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[davidb]

Ok, its hot today and rainy. I like rain but its too damn hot, instead of smoking outside I came in here and started reading posts on coloation. I never want to coloate, I hate leaving my server with someone else. I hear all these bad stories of this and that happening, and well honestly I do not want it to happen with me. I want to do webhosting, been doing free webhosting for over a year. I got the software, I have a nice well, its an ok new server, nothing too great, I got a nice generater here for power backup. I have a line. But every day as we are getting this server ready, I have doughts about if people will buy from us. We have a sdsl line that can easily hit its max, it is never down, but we dont have enough ips, so it would have to be namebased virtual hosting. If I ever decided to upgrade and get more, that would mean a whole new block, and a whole lot of changing. Anyhoot, I relized no one wants to buy from someone who hosts on a sdsl line, so I have decided to coloate. I want to try and get a place in chicago, someplace I can do a 20 min drive to if I ever needed to basicly. What I need help on is if anyone knows of any place in chicago, Im going to start searching now but I would like some opinions. Thanks

[us0r]

Originally posted by davidb
Ok, its hot today and rainy. I like rain but its too damn hot, instead of smoking outside I came in here and started reading posts on coloation. I never want to coloate, I hate leaving my server with someone else. I hear all these bad stories of this and that happening, and well honestly I do not want it to happen with me. I want to do webhosting, been doing free webhosting for over a year. I got the software, I have a nice well, its an ok new server, nothing too great, I got a nice generater here for power backup. I have a line. But every day as we are getting this server ready, I have doughts about if people will buy from us. We have a sdsl line that can easily hit its max, it is never down, but we dont have enough ips, so it would have to be namebased virtual hosting. If I ever decided to upgrade and get more, that would mean a whole new block, and a whole lot of changing. Anyhoot, I relized no one wants to buy from someone who hosts on a sdsl line, so I have decided to coloate. I want to try and get a place in chicago, someplace I can do a 20 min drive to if I ever needed to basicly. What I need help on is if anyone knows of any place in chicago, Im going to start searching now but I would like some opinions. Thanks

Try:

http://www.colosource.com

You will be able to find something there.

[davidb]

Anyone know of colo.com? Im waiting for them to email me prices, they are like 10 min away so I really would like to go with them.

[DHWWnet]

Colo.com cost $$$$$$$$ go with another provider.

[allan]

Originally posted by davidb
Anyone know of colo.com? Im waiting for them to email me prices, they are like 10 min away so I really would like to go with them.

I think I read somewhere that they are in chapter 11 restructuring.

[energy]

http://colo.com/news/press.htm

Yeah, colo went chapter 11 bankruptcy and are looking for a buyer. They have (only) 170 customers...

[davidb]

Im having a horrible time finding a host. I eather see
$100/20GB
or
$10/1gig

Isent this a very bad thing? Plus so many people dont give any details. I took a lokk at viero or whatever, and their checklist showed something in chicago, but I have no Idea, I sent emails to a few. I mean, shouldnt there be something like 3 a gig or so as a average price? I mainly looking for someone to sell be 1megabit.

[Honu]

Aloha
a buddy of mine that runs an isp has colo space in the westin building in Seattle that he runs hosting on (not his isp) I think he is like $25 a u space and $3 gig the westin building is very well connected up though
might try to talk to him about details to post for him here

[JTY]

The Westin Building is very well connected....