Looking at co-lo

[stuartbuckell]

Hi there,

We currently have our servers running @ rackspace. Needless to say, they are always online, excellent support from Rackspace, but one thing bothers me, and that is the constant shift in monthly prices for extra ram/hd, etc.

Which makes expanding, very costly. I can understand the "insurance" attached to it, so if a component fails, it will be replaced, but who can justify an extra £40-60 a month for a GIG of ram, when it's paid for itself after the first 2-3 months, with cost of fitting @ £60ph, cost of ram, etc?

So over the course of 3 years, TCO will be around £1800+ for that 1 GIG of Ram, which isn't even yours.

Nice business model for Rackspace, but not something we're looking to play ball with...

Anyone here provide co-location services, coupled with management, with some decent bandwidth to play with, for a reasonable price? Failing that, decent dedicated servers, with good amounts of RAM + HD space, prices?

Cheers.

[Mattt]

Register 1 will crop up as a suggested name I will guess

[imfinlay]

I work for a large European service provider - we do a variety of services including colo, managed servers and virtual hosting. Serious b/w too, all on our own IP and Tx infrastructure. I'm not a sales guy but PM me your details and I'll get someone to contact you.

Ian

[JamieBeeston]

stuartbuckell said:

Hi there,

We currently have our servers running @ rackspace. Needless to say, they are always online, excellent support from Rackspace, but one thing bothers me, and that is the constant shift in monthly prices for extra ram/hd, etc.

Which makes expanding, very costly. I can understand the "insurance" attached to it, so if a component fails, it will be replaced, but who can justify an extra £40-60 a month for a GIG of ram, when it's paid for itself after the first 2-3 months, with cost of fitting @ £60ph, cost of ram, etc?

So over the course of 3 years, TCO will be around £1800+ for that 1 GIG of Ram, which isn't even yours.

Nice business model for Rackspace, but not something we're looking to play ball with...

Anyone here provide co-location services, coupled with management, with some decent bandwidth to play with, for a reasonable price? Failing that, decent dedicated servers, with good amounts of RAM + HD space, prices?

Cheers.

Check my profile, this is exactly what we do.

Offering a Rackspace beating level of service, as a rackspace beating cost

I've dropped you an email.

J

[JamieBeeston]

imfinlay said:

I work for a large European service provider - we do a variety of services including colo, managed servers and virtual hosting. Serious b/w too, all on our own IP and Tx infrastructure. I'm not a sales guy but PM me your details and I'll get someone to contact you.

Ian

I live in the Hilton on Marsh Wall, sounds like we should meet for a drink some time

J

[JamieBeeston]

Mattt said:

Register 1 will crop up as a suggested name I will guess

I love reading comments like this

[roadsweeper]

We can offer very cost-effective co-location. YHM.

[Stu R]

Mattt said:

Register 1 will crop up as a suggested name I will guess

Heard nothing but good things about Register1, and will be employing Jamie's services (for hosting ) myself in the near future thanks to the PH collective. Definately seems the way to go

[JamieBeeston]

Stu R said:

Mattt said:

Register 1 will crop up as a suggested name I will guess

Heard nothing but good things about Register1, and will be employing Jamie's services (for hosting ) myself in the near future thanks to the PH collective. Definately seems the way to go

always nice to have another PH'r on board

J