[68544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Sun Mar 14 03:06:40 2004
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:10:01 -0800
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
There are other good reasons to colo a server
rather than have it at home:
1) Colo facility easier to get generator and *real* UPS
lifetime for at affordable rates.
2) Colo facility upstream networking not subject to the whims
of increasingly incompetent broadband providers.
3) Colo facility can have redundant networking a lot cheaper
than home users (and simpler... trying to get BGP fed
up a DSL link of any budget, to have truly redundant
networking at home, isn't possible that I know of,
and is increasingly difficult with full budget T-1s
unless you know someone).
And last but not least:
4) Proper quality servers make more noise than I want in my office
at home.
I have been paying order of $200/month for reasonably
high end home internet since the days when that was Netcom
and a 14.4k dialup modem and a Class C, though I now get
much more bandwidth. Due to service level declines
I have been looking into redundant connectivity.
But the options suck.
Precisely as Paul points out, me taking my Sun V100 and
sticking it in someone else's rack, were it $50/month,
would be an *excellent* solution for me on all levels.
I do not know that there are several racks full of people
like me, even in the SF Bay area, but I would be willing
to bet that the answer is yes.
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com
