MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > My current ISP is hosting mbsoftwaresolutions.com and fabmate.com for > $15.90/month, or $190.80 for the year (both sites included). > > Is that a good deal compared to what you've got? I briefly looked at > RackSpace but it said $419 for the year iirc.
Apples to oranges. $200 per year is dirt cheap. If you are happy with the service level, then what's the problem? If you are looking for even cheaper than $200, you have a high probability of shooting yourself in the foot. I pay $1400 per year for a physical box in a datacenter that I have root access to. I run 3 VM's on the machine and run several websites, 2 DNS servers, mail server for 3 companies, Subversion and MySQL servers for several applications, etc. I get guaranteed 10Mbps bandwidth, burstable to 100Mbps as needed, included in this price. I feel like that $1400 is dirt cheap, especially since I recover $100 per month from one of my clients for hosting their stuff, and $500 per year from another customer for letting them have a VM. I should actually start thinking of moving to the next phase, since I'm in the black now: getting another colo in a different datacenter somewhere else in the country to mirror to. I briefly researched what a similar setup would cost me at Rackspace, but it seemed too rich for my blood (> $4K per year I think). However if I had the need for guaranteed uptime, that price would be in line. My provider (calpop) has very flaky service, although there's always someone that will answer the phone. I'd say I've been down about 6 hours per year, sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes 2 hours. Usually comes down to things like "we found that the switch was unplugged" or "your power cord fell out". Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
