[olug] collocation

[Kenton Brede]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:42:39PM -0500, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> At Wed, 01 Oct 03, Unidentified Flying Banana Kenton Brede, said:
> > I meant to post this earlier when others had asked about collocation.
> > I haven't used these people nor know anyone who has but on paper they
> > are one of the best I've seen.  
> > 
> > http://www.johncompanies.com/
> 
> Hrm. . .
> 
> Reading through their website, it looks like it's not "real" co-location.
> 
> What they're doing is just offering dedicated server hosting.  Basically,
> you purchase/lease the use of their server, and then do with it as you
> will.
> 
> And, actually, you don't even get your own physical server with them.
> They appear to have a handful of large "enterprise class" servers (their
> description) that they partition and sell chroot's/virtual server's on.

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For $105.00 a month you can drop any 1U at their site.  That might be a
hardware limitation some can't live with though.

For me the $65.00 route is tempting.  If I drop Qwest DSL/phone and pick
up Cox cable/phone the "server" would cost me about $20.00 to $40.00
more a month than I am paying now.  You get a price break of $20.00 for
Open Source software contributers which tempts me more:)   
kent

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