Al and Julian, thanks for your comments. I'm thinking the Rackspace
virtual server is the way to go here.
Thanks,
-Jeff
On 06/02/2012 04:08 PM, Julian Yap wrote:
It sounds like a virtual server is the only real option for you. For your
needs, a local host who hosts things physically locally would always be more
expensive. Hawaii just has higher fixed costs such as energy, property and
bandwidth costs.
Are you willing to pay a local premium for the same product?
Even if you host a small box locally and don't need a full 1U a unit of space,
dedicated power, network cross connect need to be assigned to you. You would
need to also be in the data center security system, billing system, support
system. You may as well buy a 2nd IP address from your home ISP and host your
EeeBox from your home.
So given all the base fixed cost disadvantages of a local hosting firm (hosting
physically in Hawaii) the overheads need to be factored in. So as with other
local businesses competing against the might of the Internet you're paying for
other factors such as convenience, local access, etc... If the premium
features aren't worth it, then a virtual server from mainland hosting company X
is for you.
- Julian
On Jun 2, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Mings<je...@lava.net> 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
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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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