I am located in Japan and presently am renting a dedicated windows 2003 server hosted in the US. However, most of my sites (about ten) cater to the local Japanese market. When I do a ping or traceroute to my server in the U.S. and compare it with same for servers in Japan, there is a world of difference.
8 hops in Japan as compared to 18 to the U.S. server. The hops in Japan are about 13 ms but the hops within the U.S. are 130 to 200ms from my location.
Based on this information, I would assume I would be better off having a server physically located here in Japan.
If I were running Linux, I would have no problems finding a good plan but I run Windows 2003 (all my sites are in ASP) and there isn't that much avaialble here. I got some quotes and even though the server rentals are reasonable, they kill you on options. Also, for some reason the plans here do not have additional IP's available as an option.
Backups are so high that they tell you to get two servers (nonsense).
I have also looked into colo in Japan. Most want you to rent a full rack. I found one that wanted $400 for 1/4 rack but then I would have to pay for a line on top of it.
The cost of bringing in a T1 line into my office is $275/mt which I think is reasonable (considering what stuff costs in Japan). My sites are not high traffic so a T1 line is probably enough. There is also 1GB optical fiber for the consumer market but I would think the T1 would be more reliable.
I realize there are those that insist that a server be located in a data center but power outings do not happen that often here. The office is located on the 5th floor of an office building.
I've noticed on a T3 quote site that regardless of T3 speed, they seem to give you the same local loop connection (as it costs the same for each one). [url]It shows some of my information but I don't really mind (come get me! ). Notice that the local loop for T3 whether its 5 mbits or 45 mbits is ~1800 a month. Is that really what a local loop rated for T3 speeds costs?
I am in the bay area, in pleasanton specifically. It would be awesome to get a local loop to a datacenter and then pickup some bandwidth cheap from a provider. Does anyone have experience with local loops, and know their general price range and availability etc? I'd rather probe around here and be prepared before I go and give various providers a ring.
HE.net in fremont is about 14.7 miles from the office, and MPT in san jose is about 30 miles away from us.
We have co-location space at a local San Diego data center with a 100mbps connection. We are looking for a faster internet connection at our office (currently just have DSL with is 1.5mbps down, 768kbps up) which is literally 2 miles away from the data center. I may be completely offbase and wrong here, but is there way we can setup a VPN connection or direct Point-to-Point connection between our office and our shared cabinet, and then utilize the internet connection and bandwidth provided by our shared cabinet for our office?
If this is possible, I would assume we would need special hardware, which is fine, just need details on how this works. Currently we have a SonicWall TZ180 at our shared cabinet and a Hotbrick SoHo 401W at the office.
I have comcast cable with good speed, and would like to set up a web servers for five domains. Comcast does not provide more than one ip. Hence, I wanted to setup a dns server to host five different domains using this one ip for dns servers.
First, is it possible to host many domains with one public ip and many private ips.
I'm running plesk 11.5.30 and I'm having an issue with the new word doc format (.docx) being recognized as a zip file. I've read several posts that explain what mime types to add, and I've found the spot where I need to enter them. The part I'm not sure about is whether the custom mime types field is an addition to the current mime types or a replacement list. Does that field just needs the new mime types or a full list?
Please give me the difference. Colo in carrier hotel, we can choose our preferred network provider, but should we do that if we cannot have our own tech in datacenter? How about the supporting service from carrier hotel? Just general question, cause I dont address exactly which facility.
And the second would be more expensive? Saying the same number of rack, amount of bandwidth... Who is providing IP addresses then?
I've been out of the game for a while and now looking at colo prices each server is only allocated 0.5a on most plans.
I was looking at purchasing a 1u HP DL160 dual quad core system with at least dual sata raided drives
My question is what kind of amps would a system like this pull? and how much do data centers typically charge for that additional power if it needed over the .5
if anyone knew hosts (other then FDC in USA) that offers 1U-4U/midtower colocation with 100Mbit or greater uplink, with atleast 2TB of transfer. With IRC allowed.
My budget is ~$100, I'm fairly sure it can be done as I saw FDC had one for $79, and it would be fine though I was hoping if anyone knew any others.
Also, Giga-International has what I need, are they reliable?
colo of a 1u server that would need 500gig per month of b/w and I perferably would like to find a DC in NY/northern NJ or southern CT although in my search I seem to be getting price quotes of $100+ per month which I think is insane when I see dedicateds with more b/w for the same amount or even less.
I know most will say just get a dedicated server somewhere but my requirments are that I need a server with a lot of ram and at least a dual cpu and dedicate's with a dual cpu and 2gigs or more of ram seem to be much more thenmy budget.
So any suggestions for a $60 or less per month colo space with 500gig of b/w or a dedicated server provider offering a server in that price range with dual cpu and 2gig ddr ram and 80gig hdd?
By the way I looked at ezzi.net which has a $49 deal on a dedicated server but no option to have one with a dual cpu:
I have had experience with reselling hosting using HostGator seller. My job was basically to run my site and get customers, set up price plans etc on WHM. I sold that company a while back. I am ready to have another shot at hosting, but this time I want to use my own servers...
I have found a great site, which has customisations etc. on servers (http://www.cybertronpc.com), but they don't ship to UK. (If I'm using colo is US, could I get it shipped straight to them?)
My main question is, is colo needed? If I am going to setup this company the Data-Center is not going to be local, either London or in US. So there is no chance of me going down unless it is to pick up my server . So I think I'm going to need a maintaned service I think. The server will be used for clients data (shared hosting). So what services will I need in terms of security and stability? What am I looking for in a colo service? What about back-ups of data on the server? Is that my responsibility or can it be bought as a service? Ok... now I'm guessing that I'm going to need colo...
What are common problems etc. with servers? Am I going to need virtual IP connection for maintainance... Is it best I pay for this or a service operator? Any recommendations on where to have the colo (i'm based in UK) and why? What can I do when it is time for me to request my server back from UK?
When changing colo services is there any way of avoiding down-time?
currently I have managed several dedicated servers. I plan to colo it with 1 rack at a datacentre. So, before I buy hardware or software, I need some helpful info/guide.
- I need my server can be monitored, reboot remotely. What kind of hardware is require and please suggest some models.
- Which software is suitable for billing, monitoring. Please suggest any software come with good API since I plan to develop own small control panel later.
What is the best indication for a web hosting company to move from dedicated server to colocation?
I have several low end dedis and im thinking of buying an enterprise class server with lots of diskspace (raid 5, dual power, ecc, etc.), have it colocated and move all the accounts to that server. I would be saving in the long run but kinda turned-off due to all eggs in one (enterprise-class) basket dilema. I woud be saving on server management cost too because I'm signing up one machine only instead of several.
Is going colocation a natural progression of the web hosting business cycle? We start off with a Reseller Account in the beginning - then grow and lease a Dedicated Server. And then grow and lease another and another..... Is colocation the next big step?
I'm considering going with CalPop for one of my colo sites. I've read the user reviews and apart from those who were chaffed because of scratched servers and reboots they seem decent enough. My take on sticking anything in a datacenter is to stick it in yourself and rent the entire rack. That should take care of 90% of the negative reviews I have read, so my question is does any one have any real review of their services? Bandwidth performance, etc?
Secondly, I need a second colo for a redundant server. I'd like to find something closer on the East coast that offers the same pricing structure and services.
Anyone know what firewall do I need for my colo? I want to protect external IP. Here is my setup
3 servers, all have two nic cards, one of the cards will be the external IP and the other one will be LAN IP. So my question is what hardware firewall do I need to protect the External IP?
I was thinking of a cisco pix 515e. Which only route external IP to the LAN IP. I need something where I don't have to route, It just protect the external IP.
I need 1U of space, .5 amp (50 watts) power, one IP, 2.5mbps bidirectional bandwidth (total of 5mbps up + down) and about 10GB of traffic per day each direction (total of 20GB up + down). Would be nice if they have remote KVM along with console (serial) access. Location should be anywhere in USA.
Purpose is to host a VPN router for various remote locations to connect in to. Reliability and good connection (low latency) is important.
I've been a colo since the beginning of time. My servers are getting old so I've started pricing options, and it looks like dedicated is the way to go today. But I'm not sure...
I suppose it depends on the host. My host says "if you're colo, we provide admin at an hourly rate. If your machine needs a reboot, call us and we reboot it. If you're dedicated we don't touch your server beyond repairing it. If it needs a reboot, you login to our site and click a link and it is rebooted."
That doesn't seem like much of a difference. I'd need an off-site admin, but both charge by the hour, so no big deal. A live person reboot seems no better than a web-based software reboot. In fact I'll wager that the "live person" just logs in and clicks the link for me.
Colo is about twice as expensive as dedicated. That seems like the only big difference.
It also seems to me that with today's cPanel-style admin it's trivial to migrate to a new host, so competition to keep clients is intense. I'm guessing that keeps prices down. Reading between the lines of what my host says, I can tell he doesn't really want me to go dedicated. He kinda said they don't make much money on dedicated machines.
I have a web hosting business that has been growing constantly for a couple of years, now I think it's time to move on and instead of leasing servers start with colocation and operating my own hardware, I'm in Mexico and there are no good deals here as there are in other countries, so I have several questions about your appreciation of where things are better for business, US or Canada:
Where is colo cheaper? Where is hardware cheaper? Where is personnel less costly? Where is personnel better qualified? Where is office space cheaper? Where is electrical energy cheaper? Where are more investment opportunities? Where are taxes lower? Where is living less costly?
I've been researching these on my own but still have several doubts, may be you find some of this question obvious however I'd still like to know your appreciation.
Are there any established providers that offer this? I want an established company who isn't going to run off with my server, and they need to provide high quality bandwidth(Level3, AT&T, Sprint, etc) with 100% Power SLA, etc. in a secure facility.
IE: If I buy my own servers can I ship them out to a datacenter to have them fully managed, basically being a dedicated server? Except i'll own the hardware, and they provide the bandwidth, management, etc.
