Mike, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Mike Raley <mrale...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm getting the feeling that the underlying issues around "buy local" are > still at work, but due to the unique nature of hosting, in a different way. > To me at least buy local means support the local economy, and lower > externalized and hidden costs. > > If you have a remote (say california, texas, etc) colo it's not local, but > they have economy of scale, lower externalized costs than local (say being > close to power, major peering points, etc), and if you go through a local > reseller, you are keeping at least some of your dollars local, plus, it keeps > the massive power generation (and it's associated negatives) centralized. > > I've take a few interesting bits from this discussion (some of which I > already knew) > > 1) localized hosting is a dead end business idea unless you have a unique > value added proposition, or major number of customers! (already knew) > > 2) There is little to no interest in local hosting in the area. Economies of > scale, and the benefits they bring are just too tantalizing (guessed, but had > no clear data) > > 3) Using something like slice host through a resller, works fairly well as a > hybrid between buy local and getting the best bang for your buck! > > So, who are the local resllers? :)
As I said earlier, we're a Mosso (now "The Rackspace Cloud") reseller and have been for years: http://www.foundline.com/services/web-hosting/ It's really intended for our clients who also use us for web development and design, but we'd be happy to sell to people who just need web hosting ;-) Thanks, Bradley > > Mike > > > --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Rene Churchill <r...@wherezit.com> wrote: > >> From: Rene Churchill <r...@wherezit.com> >> Subject: Re: Vermont Hosting Providers >> To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU >> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 5:07 PM >> While physical location of the hosting is of little >> relevance to >> the hosting customers, it is important to the hosting >> services >> themselves. Microsoft and Google are both buying land to >> build >> data centers in the Columbia River valley up near Portland >> because >> of the availability of cheap, dependable hydro power. >> >> Access to cheap power is another thing that improves with >> scale >> and is a barrier to local/co-op hosting businesses. >> >> Rene >> >> >> Dan Coutu wrote: >> > To make Mike's idea work you'd need to secure >> hundreds of customers (or more) and have a significant sized >> facility with generator backup, redundant high bandwidth >> connections, and a crew of at least 9 operations personnel >> to provide round the clock monitoring and support. >> That's a very significant investment. I don't know >> if it could be made to work since, as Mike points out, there >> is strong competition from non-local providers and to a >> large extent the physical location of hosting servers is >> becoming less relevant as time goes on. >> >> -- >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> René Churchill r...@wherezit.com >> Geek Two 802-244-7880 x527 >> Your Source for Local Information >> http://www.wherezit.com > > > > -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
