Christopher L Merrill wrote:
Now you have. We have one right now. Our plan is $90/mo. It went down from $100 (added the static IP) when we moved our office and signed a new 1-yr contract in December.
I stand corrected. Maybe it was their way of telling me they didn't want my business. How long have y'all had the contract?
$80/mo is closer to what I was seeing, too. Also, the $80/mo price colo is probably for a 1u rack-mount unit, right? Rack-mounts are not cheap, so if the OP has a tower server, then factor in the cost of a new server, too. So TWC remains cheaper, assuming bandwidth is not an issue (such as hosting a personal site).
I'm hosted on their hardware. They provided it to me. It's not terribly high end, but it's worked quite well. Plus, when a piece of hardware dies, they replace it for free. Of course, a colo does have added niceties such as UPS, generators, redundant links, etc. Comparing it simply on a cost basis to RR isn't fair. But even if you do, it's not -way- different.
Of course, this is all moot for me, since I use DynDNS and host on the residential RR plan for $45/mo. But our business would probably jump on a chance to co-lo a tower server for $45/mo.
My last post on this one too. I just wanted to offer up my experience, which was I could get residential RR plus a colo for cheaper than what I could get a static IP through RR.
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