--- Patrick Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Arnaute wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently hosted in a small, independent > > datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, > Sprint, > > UUnet, AT&T and ... ?) > > > > They are a very nice facility, very technical and > > professional, and have real people on-site 24 > hours > > per day ... remote hands, etc. All very high end > and > > well managed. > > > > But, I am charged between $150 and $180 per > megabit/s > > for non-redundant, single-homed bandwidth (not > sure > > which provider they put it on) and even if I > commit to > > 20 or 30 megabits/s it still only drops down to > $100 - > > $120 per megabit/s. > > > > > Are you sure that you are connected to only one > provider? You mean that > they are not doing BGP so that if one connection > goes down, another path > to the Internet is available? Yes, that's what I am saying - one pipe only, and if it goes down, I go down. So ... I am wondering if roughly $150/mb/s is just way off the charts for something like that, or if I am only overpaying by roughly 10-30% or so ... And then, of course, I'd like to be pointed to where I can learn why HE.NET and L3 are so cheap compared to that, and what my cost/benefit would be to switching... (as for racks and power, it is on the high average side. Roughly $1000/mo for a full cabinet) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
