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I'm curious. Why insist on colocating your own hardware at that kind
of price when you can rent a virtual machine from a cloud provider
like Amazon's S3 much more cheaply? Is there some specialized
hardware on the machines that can't be virtualized, or maybe
security fears?<br>
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On 02/13/2011 04:30 PM, Clay Ashby wrote:
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type="cite">I'm interested in the details. I'm planning on doing
some hosting services in the future. Is this purely for
redundancy; like a "hot site"? Is it for hosting websites
redundantly, or other services as well?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Bruce
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<div class="im">> I was wondering if anyone of you knew of
any decently priced co-location<br>
> hosting in the Grand Rapids or Muskegon area. The need
is non-commercial so<br>
> price is a BIG factor, but I would be willing to pay if
the price is right.<br>
> If you want more details on my needs, feel free to ask.<br>
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I'm in Kalamazoo and a couple years ago we searched for a
nearby<br>
co-location facility that is cheap. We searched Kalamazoo,
Grand<br>
Rapids, Lansing, and other areas within a driving distance of<br>
Kalamazoo.<br>
<br>
Most were in the $400/month range, which is what was more that
we<br>
wanted to pay. The closest thing we found that was "cheap",
was a<br>
place in South Bend IN. who's equivalent price was $70/month.
It was<br>
a farther drive for us (and even farther for you), but we went
with<br>
them and it's worked out okay so far. It's nothing fancy
(kinda dumpy<br>
actually). Just an old building in an old part of town, with
cheap<br>
racks in a large room. But they had good bandwidth, power
backup and<br>
A/C. Definitely a budget shop, and their prices reflect it<br>
significantly.<br>
<br>
Let me know if you want more info.<br>
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