Re: [cobalt-users] Hosting suggestions ?

["Dana J. Laude" <dlaude@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Lasman wrote:
<snip>
> 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

Bandwidth = $$'s for sure.  To those of you bitching about
the costs of a colo, call up you're local PacBell (whatever)
and inquire about a T1 and local-loop charges, or better yet
a DS3 or better.  Then add you're Cisco gear, RaQ's and a
few employee's. I bet you already hit $30k + monthly charges.

And to top it off, the site actually looks good under
Netscape! ;-)  (something others should learn!)

Dana
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Linux / OpenBSD - Ain't life grand! :)