CoLo Anyone Do It?

BeerNuts

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I am pretty sure I am going to be killing my current set up sometime in the near future. Rather than bump up my VPS or get a Dedi I was thinking I could just buy a dell rack server and colo it somewhere for near the same price.

What I don't understand is that several sites I have checked out are charging a fortune for a colo. Is anyone else using a colo set up? Who are you with and what are you paying out? Id love some advice and some referrals before I move forward with the idea.
 


BeerNuts said:
macminicolo: Mac Mini colocation | Mac mini hosting - Now that is an interesting idea lol, I have never heard of anyone using MacMini's as web servers but it sounds cool.

@subigo - Thanks his prices are actually not that bad. Glad to see not everyone wants $150 for 1U.

Anyone else have some other colo sources?
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Using a mac mini for a server isn't actually that bad an idea, especially since they're intel so you can run just bout any x86 operating system. Course you'd have to install rEFit to boot off most of them (and make sure they had the appropriate drivers going), though the site is pitching that you use OSX Server, which is an utter waste of resources in my opinion.

If you were to use the newest mini available, its basically a Core2 Duo 2.6ghz with the ability to upgrade to 8GB of rams (which comes with OSX Server right on apple's sales page).

However for 999$ I'd build some very decent 1U rack and use that, could kick the shit out of a mini in terms of server hardware at that price. But some people may have gotten an older mini on ebay for 300 or less and want a small little server to colo.
 
kblessinggr said:
Using a mac mini for a server isn't actually that bad an idea, especially since they're intel so you can run just bout any x86 operating system. Course you'd have to install rEFit to boot off most of them (and make sure they had the appropriate drivers going), though the site is pitching that you use OSX Server, which is an utter waste of resources in my opinion.

If you were to use the newest mini available, its basically a Core2 Duo 2.6ghz with the ability to upgrade to 8GB of rams (which comes with OSX Server right on apple's sales page).

However for 999$ I'd build some very decent 1U rack and use that, could kick the shit out of a mini in terms of server hardware at that price. But some people may have gotten an older mini on ebay for 300 or less and want a small little server to colo.
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I was reading a bit more into the mac mini thing and it seems anyone who is serious about it installs centos on it. It would be nice if I could buy the server edition of the mini with out the OS. It wouldn't be that bad since OS is a large chunk of the cost.

Got any advice on building a 1U? For the price that mini actually kicks the crap out of the entry level dell PowerEdge's.
 
On a plus side though, I just received a reply from support in under 5 minutes. Apparently my server suffered from a "kernel panic"... Maybe it needs to try meditation or some other relaxation technique ;)
 
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