[aprssig] findU bogged down...

[Drew Baxter]

Any hosting places I've looked at stashing a colo machine in were more 
expensive than taking their dedicated machine.. All in all I've seen about 
500 a month for half a megabit and 8U.. Makes more sense for me to have 
SDSL lines run here and put the hardware in my own rack where the K1XVM 
I-Gate is.

You'd think it'd be cheaper to use your own machine, but apparently their 
responsibility (and the fact they have to let you access it) makes it 
inflated... So I've found anyway.

I'd be interested to find a reliable colocation that wasn't ridiculously 
priced.. Perhaps I'd reconsider when one of the other ventures I'm working 
with switches over to dedicated later in the year. :)

--Droo, @Network

At 12:27 PM 1/10/2005, Steve Dimse wrote:
>Might not be, the bandwidth is around a Terrabyte a month, there are 
>places like
>serverbeach that put you on a dedicated machine with 2 TB/month for 100/month.
>Their servers are not nearly powerful enough for my needs, but the 
>bandwidth is.
>I never looked for paid colo sites, but I suspect they are in the same general
>range. Since I have spent around $4k on a server every year I've been 
>doing the
>APRS IS and findU (Moore's Law is keeping up with demand), the bandwidth would
>be less than the server by a good margin...
>
>Fortunately, the colo site is donated by a ham who is the CTO of a large 
>hosting
>company, so I don't have to know...