Dedicated server hosting?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya jake

name the price range you wanna pay, and oyu can find
people that will fit that budget

name the "SLA" you want, and/or tech support proficiency
and you eliminate lots of possible vendors ??
	- tech support will be a major key if you
	need your servers to stay up and running ...

5Mbps .. sustained .. you've eliminated lots of the
smaller webhosting outfits ( and you're now looking for real colos )

- i say, watch out for those "overselling" of the same bandwidth
  gazillion times over

c ya
alvin

- from my poking around last few weeks..
	level3		$ 900 full rack + $800 for 5Mbps 
	he.net		$ 400 full rack + $100 for 1Mbps ( $400/5Mbps)
	layer42		$ 500 full rack w/ 1Mbps
	...
	uu.net		used to be good .. till mci took over
			and is now a giant mess, though they
			still carry 25% of the worlds traffic

	and you can get either level3 or he.net for lot less if you go
	"shopping" around

	(bankrupt) above.net is now mfn.net
	(tinkering on bk) cogent.net was/is the old psi.net

- major pops/naps
	http://www.navigators.com/isp.html   ( good stuff )
 	http://www.micro-colo.net/POP.gifs/


On Sun, 25 May 2003, Jake Fahnert wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I'm new to the list, so I hope it's ok to ask this type of question
> here.
> 
> I'm starting up a project, and I need a place to host a few servers.
> I'd rather lease some servers, but most of the places I've checked out
> seem to have rather high prices, for slow intel hardware.  We're running
> a postgres db, and apache-2.0.45 with php & mod_perl, to do some pretty
> heavy updates & selects for an application we're building, so speed is
> important.. We're probably going to push out about 5megabit/s sustained.
> 
> Does anybody have a place they've used before, that they can refer me
> to?
>