Or, just colocate in the US. While it is not a very green or progressive comment to make, nor is it healthy or prudent to have an irreverent or dismissive attitude toward energy consumption concerns especially when it is the number one economic challenge for data centers here today, I cannot imagine a facility here that would double your price for half an amp.
Data center power offerings here are not even denominated in terms of single amps, but usually tens of them. If you told someone you needed half an amp or 1 amp, they'd probably laugh. If not, you're in the wrong data center. Is that always going to be the case, is that a wise way to look at it that is laden with any prescience or foresight? I don't know. I'm just saying. I can't imagine 0.5A -> 0.9A even registering in American colocation pricing. Chris Bagnall wrote: >>> I wasn't suggesting a tower case (in case that's what you meant). Get a >>> 4U/5U rackmount case. > > Given most datacentres will charge either by the rack or by the U, that's a > heck of a lot of space to rent for one server. > > As others have suggested, a 1U/2U chassis with one of the low-power Xeon > variants is probably your best bet. Make sure whatever kernel you're using > has the appropriate ACPI stuff to enable low-power modes on the CPU (C1 I > think, on recent Intel chips). > > And avoid FB-DIMMs - they're *incredibly* power hungry compared to > bog-standard ECC DIMMs. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
