where to buy server locally

[Mike Garfias]

Darin -

Your numbers there are a bit off.  I took a WAG based on the prices quoted on
your site for what it would cost me for a 1U box with 1Mbps.

According to your page, a 1U system is $45 in rack fees, and $135 for 50GB
with each additional GB being $3.

1Mbps = 330GB (roughly)
330-50 = 280
280 * 3 = $840/mo

Right now I pay $100mo for rack space with bandwidth included (1Mbps 95th
percentile) with each additional Mbps being $100.  So $100 vs your $106, but
your $106 doesn't include the same bandwidth that is included in what I get.

So it really looks more like 1/8th the price.  And there are cheaper deals out
there (I just didn't feel comfortable using them).  We get monitoring, remote
reboot, serial consoles, etc included.  The downside is that my box is in LA,
not local.  But I pay a friend of mine in LA to go down there and beat on it
when the serial console isn't enough.

Not trying to flame you in anyway, but just keep the numbers straight.


Darin Wayrynen spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 
> There is no way we could stay in business selling colocation space and
> bandwidth for $21.20 (the quoted 1/5 of our price someone mentioned
> earlier).  It's hardly worth our time to bill and service a colocation
> customer for that much money.  We don't understand how anyone else
> could stay in business either, unless their game plan is grow big and
> sell out, at which point economics don't figure into the equation.