why not just move to one of their cloud VPS products? for minimal needs as you indicated, they're largely indistinguishable from physical servers.
-wes On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jim Garrison <[email protected]> wrote: > I currently have a server with cari.net. For about $60/month I get > root access on a Celeron 3GHz (dual core) with 4GB memory, 150GB disk > and 2TB/month bandwidth. This is a real server sitting in a rack, > and is way more than enough capacity for my needs (hosting email and > a few small sites). > > I've had this sytem for about 8 years, and normally every couple > of years I upgrade the OS. cari.net provides me a new box with > the new OS and I migrate my configuration, after which they > move the IPs to the new box. > > cari.net is phasing out their low-end machines in favor of cloud > systems and much more expensive (and powerful) "real" systems. > To get something similar to what I have now would cost over > $100/month, which I can't justify. > > Is there a local colo facility where I could rent a similar > hardware setup, or maybe even just a 1U space where I could > install my own box? All I'd really need is power and > bandwidth. Boot console access would be nice but I've > done fine without it. In 8 years I've had to ask cari.net > for a manual reboot twice. > > Since I run an SMTP server, the only other requirement is IP > addresses on a blacklist-clean class C block. > > Suggestions? > > -- > Jim Garrison ([email protected]) > PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
