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EC2 is more expensive than renting dedicated hardware. Housing/power/cooling/networking/etc are all built-in to that price, not added costs. Colocating your own
by dangrossman 13y ago
EC2 is more expensive than renting dedicated hardware. Housing/power/cooling/networking/etc are all built-in to that price, not added costs. Colocating your own hardware is not the only option. You can provision someone else's dedicated hardware in under an hour, all costs included, with 24/7 on-site staff to handle failed components or other issues (which again are included in the price).
- bcoates 13y agoI'm speccing out some things I host on AWS on softlayer's dedicated hosting, and I'm not coming up with vastly cheaper prices there either. I can get big (compared to ec2) servers cheap but storage costs eat up most of the advantage.
- latch 13y agoSoftlayer, along with Rackspace, are expensive providers. The price will be similar to EC2 (but the raw performance of the CPUs and hard disks will be much better). Hetzner and OVH provide the starkest contrast when it comes to price. They are also pretty well respected. There's a million other choices in between. webhostingtalk.com is the best place to get more info..but I can give you names that have been around for a long time and tend to be liked by customers: webnx, singlehop, 100tb (softlayer reseller), reliablesite.net, hivelocity, netdepot. The list goes on and on, but if you want to see price differences, check them out.
- benologist 13y agohttps://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/specials/ https://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/specials/ Those are specials but their pricing in general is very good. SoftLayer has some great stuff most hosts don't have but you pay for it.