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

[Eric Beversluis]

What about something like http://www.wmishosting.com/colocation.php?

On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 22:47 -0500, Rob Steenwyk wrote:
> I work for Trivalent, but off the top of my head I have no idea what
> we charge for co-lo. I can find out tomorrow if you want? We do have a
> pretty nice datacenter in Grandville. My guess is our price is on the
> higher end to be completely honest.
> On Feb 13, 2011 9:23 PM, "Joseph Workman" <joseph.workman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > hey joseph - 
> >
> > have you looked into Trivalent Group ?
> >
> > 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> 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>
> 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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> > Workman Technology Services
> >
> > O.616.827.7570
> > C.616.734.1411
> >
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