Hi Mark,

I would suggest a cost-benefits analysis of an in-house
versus outsourced data center.  I worked for a web hosting
company and by bringing the boxes in-house, we save $10K
per month (after paying my salary, electricity, and
bandwidth).  This was for 50 servers.

My side business can no way afford connectivity of any
kind, so I outsource.  Low volume sites (500MB transfer
per month and < 5MB of content) costs me $1 per month.
Bigger sites cost me $5/month, and includes 5GB of transfer.

A coworker has a T1 in his house, it costs $375/month,
and he hosts five boxes.  I have a DS3 and it costs me 
$5/month.  He pays $25 more in electricity/month than I
do.  He also has full control over the servers.

The last time I checked (18 months ago), routing a 
fractional T3 (15mbit) cost about $8K to set up and about
$6K/month plus local loop charges.  I know prices have
fallen since then.

YMMV.

I am interested in the CBA, if you can share that.

George


Mark Astrauskas wrote:
> 
> My company is looking to start hosting web pages and
> possibly offer some ISP services and we are in need of
> a company that can provide this. We are going to need
> the connection to go to the location of our business
> (in Mesa). Can anyone recommend a company that can
> offer this sort of service? All I've been told about
> the requirements is it needs be somewhere in the T1 or
> even DS3 range.
> 
> -A.P. Etc
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