[GRLUG] Co-location hosting in or near GR/Muskegon

[Bob Kline]

One can now appreciate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber>Full duplex 50Mbps service for $58 a
month, showing what a 50Mbps should
cost, but never will from the big names.

Of course one lives in MI, not a more
progressive state like LA....  And clearly
Google has lost interest in its fanciful
1Gbps system.

Just curious.  The website says "starting
at $59," or thereabouts.  But what would
a 50Mbps, full duplex service cost?  I won't
even pretend one could get it to a typical
house.  Dick DeVoss's pad maybe....

   -- Bob


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Joseph VanDerStelt <
joseph.vanderstelt at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 11-02-13 06:54 PM, Ben Rousch wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
>
>  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?
>
>  I can't speak for Bruce, but generally people co-locate for one of two
> reasons: 1. You actually control your own hardware instead of a
> virtual machine ultimately owned by someone else in a far-off land. 2.
> You can have much larger amounts of RAM and especially HD in your own
> server compared to what you can usually get from a VPS for the same
> price.
>
>
>
> Ben, you got it absolutely correct. What I am doing requires a large amount
> of CPU usage and RAM. I have all the hardware, I just need better bandwidth,
> no port blocking, and a static IP would be nice. The current 2M up on my
> residential line is not keeping up. I am also displeased with the blocking
> of incoming ports such as port 80.
>
> Like I said before, I have the hardware and want to put it to task.
>
> ASUS KGPE-D16 Dual Socket G34 AMD Mother Board
> AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server Processor
> Crucial 6GB DDR3 1333
> Corsair Nova 32GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive
>
> Planning on buying standard hard drives for bulk storage and back-ups at
> some point.
>
> http://loric.dyndns.org:90/junk/
>
>
>
>   On 02/13/2011 04:30 PM, Clay Ashby wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Bruce Smith <blubdog at gmail.com> <blubdog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> It is honestly just a project for my own enjoyment and learning. This is
> why price is a major factor. Though, I have considered providing free or
> extremely cheap hosting to some non-profit groups like the Muskegon Railroad
> Historical Society.
>
>
>
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