hi ya andrew
at a $1,000/month... you can get 2 co-lo servers !!!
at the major co-lo in silicon valley...
most nowdays go for about $1,500 for a rack ....1Mbps thruput...
and the old days was $200-$500 per standard PC server...
but seems competition is drving up prices in some ranges and
dropping others prices of other services...
i claim a shared t1-sized "small co-lo" server is about $200/month...
depending on loading... ( bytes per msg per day per month etc...
have fun
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> Becky- I'm glad to hear your list woes are resolved. I'm still working to
> resolve mine. The problem with most ASPs is they either won't touch my
> list, or they want to charge me an arm and a leg (had two quotes for $1000
> per *month*!) Here's the breakdown on my list:
>
> about 1,000 total subscribers
> ~350 real-time subscribers
> ~650 digest subscribers
> average of 106 messages per day
> average of 6.7 digests per day
> I use a character limit of 5,000 on individual messages, so they never
> exceed 6KB in size
> Digests are kicked off every 20,000 characters
> To reduce bandwith, I only allow straight text, no HTML and no attachments
> Note that the content is NOT commercial or adult in nature (we talk cars)
>
> Most ASPs I've been talking to count the total number of messages by
> multiplying the montly messages by the number of subscribers. In my case,
> that's over 1,000,000 per month, and they aren't discounting for my
> bandwidth-saving measures. Help! I either want to find a really rockin'
> ASP that I can afford long-term -or- just a temporary home until I complete
> a permenant move to my server. Note that I currently use majordomo, but am
> open to more powerful options. Thank you for your suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew P. Tasi
> -The only good Topica is an offline Topica
>
