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Any thoughts on this?

• anurag 17y ago
  No personal experience, but manybooks.net is a popular (mostly public domain) ebook site that has been running well on macminicolo.net for several years now. http://manybooks.net/about/ http://manybooks.net/about/
  • pw 17y ago
    Yeah, in fact it was manybooks that led me to macminicolo. I hadn't seen manybooks until yesterday. Neat site. Nice typography.
  • manybooks 17y ago
    I run manybooks.net -- only have good things to say about macminicolo; they're responsive to tech queries, have decent pricing in my experience (and have been very good about switching my plan when bandwidth usage spiked), and I haven't noticed any bottlenecks in their setup. They're also notable, in my experience, for not CAUSING any trouble with my server or the network itself.
• Zev 17y ago
  I (well, those of us behind Mobile Colloquy, not just me) briefly considered having a colo'd Mac Mini a few months back. It was either with macminicolo or at a datacenter near where one of us lived (NYC area, LA area and SFish area, so decent variety, even if the focus of our search was on LA or SF). For our purposes, the datacenters that we looked at[1] wound up costing about the same as it would have to host with macminicolo. With macminicolo, bandwidth is expensive, while other places charge for the space on the rack and have much (3-4x) more bandwidth. It ended up being a lot more then it would cost to get a VPS or two (or even renting a cheapish, non-colo'd, dedicated server somewhere). So, unless you absolutely need a Mac server[2], I don't really think its worth it. [1] Can't remember where exactly we looked. I'll dig through my emails and see if I can find any information. [2] There are definitely some valid reasons for having a Mac Server. Stuff like Golden%Braeburn, http://golden-braeburn.com http://golden-braeburn.com, which, I suppose wouldn't need much bandwidth.