Re: [cobalt-users] Hosting suggestions ?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony wrote:

> ? ? ?
> Your minimum relocate service price is 200 USD/Month ! ?
> I can lease a Cobalt RaQ4i with 128 Mb Ram as 180 USD/Month !
> So ? ? ?
> 
> So have at it guy. Go for your $180 quasi-lease. Nothing stopping you.
> But make sure you're comparing apples with apples and not oranges.
> BTW, the average US price for minimal bandwidth colocation is $250
> per 1U slot. $200 is very reasonable. Of course anyone paying less than
> $200 total for their Internet operation is just playing with a kitchen-table
> business model.

While I won't argue with either your good value us$200/month price, or
your "average" (though I don't know where you found it) of us$250/month,
I though that since everyone else is putting their plug in onlist, I
might as well chime in and announce our us$150/month 1U colo, which
includes 30 Gigabytes of data transfer, with speed throttling at T-1
speed.

Our main advantage is definitely knowledgeable Cobalt RaQ service,
though, and that does cost extra with us, as with just about every colo
company I know of.

> The real cost in colocation or dedicated servers is the bandwidth and
> even a moderately successful site is gonna pull enough bandwidth to cost
> $1000+ a month.

Depends how you define success.  I've got a site making me a few
thousand dollars every month; it only uses about 5 gig of transfer a
month (http://www.mailtraqna.com/).

Jeff
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