Re: [cobalt-users] Need advice on Colocating or Self Location

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Stern wrote:

> > And sharing it puts you into the colo business, out of your core area of
> > expertise; the area in which you can make money.
> 
> Ok, true, but making the sales and the sites for one, always a good idea.

Not sure I understand.  Owning a colo center will NOT assure you of any
work developing sites.  Except for your own colo center, and I don't see
that paying too well <smile>.

> Ok, see above.  This really is a special case.  Tour our facilities :)
> http://www.openmri4u.com
> I made that site :)

Then I hope you don't mind me telling you that while it comes up fine on
IE, it took over five minutes for it to come up on Netscape 4.72, and
almost a minute on Netscape 6.2.2.

And the traceroute won't go all the way through; is it on a DSL
connection?  That's one of the "symptoms" of DSL.

> I'll pay cash if you have some change to spare.  But I am looking for
> investors.  Lol.  Anyone want to fund my .com startup, I'll give you a
> business plan after the check cashes. ;)

Wait a second... you're looking for investors for a colo center with so
many of them empty across the U.S.?

Now I understand what you mean by "pipe dreams" <smile>.

> Does your friend live on the business end of the camera, or behind it?

Will reply offlist.

> He's cramped for space at the moment, and they provide the raq.  It is a
> first class data center though, lotsa climate control, security, etc.  Much
> better than a previous co-lo, where they would unplug their hardware
> firewall when they cleaned the server Rack.  We had to call them to remind
> them to plug it back in :(

Will do.  We have a RaQ at the same price as your friend.  It's got 500
megs of memory, and two 30 Gigabyte hard drives (runs Raid).

> > Open invitation to one of my buddies to list my prices <smile>.
> 
> Shoot them to me offlist if you would.  I like to know. . .

Will do <smile>.

> Because people pay for it, and because I can.  Nice thing about the raq, I
> can make instructions for a tech supporter in no time.  Already have a
> training newb for making template driven sites :)  I do train people in web
> design, its makes me a better designer when I teach.

Good luck <smile>.

> > Hmmmm.... by 1995 I'd been online for almost 20 years.  Does it matter
> No, it doesn't matter, but I do pine for LYNX whenever IE crashes.

Good, since my next point was going to be that I ran my first BBS, "The
Fastest Board in the West" since 1997 <smile>.

> I have one and am going to make it a nice dedicated dns box soon.
> If you want, I have the full 7.6 os on floppy and cd.  It runs very well on
> old i386 machines too.  We put it on a 166 back then and it screamed.  I
> prefer os x.  will make a bigger post about that soon, if asked.  Will
> switch full time next week when new dsl modem arrives.

Does OS-X run unchanged on the Next box?  That'll give the hardware some
survival value <smile>.

I don't do anything Apple; never did, though they were casual friends
back in the mid 70s.  Almost everyone was; I was a founding member of
Homebrew, first in Gordon French's garage, later at the Linear
Accelerator Lab at Stanford.

> > The price I mentioned is real and available today.  Perhaps you're
> > talking to the wrong Cogent people?
> >
> > Or perhaps they've started raising prices and Miami is first?  I don't
> > know.
> 
> Entirely possible, zone pricing.  Gas stations do it, no reason that
> bandwidth providers wouldn't.

I'll try to remember to do some asking around.

Jeff
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