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I have a very good friend who is a sales manager at SoftLayer who I can hook you up with and he can get you great discounts and such. Let me know.</div><div><br></div><div><span id="goog_1031262309"></span><span id="goog_1031262310"></span><span id="goog_1031262311"></span><span id="goog_1031262312"></span>I have friends with servers at HE, they seem to like it, but I do not know about these power issues. The speeds are pretty good, especially between his server at HE and his servers at EvoSwitch in Amsterdam.<br>
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<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:</p>
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<div><div><div>Some more information. You really don't want to be in HE in fremont, they are a horrible facility. They had some major power issues this past year. Also you would want to be where there are peering centers. I would suggest chicago, dc, nyc, san jose. At my company, we collocate in equnix down there. It is a good place to colo but usually they do stuff by the cage. My suggestion would be to find someone with space there and colo with them. They have the best/cheapest bandwidth. I used to work in the hosting industry and have some insight if you want to sit and talk about it next time you see me. I have heard good things about softlayer as well and if you need some help with your server, I can help with that too! I also happen to have a dedicated box doing not too much and I host various sites for people in the community, if you want me to host for you, I am sure it could be arranged and I would be more than happy to scale as necessary for you. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Mitch Altman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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From: <a href="mailto:drorex@gmail.com" target="_blank">drorex@gmail.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:02:20 -0800<div class="im"><br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] colo in and around SF?<br></div>To: <a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a><div class="im">
<br>CC: <a href="mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br><br></div><div><div class="h5"><a href="http://he.net/" target="_blank">http://he.net/</a> in Fremont has some incredibly decent prices for colocation, and while it's not in SF, it's close enough that you can drive out there if something needs manual fixin'. I think I saw a quote of like $1000/month for an entire rack full of your equipment with a 100mbit dedicated line. This might be out of your range though. You can get a decent entry dedicated server (you run the entire piece of hardware, no sharing or virtualization going on) for around $200/mo these days. I've used <a href="http://www.softlayer.com/" target="_blank">http://www.softlayer.com/</a> -- no significant problems with them so far. If that's still too much, colocating an individual server (that you buy yourself) within someone else's rack usually starts around $100/month. Lower than that, you're looking at shared or virtualized hosting.<br>
<br>I would recommend against EC2 unless you specifically need the ability to scale up and down on a moments notice (and are willing to put in the extra work to set it up correctly). For just a standard monthly rental, EC2 costs significantly more than even a leased dedicated server, never mind a self-colo'd server. They do have a thing where you can reserve an instance on a 1 year or 3 year basis, and that brings the costs down a bit to be more in line, but don't forget they also charge you for bandwidth & storage on top of the normal hourly server rental rates. Basically it's a nice technical solution, but not cost competitive except in some niche cases (eg if 50% of the time you have zero traffic, and 50% of the time you have tons of traffic, it might really be worth it)<br>
<br>Also I'd recommend against anything in SF itself...you are probably paying more for the location than anything else. Also I personally got burned by a really crappy managed host in SF before, so I'm a bit biased. They're not around any more, or at least not under the same name. (All I'll say is this: When setting up our servers + a fancy SAN, the tech told us he couldn't get it to work with debian or centos, so he had to install gentoo.)<br>
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<div>I'm considering an option to setup my own server at a colo space in the SF Bay Area. Though the site normally gets a couple thousand hits a day, and sometimes several thousand hits, it will occassionally need some pretty big bandwidth. Anyone have any opinions on who to use and not to use?<br>
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