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[amelen]

I know this might be a bit too personal of a question (ie: information you don't want to share), but I am looking to get a few more servers, preferably at another datacenter and was wondering what you guys are using and what kind of costs involved.. (either dedicated or colo).. I don't really need exact prices so price ranges will do.. A lot of the people here have had a lot of experience with lots of datacenters, and I am just curious to hear the opinions (even dedicated leasing (rackshack,etc..) vs. colocating would be an interesting discussion)..

Thanks.

[Amish_Geek]

I co-locate my 4 servers. 3 I recently purchased for $835 each (1U rackmount, 2.4ghz p4, 1gb ram, 2x 40gb w/hardware raid1, dual 1000mb nics) my 4th server I purchased a while back off ebay for $500 (2U dual P3 550, 1gb ram, 2x 36gb SCSI drives w/soft raid1) The 2U is soon to be upgraded to a Dual P3 700mhz, and used mainly for backups and a game server.

My Co-location fees are: $250/mo for 1/4 rack (10U), and I purchase bandwidth for roughly $100/mo/128kbps(averaged), but it is fully burstable to 100mbs. It equates out to about $100/40gb transfer per month. I am currently paying for a 512kbps connection (averaged) which gets me roughly 160gb transfer per month, and I get a discount the more bandwidth I purchase. If I go over my average, it is $0.79/kbps extra which equals about $1.50/gb extra per month.

The bandwidth price is a little high, but I am fully burstable to 100mbps, and am sitting on 3 OC12's, which is what I care about. That and I have 24/7 physical access to my box for those 3am kernel recompile cravings

[amelen]

Not too bad.. but the bandwidth is a little expensive.. a see a lot of people offering plans with under 50 cents a gig for BW.. I wonder how they are doing that..

I run a big free hosting site (2-5million hits/day with 20,000-30,000 active clients and 75k total clients).. so that alone uses a lot of servers and bandwidth, and i was thinking of setting up my own datacenter in NJ.. but the prices for bandwidth seem really high (i guess they are not high, but to offer the plans that most other hosts offer, i would need to find something cheaper)..

If someone is using a lot of bandwidth maybe we can split the costs and set up the datacenter? I have quotes for a T3 (45mb/s of BW) for $5k/month.. Office space would be another $2k.. And I currently only use around 5mb/s max...

[amelen]

Btw.. i would like to add that i have a place for the datacenter that would just require fixing up the electrical unit and other than that it would be pretty much free to me.. I think i am not quite ready for that right now.. but just an idea..

So for now, does anyone else have some good colo locations / specs to share

[tlp]

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