Thread: Should I?...Is it really worth it?

Depends how carried away you're intending on getting. You need to get quotes on colocation and look at the cost of the equipment you'd have to buy (don't forget to account for maintenance costs) and see if the cost of colo+purchase+maintenance is less than the cost of dedicated servers..

Obviously with colo and having all your boxes in one place will make you look more 'contigious' on the whole and a bit more professional, but you'll have to consider if that really matters for whatever your marketed product is.

Also - why is this in the Ipod chat forum?

I wonder how many ipods you could fit in a rack...

Originally Posted by Cranky

I wonder how many ipods you could fit in a rack...

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Originally Posted by UKDSL

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Thanks, I'll make a note of that.

Originally Posted by gservs

On a serious note, reselling isn’t really worth it, much better to buy your own hardware

you'd be surprised - i know a couple of people making a decent amount of money from reselling dedis atleast with the lower end ones, anyway

much less hastle too

I'm confused by the orginal post. Is he saying that he wants to downgrade from a dedicated to a reseller account or is he saying that he wants to start reselling servers?

Originally Posted by Solvaut

I kind of wan to colocate with redbus.... where would i find some decent priced hardware? and what isp provider/bandwidth provider should i pick?

Not to state the obvious, but you ARE asking a large group of ISPs... All selling the SAME thing, just offering slightly different services, but generally it is the same service colocation wise..

In regards to Transit, well it is PURELY up to you, everyone will try and sell you transit, but you really do need to investigate this yourself.

In regards to hardware, it is very dependant on what kind of service you want to supply. Flexiserve will do you cheapish machines if you want pre-built, otherwise, Shuttle's can be built pretty cheaply, which come with everything inside, bar the CPU and RAM. (Basically case, psu, motherboard). The cooling isn't too bad, and they're generally quite reliable.

>I kind of wan to colocate with redbus....

www.interhouse.net - £350/m+£1000 setup per rack

>where would i find some decent priced hardware?

www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx?c=uk&id=rack_optimized&l=en&s=pad

>what isp provider/bandwidth provider should i pick?

depends if you want cheap, reliable, single-homed, multi-homed, sla, no sla, stable, fast .... will you be routing it, do you have an as#, do you have your own ip space, where are your clients located etc etc etc