Re: [Techtalk] Running vmware or similar on remote dedicated server at good price

not a clue about their services,
but colopronto.com
might be a choice if you have a 1u appliance,
1u with 2 gigs ram, good for 6 (or more) vm, = $90
colo $20 + hardware payment installment=$60 = $80


On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:

> On 1/30/07, Mary Gardiner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007, Kelly Jones wrote:
>>> Where can I rent a fairly decent dedicated server at a good price  
>>> and
>>> put vmware (or virtuozzo or xen or any free virtualization software)
>>> on it, so that I can have multiple virtual machines?
>>
>> Can you let us know: preferred geographical location (if any),  
>> what kind
>> of support you want (support for failed hardware? support for  
>> software
>> problems? 24 hour?), what kind of downtime is acceptable and ideally
>> your price range? All these things help when recommending servers.
>
> Mary,
>
> Thanks! I hadn't thought about those questions. Answers:
>
> Preferably in the USA/Canada, just for latency issues (I'm in the USA
> myself).
>
> Only really need hardware support and the occasional reboot (if the
> host machine totally hangs or dies). No software support. Their job
> would be to keep the machine reachable remotely-- everything else
> would be my responsibility.
>
> I'd be interested in additional pricing for daily rsync backups of the
> virtual server images, but that's not a requirement-- I can do it
> myself if they can't
>
> No uptime guarantee required -- this would just be a fun server that
> wouldn't have to be high-availability or anything. I won't lose money
> when its down, so I don't need 99% uptime or anything like that
>
> Price range is the one question I can't answer: I can get decent VPSs
> for $15/month (and actually some even cheaper) and I've seen tolerable
> dedicated servers for as low as $30/month (but $50/month is more
> standard).
>
> Since I'm looking for a dedicated server to put 3-4 virtual servers
> on, I expect a $50/month server won't cut it (but, if it will,  
> great!).
>
> My ideal price (may be unachievable) is $15/month times the number of
> virtual servers I can reasonably put on the box.
>
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