Thanks for all the feedback already guys! I'm just going to reply to everyone at once to keep this to one message.
Michael and Jonathan - I've emailed the respective sales reps you recommended, thanks! Ted - I noticed that, and yes, I've checked Netriver, they meter power at $0.16/kWh, so they're on my list but not my first choice. Their bandwidth charges seem reasonable though. Luke - What you say makes sense. Honestly, I'll admit, I never really paid attention to the intricacies of colo billing until it was going to be _me_ shelling out the dollars. Shame on me :). Shane - I'll ping them, thanks for the recommendation. My plan here is to move a good chunk of my equipment out of my second bedroom and into a proper datacenter here due to power and cooling costs (although I only pay $0.083/kWh... that's starting to seem cheap), and lack of available bandwidth (The best I can do is 3Mbps/768Kbps DSL lines, where I'm at). Then I'd ping people I know and see if they want room on the equipment in return for a few bucks a month to offset the colo cost. I know a few already, but not enough to make a move to colo space less painful. I'm starting to question the wisdom of this plan ;). -- Nick Whalen <[email protected]> On 4/6/2011 3:00 PM, Nick Whalen wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently shopping around for about 1/4 to 1/2 rack of colo space > in the Seattle area with ~5Mbps of bandwidth, preferably burstable. > So far I've only received two quotes, one from Worldlink, which seems > too good to be true, and one from Superb Internet, which ended up > being just plain absurd ($697/month & $712/setup for 1/4U and 5Mbps... > on a 12 month contract?!). > > Worldlink, appears to have a rather tarnished reputation, and after > reading http://edwyseguru.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/24/ I'm beginning > to see why. > > Thus my options are... nonexistent. > > Do any of you know of any colo facilities up in my neck of the woods > that have reasonable prices? I'd prefer facilities that don't meter > power, as the VM hosts and SAN that I plan on dropping in aren't, > shall we say, green :). > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Nick Whalen <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
