Re: Co-location / hosting environments (Damian Gerow)

Just to add to the equation, I've recently been trying out a few VPS
companies around the continent.  So far, vpsville.ca has actually been
stable, and I haven't had any downtime or bandwidth/resource issues as of
yet.  The box hasn't been pushed though...

It's been about 10 weeks.
  
http://www.vpsville.ca/plans

Considering the cost of some of their plans, this has worked out
extremely well for one of my clients that required a quick setup with
little fuss...

I actually bought an extra VPS for myself, just to have hanging around. ;)

One thing of note.  I went through vpslink.com and tektonic.net before
bailing on both of those and ending up at vpsville.ca...

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:32:54 -0700
Ross Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can do a real colo server for $45/mo (minimal bandwidth) which is
> what I did. I'm running Gentoo Linux. They are very Linux friendly
> though, and I think they even had a surcharge if you were running a
> Windows server. I configured my box at home and mailed it to them.
> 
> -Ross
> 
> It would seem Robert Echlin, on Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:10:49PM -0700,
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > thanks to Ross for the info about www.tera-byte.com. It doesn't seem
> > to say what OS is on the virtual servers, not that I have $55/month
> > available, in any case. Or do you pay them $150 to install an OS, if
> > you don't like Win 2K, as mentioned under colo's?
> > 
> > Info about places I have used: 
> > I have been using web-only hosting services at http://123ehost.com
> > (http://talksoftware.echlin.ca) and http://Stormweb.ca
> > (http://hogwartsalumni.com). - Well, OK, HogwartsAlumni is actually
> > run by my wife's grad committee. I didn't get "the letter".
> > 
> > Both are at least Canadian, and I found reasonably priced for web
> > hosting.
> > 
> > Thanks, Damian, for the info on
> > http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-colo/ Sounds not quite like what
> > I want, as you thought, but thanks anyway, you never know when you
> > might want to do some ISP-type stuff <grin>.
> > 
> > And about the idea I have (one of many as for most people), no, not
> > asking for assistance. No time to co-ordinate that much <grin>. Comes
> > of being in a S.I.L.K family. (Single Income, Lotsa Kids)
> > Mainly, after saying it was of interest to me, I wanted to make sure
> > no one would ask me how it was coming along. <grin>
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:06:43 -0400
> > From: Damian Gerow <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [oclug] Co-location / hosting environments (Damian Gerow)
> > To: [email protected]
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > 
> > Thus spake Ross Jordan ([email protected]) [21/07/08 19:40]:
> > : I've been using www.tera-byte.com for the last 3 years and
> > generally been : happy with them. For low bandwidth servers, they are
> > very affordable and 
> > 
> > 
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