----- Original Message ----- From: "David Irvine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: [scottish] Remote Boxes (OT)
> Hi guys. > > A few people have expressed interest in this idea. > > I wish to get a box colocated in somewhere like telehouse/south gyle > basically a box with a v. fast connection where i can hosts sites, > download files to etc. I want to share the costs of a box with a few > other people (who will all have root access) so we can keep the cost > down. > > Basically if you want to have your own colocated box somewhere with a > high speed link for hopefully less than it would cost normally email me > off list. Mailbox Internet in Fulham do good deals on rackspace http://www.mailbox.net.uk/ ... rackspace in places like telehouse, redbus interhouse, telecity, etc shouldn't be hard to come by. i don't know what worldix or telecity in the gyle are charging these days, but they should have plenty of space at the moment :) I was lucky and did a similar thing with a group of mates and colo'd a PII something or other and a SPARCstation 20 at Webfusion in Nottingham (crap network - relatively lots of packet loss considering the amount of money they've spent on their colo facility and their connectivity, but we have been paying about 700 quid a year for the last few years and they haven't increased our rate in line with their current products >touch wood< ...) It's bloody handy to do if you know you won't go over your bandwidth limits by too much in any given month, and you know your kit is stable enough not to have local user intervention for any reason (the uptime on the SPARCstation 20 we have [running obsd 2.6 spit] is hovering around the 539 day mark ... neuro:waco:~:14 > uptime 2:09AM up 539 days, 4:37, 2 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.12, 0.26 ... so if your box can do that, you're sorted!) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
