Best Colo/Dedicated Server Place?

CobaltCobalt Connecticut
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
Hey,

A bud [or 2] and I are going to launch a webhosting company in early January. I found a decent server with the following specs:

-Celeron 1.7ghz
-256mb ram
-80gb HDD
-1000gb xfer/month
-cPanel + redhat 9
-10mbps connection + 5IP's

for around $79/mo

But one of the friends has a server: It's a tower with:

-2.4ghz P4 [I'm pretty sure]
-1gb Ram
-250gb HDD

So we'd like to use that. Does anyone know of any good colo places that can host towers with a decent connection for ~ or less than $100/mo?

Either that or a dedicated server that's cheaper than above. :)

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Check out www.route256.com. That's who I colocate with, and I own a hosting company and also host this site on a colo box. The bandwidth is incredible and the prices are very competitive.
  • CobaltCobalt Connecticut
    edited December 2003
    Hey man, thanks.

    But is a 512kb/sec connection good enough for a web + mush hosting company.

    [btw, mush is a text-based telnet game thingy.]
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    512K/sec? huh? The speeds are way way higher than that. You buy bandwidth in bulk, by mb/transferred when you buy wholesale. This place sits on verio's backbone so you've got like an OC48 to ride on.......
  • CobaltCobalt Connecticut
    edited December 2003
    Yeah, but these are the specs of the colo place:

    1U - 4U Rack Space
    1 Power Outlet
    2 IP Addresses
    512 Kb/s Bandwidth
    Free Cold/Soft Reboots
    Discounted CPANEL/WinPanel License
    Live Bandwidth Reports
    MAE-West OC3 Bandwidth
    Free Off Server Backup

    Is my speed restricted? Or is it my bandwidth? Approx. how much bandwidth can I get with this/mo?
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited December 2003
    Yeah, but these are the specs of the colo place:

    1U - 4U Rack Space
    1 Power Outlet
    2 IP Addresses
    512 Kb/s Bandwidth
    Free Cold/Soft Reboots
    Discounted CPANEL/WinPanel License
    Live Bandwidth Reports
    MAE-West OC3 Bandwidth
    Free Off Server Backup

    You never got that quote from route256, LOL.

    Usually, that's your 95th usage, sometimes its a hard cap. You have to contact them to see. The more bandwidth you have behind your box, the more its going to cost. It's alot cheaper to give you 512K and not let you burst multi megabits than to let you fully burst and still only charge the 95th.
  • CobaltCobalt Connecticut
    edited December 2003
    Heh, still had e-mail notification enabled. :D

    I think we've found our place:

    FDCServers.net
    • 5mbps Line w/Yipes!, Cogent, and XO [well, with the cheaper plan it's only Yipes!]
    • Unmetered Bandwidth
    • 100mbps Port
    • Free Reboots and IP's
    • Free Cpanel

    All for $99/mo. They even pick up your server and will pay for 2nd Day FedEx to their datacenter. Free setup too. :)
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited December 2003
    You should atleast read their forums. Their own clients complain about outages and very poor network performance.

    You do get what you pay for.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Y'know, this may be unrelated, but I just went to their site, and it is running exceptionally slow..... :wtf:
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited December 2003
    Ya, it took about 2 minutes here to load the images, but I wasn't going to say anything cause people would think I'm just trying to slam them.

    But read their forums, alot of complaints centered around quality, speed, and reliability.

    There is a long list of things you can do to a network to cut costs. We don't do them because our clients are willing to pay for the quality. Unfortunatly, the only way most clients can tell the difference is bad experiences. Over 75% of our clients are people that left a budget hosting company because of support and service related problems. Yet, our last survey, not one single section scored less than completely satisfied from any client. *shrug* You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.
  • CobaltCobalt Connecticut
    edited December 2003
    Yeah, I was thinking that too. (and yes, I have read their forums.)
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited December 2003
    If you were going to have a personal box just to play around with, I would say your cheapest bet would be go to server matrix.

    But, for business hosting, you don't have alot of choices. Not at anything near a reasonable rate. You can't afford to have a problem, and not have it resolved ASAP. I know very few companys that are serious about business hosting. Rackspace is the first on everyones mind, then a long list of guys like us that aren't as well advertised. Good luck in your adventures. I spent 2 years looking for a hosting company before I opened one up myself because it was not possible to find quality at a fair price.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Cobalt, seriously, the only relationship I have with Rob is that I'm his client, but I am writing this as the owner of short-media and the owner of my own reasonably sized hosting company: Dude, honestly, you will not find a better co-loc company than his. He is dead-set on providing the best tech support in the industry, and his pricing is phenomenal for the speed and reliability of his network. I highly recommend that you consider him for your needs.

    Rob, so about that commission check :D;D
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Rob had this to say
    Ya, it took about 2 minutes here to load the images, but I wasn't going to say anything cause people would think I'm just trying to slam them.

    I hope they don't host their own website :crazy::scratch:
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