[olug] hello, colo

[Dan Clough]

The hope of finding a good home for my boxen has grown dimmer and
dimmer ever since Jay closed up shop.  The closest readily-available
colocation center looks to be Kansas City, with a wide number of
reputable providers (Virpus, WholesaleInternet, Joes Data Center) who
have set-rate colo plans.  Sure, it's far enough away to justify
buying a KVM/IP, but the 3-hour drive isn't so bad if you've got a few
CDs to listen to.  ;)

Binary.net is decent on space pricing (for being located in a vault,
at least) but the bandwidth looks to be the kicker.  The base plan
looks like $150/mo plus whatever you need for connectivity.

CoSentry won't even open the door unless you've got a business plan in
your hand.  It took me a haircut, a polo, a pair of Dockers and a
briefcase to even get a tour.  CoSentry is mostly a business
resiliency company - businesses love to pay big bucks for that kind of
stuff, and CoSentry is more than happy to charge big bucks.  I was
quoted at $330/Mbps (They kept mixing up megabytes and megabits, so
I'm not sure) for off-peak hours, and rackspace alone was $500 per
quarter-rack.

PinPoint looks very well-positioned to take over the (somewhat
non-existent) colo market in the metro area.  The only downfall is
that they appear to be more worried about leased space, cages and full
racks and the like.  Community Colo, anyone?

-Dan

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM,  <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
> Pinpoint has a good location for getting cheap bandwidth down on farnam.
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> I'm going for a tour there soon, never been there before.
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> Bandwidth in this town is just under 30 bucks per Mb transit at the pops if doing 100Mb or less. I'd estimate 23 bucks per Mb or less if your doing 1Gb or more, colo prices, I'm not sure what they run there
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> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis LaMasters <curtislamasters at gmail.com>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:43:09
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] hello, colo
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> http://www.binary.net would be an option.  They are Lincoln based.
> PowerDNN is out at CoSentry.  Charles Bird works for them and is a
> member of Olug.  He may or may not be able to work something out with
> you.  (Sorry if that doesn't work for you Charles).  If anyone knows a
> contact at Pinpoint DataCenter here in Omaha, they would possibly be
> an option.
>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Aric <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>> I'm new here.....
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>>
>> I found this group googleing for an Omaha collocation and I ran into your
>> archives.
>>
>>
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>> Can anyone recommend a single server colo provider?  It doesn't need to be
>> in Omaha.  I just want the best bang for the buck.  I used to rent a couple
>> servers from theplanet.com they were awesome bang for the buck as far as
>> bandwidth.  For $200 a month you can get a quad core Xeon with a constant 39
>> ms ping to cox Omaha, 100mbit connection with 5TB of monthly xfer.  I'd use
>> them again but I want to run my own hardware and OS and they start at a full
>> rack for colo.  I ran across calpop.com they seem a little shady but
>> $100-$150 a month for 10mbit unmetered 4U it is the best I have found so
>> far.  I'd like to hear your thoughts.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll eventually get the hang of this email list thing it's sort of like a
>> news group without the base 64.  At first I was like wtf they are using an
>> email list instead of community builder and fireboard on their joomla
>> site.... this is cool just not what I have become accustom to over the past
>> 10 or so years of using forums.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking forward to the bacula presentation.  I played around with it
>> briefly.  It sure would save me some dents in my head to have someone show
>> me.  I have just been using xcopy and scp cron jobs and I know there's a
>> better way.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I only see the world though my eyes I will miss most of it,
>>
>>
>>
>> Aric Aasgaard
>>
>> aric at omahax.com
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