Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : what can I get for $1000/mo?

[dektong]

I was wonderring what offer can I get (colocation only for somebody eles that needs this done soon) for $1000/mo? I got some quotes from WorldCom, InterNAP, MFN (used to be above), and still some others. They basically have around 1.5mbps and half-full secure cabinet for $1000-$1500/mo. Not really that great in price ...

So today, I visited NYI.net. The price, for around $680/mo will give me 8U of pace, 1000 watts of power, 1 mbps burstable to 3mbps (90th percentile at $420/mbps). Now this price does seem to be more reasonable. I have searched the board, not really too many people (customers only, not hosts) give any sort of experience with NYI.net, so again let me ask you guys one more time: Any good/bad experience with NYI.net?

I am still waiting quotes from other companies, but what I get for around $1000/mo if I need jut 8-10U of rackspace and as much bandwith as possible, burstable to at least 5 mbps (10 or 100 mbps will be better)? Please, no cogent as primary bandwith (backup may be fine); will only choose multi-homed solution (must have Tier1 provider in the list). 24/7 support is needed and reasonably high uptime (>99.9%) is required. Please contact me directly or post your offer here.

cheers,

[anantatman]

you tried quest?

[dektong]

No, I haven't tried quest. But if I go directly with quest (or Level3, WorldCom, etc) I will not have the redundancy (multi-homed) that I like to have, will I?

BTW, thank you for those who have emailed me your offer. I will expect to get more offers and look into these offers individually and reply you later with further inquieries or decisions.

cheers,

[Tetraboy]

Qwest, UUNet, and MFN aren't exactly what I'd call multihomed. Its much better imho to go with a webhost that has multiple connections to tier 1 providers. That way if they'res a peering squablle your customers don't suffer from it.

[dektong]

exactly tetra, that's why I was not too interested about the offers I got from MFN and WorldCom. I was just very surprised to know that MFN has dropped their badwith price by around 40% per mbps, and worldcom starts to consider small business. But anyway, multi-homed is what I prefer. Location does not really matter though I would like to be around NJ, NY, CT, MA area (withing my driving distance).

cheers,

[allan]

Have you looked at Inflow? I know RackMY uses them, and they seem to have termination from a lot of providers (http://www.inflow.com).

[Tetraboy]

I think NAC and Burst are also close up there. Inflow has places all around. I think VDI might be up there but you arleady know that.

[RackMy.com]

Phili is about the closest DC to NY for Inflow.

[dektong]

The last time I know, inflow is way to expensive per mbps (and it's at 95th percentile too). And yes, NAC is pretty darn good (I have a server there a very-very little downtime and if there is any, only few minutes), but even if I go through pwebtech, NAC is still expensive (forgot the bandwith price per mbps on 95th).

So nobody can give any comment on NYI? I am leaning towards NYI now.

cheers,

[dektong]

BTW, uuallan, you were with MAE-Dulles, weren't you? How are they (network quality and price).

cheers,

[RackMy.com]

inflow is way to expensive per mbps (and it's at 95th percentile too).

Inflow also offers BW on average billing.

[apollo]

I suggest internap - they are good. Actually I do not remember where, but lately there was a nice article about their service..

(ohh, did I say I get 10k for each referral!? oh.. I am just kidding you fools!)

ps. you may consider inflow as well. Both are nice providers and offer high quality bandwidth. You pay what you get.

thx
ApollO

[Everyday]

Try Host Remote.net They have a nice facility. They are in New Jersey and have reasonable prices for the area.

Ask for Joe.

[allan]

Originally posted by dektong
BTW, uuallan, you were with MAE-Duller, weren't you? How are they (network quality and price).

The bandwidth was good, and the quality of the networks was really good, but their network infrastructure had some problems. We had a couple of outages that should not have happened because of misconfigured routers. Their support was always very responsive during these outages though. It has also been almost a year, so I am sure their network has improved since we were there.

Price is another issue. We had great pricing, but a couple of people I sent their way got pricing that was a lot higher than ours, and there did not seem to be any consistency.

Again, that situation may have improved, I would give them a call to find out.

[dektong]

I got a quote from Internap (NYC): 1.5 Mbps (95th) and half rack at $1500/mo. I like Internap too, but at $1500/mo I do expect to get more bandwith than that (and I only need 8-10U, btw). NYI can get me 3 mbps (burstable to 6, will ask them if they will get me burstable to 10) with 1/4 rack for about the same price (And guess what, mont to month contract). The most I can spend is $1500/mo, hm ... can I get 10mbps on this? I know that I can get this through somebody at layerone (buy bandwith direct from GC/Verizon/Epik), but then I am kinda worry about their support ... Otherwise, I will just jumped in.

RackMy, I never knew that inflow will do average billing. I have heard good things about inflow, will check them later. But if you can offer better deal than them, why not give me a shoot

Attention to MOD: please move this thread to Offers forum since I too want to see some people post their offers here without breaking the forum rule.

cheers,