[LUAU] Colocation or plain old hosting

[Al Plant]

Jeff Mings wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to reply Laurence!
> 
>     Yes, I'm running several sites via conventional web hosting.  A few 
> of my sites were originally hosted by Cedant, which was a very competent 
> company.  Cedant was then bought by aplus, which was then bought by 
> Deluxe for Business, which seems to be clueless about a great number of 
> things.  Out of frustration with hosting companies, I'm thinking of just 
> setting up my own box.
> 
>     Rackspace's virtual boxes are insanely cheap and offer reliably good 
> performance.  Assuming I don't find anything better locally, I'll 
> probably provision a Rackspace virtual server.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> On 06/02/2012 09:11 AM, Laurence Laforga wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I haven't run into any local co-location companies that sell less than 
>> a 1U
>> rack space.  I think it would make more economical sense to sign up for a
>> web hosting account.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> Laurence
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: luau-bounces at lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org
>> [mailto:luau-bounces at lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org] On Behalf Of Jeff 
>> Mings
>> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:01 PM
>> To: LUAU
>> Subject: [LUAU] Really simple colocation
>>
>> Hi Guys!
>>
>>       I am frustrated with hosting companies not offering quite what I 
>> want,
>> or changing ownership and then features, or suffering from strangely slow
>> MySQL servers.  I'm wondering if there is a very very basic colocation
>> option in town that will give me an IP address on a pipe with low 
>> down-time,
>> and UPS-backed power for me to plug a small box into.  I don't need 
>> loads of
>> monthly bandwidth or even a whole U in a rack.  I just want to run a 
>> basic
>> Drupal site for a local company that doesn't get huge amounts of site
>> traffic. Something as simple as an Asus EeeBox is all I need.  (No, 
>> really,
>> just a 2 GB RAM Atom box running Linux is more than enough).
>>
>>       Has anyone found a good local company that does this for a low 
>> monthly
>> rate?
>>
>> Thanks for reading this and giving it some consideration, -Jeff
>>
>>    
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I know of a colo and provider that is out of SanDiego CA who runs Linux 
and FreeBSD stuff. THey gave me help when I  set up my own servers here 
in Wahiawa.

May be a contact to check out. sdbug at sdbug.org.



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