[clue-tech] seeking information for colocating a tower in a low cost datacenter

[Nate Duehr]

Greg Knaddison wrote:

>On 9/27/05, Ryan Grow <ryangrow at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I am looking for a low cost solution for hosting a
>>tower linux box in the Denver/Boulder metro area. This
>>is a development box, so we don't need the high
>>availability that comes with the more expensive data
>>centers such as rackspace or viawest.
>>    
>>
>
>So, is there something wrong with adding this to someone's DSL or a
>cable modem (like your own)?  What kind of connectivity do you need? 
>What kind of physical access?  You've said what you don't need, but
>how "low" could you go on the other services?
>  
>
When he first said he wanted to co-locate a tower at a datacenter in the 
subject line I was thinking... "Hmmm, cool.  Another new wireless ISP in 
the area!" 

And my thoughts went to the needs for an engineering review, knowing if 
the zoning was correct for a tower structure, etc.

Haha.... too many RF projects these days.

Anyway, back to the real reason for the message...

The cost-vs-pain point for most ISP/datacenters on the low end seems to 
lean toward managed hosting these days.  Any particular reason it has to 
be on that specific tower machine, or could you go with someone (like 
our local tummy.com folks and numerous others) who has virtualized a 
large server where you still have a shell and root, but it's not on your 
hardware?

Going from their virtualized server hardware to having your own box 
taking up space and producing heat, etc... easily doubles or triples the 
cost, no matter how cheap a datacenter you use.

Nate


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