ultra lowend colo (colo offers less than $20/m)
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I suspect colo has a lot more DC operations hassle per server than 1000's of racks of identical, centrally managed dedicated servers. The low cost dedi hosts are almost like VPS hosts in that the operations are heavily automated. This isn't possible with colo where someone has to physically wrangle boxes around.
The thing is, to do colo you need more expensive PDU that can meter power per outlet. You also would need more Lantronix Spider and other remote access tools around. Not to mention colo is customized. It's not a you load 20 servers into a rack and be done. So take more power, some less, some more space etc. It won't be an exact fit.
Depends on your specs. Amps - IPs - bandwidth - port?
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
from their Twitter feed last week:
Q (user): "Wird es in absehbarer Zeit wieder RasPI colocation geben?
"A (Edis):"ja, wird es. Sobald wir Nachschub an Netzteilen bekommen, können wir wieder 200 slots vergeben ;-) "
PCExtreme offers Rasberry PI colo for €3 monthly in their DC (DC is Gyro Center II in Amsterdam)
http://raspberrycolocation.com/home/
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drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Anyone taken PCExtreme up on their offer? Anyone use them for other services? Anyone have info on their network, ASN, upstream(s), etc?
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
They're a large (as in 20 employees) host and have a whole floor in Gyro Center DC. The one negative is their customer service.
reviews: http://www.ispgids.com/ervaringen/pcextreme
network: http://bgp.he.net/AS48635
I think the real question here would be what type of hardware are you looking to colo? How much space, power, port and bandwidth?
Just thinking for a data center to offer colo sub $20 you either have to have tons of space or have a section of your facility you dedicate to really budget colo and sell things sub your full rates. That doesn't always mean support has to suffer either.
We have seen raspberry pi colo for sub $20 so maybe it can be done if the colo facility wants too. Our parent company sells colo for $40/mo. But I would be interested in discussing to see if we could implement something like that here for vpsBoard members.
Seems everything can be commoditized except for true enterprise level private cloud at the moment due to expensive infrastructure.
We have seen raspberry pi colo for sub $20 so maybe it can be done if the colo facility wants too. Our parent company sells colo for $40/mo. But I would be interested in discussing to see if we could implement something like that here for vpsBoard members.
Seems everything can be commoditized except for true enterprise level private cloud at the moment due to expensive infrastructure.
Do you know how much bandwidth you'd be looking for?
Who is your parent company?
http://www.ocosa.com by the look of it.
That is correct, OCOSA is the parent company.