[GRLUG] GR bandwidth pricing?

[scott.tanner at comcast.net]

I just finished comparing VPS and co-lo space with a local ISP  (1 rack w/ power and Internet Circuit vs 11 virtual servers and similar bandwidth ) for a DR infrastructure, and the virtual servers were slightly cheaper.  Factor in the lack of hardware maintenance and ease of scalability and VPS is hard to beat - providing you can guarantee the same performance levels (if needed).


Regards,
Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> 
To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 2:26:11 PM 
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] GR bandwidth pricing? 

On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Matthew Seeley wrote: 

> Do you need this directly at your home or business. Or can your servers be 
> co-located in an already-wired data center around town ? 
> 
In general, few bandwidth providers offer symmetrical bandwidth at 100Mbps. 

That was also my 2nd thought, .. that sort of bandwidth would require a 
pretty expensive intrastructure - 10K+ UPS, 50KW+ generator, etc. 

Renting a rack at a CoLo facitlity might be a lot simpler and less 
costly, .. OR consider a small cluster of VPS machines.. 

Lee 
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