[olug] Local Co-Location Providers

[Ben Dinger]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:07:42PM -0500, Darren Alexander wrote:
> I've talked pretty extensively with IPRev.  They quoted me $2050 a 
> month for a 2-5mb tier and 1U of rackspace.  If I sustain greater than
> 5mb for over 24 hours the put me in a higher tier and charge me
> accordingly.  Their setup fee with a 1 year contract is $900.  Perhaps I
> am naive about bandwidth expenses, but this seems quite pricey to me. 
> Is this a reasonable sum to pay for that tier of service?

It depends on how they are metering it out.  If it's 2-5mb on a 95th percentile-style billing, that's pretty standard.  That's also pretty heavy usage :).  

For lower usage colo, espescially around here, unless you are looking at First Data you can ballpark around $100-250/mo and be right on.  I didn't even mention first data/first tech for that specific reason, they have a wonderful data center - but whoa for pricing :). 



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