Don't forget licensing fees, and do you really have the time to have 24x7 hardware monitoring by your own staff? You want 100 customers waking you up? Trust, I've been with a colo company for 4 years and its the bane of their existence. As they growth, they need to make huge investments in technology and manpower when dedicated could take care of most of that by itself.
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    I've heard good things about Peer1 Colocation....
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    Originally posted by toochie25
    Gowebman Networks in the Chicago Equinix data center
    All five of this person's posts are in support of GoWebMan.

    Given the outage that they caused their customers when moving from Server Central to their own space and Peer1 transit (poor planning on their part), then their attempt to blame that mistake on SCN, I'd be very hesitant to do business with them based on what I perceive to be both a lack of ability and integrity.
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    Originally posted by jsw6
    Given the outage that they caused their customers when moving from Server Central to their own space and Peer1 transit (poor planning on their part), then their attempt to blame that mistake on SCN, I'd be very hesitant to do business with them based on what I perceive to be both a lack of ability and integrity.
    I think you're right on the mark jsw6, any ISP that can't accomplish a renumbering and/or migration without major snafu's is probably one to avoid.
    I wouldn't be suprised if we saw more of this in the future (not specifically from gowebman), and that there will be more fallout overall.
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    peer1 colo is amazing, true, 100% uptime for the past year. Not down for a second even for me. Watch for high data transfer costs with them, tho.

    But still, it'd stick with dedicated unlesss u wanna be up all night dealing with hardware. When your motherboard fails at 10 PM, i hope u have another cause no computer store is open that late. So remeber u'll need to double everything. its all in your hands.
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    Originally posted by cyman
    Dont mean to clog but really if i were u stay away from colocation, unless its in your neighbourhood and still avoid it. Its not worth it to pay and maintain hardware when dedicated prices are so low. Don't forget licensing fees, and do you really have the time to have 24x7 hardware monitoring by your own staff? You want 100 customers waking you up? Trust, I've been with a colo company for 4 years and its the bane of their existence. As they growth, they need to make huge investments in technology and manpower when dedicated could take care of most of that by itself.
    one big up about colo is you get to use what hardware you want and upgrade them anytime you want and the price you pay for a dedicated can add up to purchase a server and colo it. isn't most colo company also offer free monitoring/tech support?
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    Originally posted by cyman
    But still, it'd stick with dedicated unlesss u wanna be up all night dealing with hardware. When your motherboard fails at 10 PM, i hope u have another cause no computer store is open that late. So remeber u'll need to double everything. its all in your hands.
    I've had ram fail, harddrives fail, fans fail, power supplies fail, but never a motherboard itself.

    I keep at least 1 or 2 empty servers handy for moves/emergencies/etc.

    Tell me where I can rent 92 fairly nice servers (most have 1G ram 2x60 or 2x80 or 2x120 harddrives and P4 2.x or dual P3's) for -under- $4000 per month and I might consider dedicateds. Granted I have a pretty hefty setup fee for each one of mine but I can also depreciate that over 5 years, write off the upgrades/etc.
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    Didn't witness this outage with gowebman! There seems to be a lot of talk on this company though! This may be a good thing! Obviously they are doing something right if they are still around through hard times! Maybe they improved there QOS! 6 post now! oh..I forgot jsw6 you never started at 5 posts! huh?
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    I've gotta agree about colo costs. I've got 2 machines I'm shipping off tomorrow that I paid $300 each for: a 2xP3-1000 with 2x 36g SCSIs and 1GB ram, and a P4 with 2 18G SCSIs and 2GB ram.

    They're plenty for my needs.

    Now, the new loaded Dell 1850 next to them is another issue entirely, but I hope to get as much use out of it as these cheapies have seen since they were built.
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    Originally posted by cyman
    Dont mean to clog but really if i were u stay away from colocation, unless its in your neighbourhood and still avoid it. Its not worth it to pay and maintain hardware when dedicated prices are so low. Don't forget licensing fees, and do you really have the time to have 24x7 hardware monitoring by your own staff? You want 100 customers waking you up? Trust, I've been with a colo company for 4 years and its the bane of their existence. As they growth, they need to make huge investments in technology and manpower when dedicated could take care of most of that by itself.

    Colocation can be much less expensive when you need more than a couple servers. You can get 1/4 rack or cabinet and fill it with 8 servers (plus some networking and power supply gear) for the cost of two dedicated servers. Of course you have higher startup costs (buying 8 servers) but it will pay for itself in a few months in the savings over dedicated. Plus you know exactly what hardware you have and you know it should last 5+ years.

    Dedicated Server: $150/month * 5 years = $9,000
    Colocated Server: $600 + $40/month * five years = $3,000

    The colocated server will have paid for itself in 4 months and one week. Multiply this by eight servers and you're talking about a difference of $48,000. Of course, this is just an example and the prices aren't perfect... but it's a reasonable estimate for what some people may be paying.
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