Douglas Muth on 8 Dec 2010 16:06:54 -0800 |
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Re: [PLUG] Philly Colo |
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote: > The last colo discussion I've seen here was in 2008. > > I might have need to colo 1U to 3U of servers that are currently on > a 256Kb DSL uplink. 3 IP's > This might sound like a silly question, but with the popularity of VPSes (Linode, Slicehost, etc.) and other services like Amazon's EC2, why do people still colo? I say this as someone who has had to make use of "remote hands", failed hardware, flaky hardware, and such with co-loed equipment in the past, and that's never fun. VPSes (and could computing, I guess) eliminate a lot of those hassles, and tend to be most cost efficient (you pay only for what you use). For the curious: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ -- Doug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug