[LUNI] Recommendations for CoLo or Hosting

[Seva Epsteyn]

I've been using FDCServers.net for a number of years, their service is not 
the best, they are not the most reliable or professional, but they are 
pretty cheap at $100/mo for 10mbit/s port of shared unmetered bandwidth.  

They are located in the Chicago Board Of Trade building and I have hosted 
luni.org there for quite a while. If your server runs hot you may have 
problems, they often rely on openining windows in the summer for cooling.  
I don't know if that's still true and they have apparently opened a new 
data center room there as well, so perhaps heat issues are better now.

Looking at their web site right now, I don't see the $99/mo plan, but I 
bet if you contact them they'll do it.

On their forums I see this deal though:

	ECONOMY COLO
	single rack server up to 4U or tower server
	1Mbit port - full duplex
	Dedicated bandwidth
	Electric included
	FREE SETUP - $49/month

Seems like a good deal for $50/mo.

Oh, they've increaesd the fees by $10/mo apparently to offset electrical 
costs increase starting this month.


-Seva

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Jay Strauss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to run an Oracle database, Apache, and Perl (and many perl
> modules).  I currently have a T1 into my basement, but for various
> reasons would like to move it somewhere safer, with a faster (maybe
> redundant) internet connection, clean and backed up power source...
> 
> My current T1 runs me about $300/mo for a 768/768
> 
> Can anyone recommend an inexpensive colo facility?  Ideally one that
> wouldn't require me to have a rack mountable server.
> 
> Would a hosting service let me install Oracle?  If so, any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks
> Jay
>