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Does anyone have a sense of how much colocation costs? Assuming you have a modest setup that would otherwise run on a home server or VPS?
by divbzero 2y ago
Does anyone have a sense of how much colocation costs? Assuming you have a modest setup that would otherwise run on a home server or VPS?
- Ir0nMan 2y agoA VPS will be cheaper, easier, and better in /almost/ all ways. 1U rack space, including power, a 1Gb network uplink, and at least 1 dedicated IPv4 IP, is going to be at least $60-80/month, and even that would from small discount colo providers you have never heard of.
- bluedino 2y agoIt's hard to say. Any of the big places are going to be an 'email us for a quote' pricing model. https://ussignal.com/uploads/general/Grand-Rapids-East-Data-Center-Data-Sheet.pdf https://ussignal.com/uploads/general/Grand-Rapids-East-Data-... I haven't rented any space in a while but I'm going to assume $400/month is about the cheapest that you would be able to get a half a cabinet. And of course, that depends on how much bandwidth you need, how much power you need, are you running top-tier connectivity or something like Cogent/he.net...