Thread: Colocating a Desktop?

Lo again,

If you've seen my thread in the dedicated server discussion board, you'll probably know what I'm trying to do. A brief summary:

I have a desktop p266 machine that I would like to host about 10-20 'charity/personal' sites that I am affiliated with. I would also like to start out into the hosting business to compliment the web design and programming I do. The machine may be old but it'll do for the time being, and I have a mini dell tower with a p766 in it I can substitute if needed. Anyway I'm going off my point:

I need a cheap'ish colo host that I can plonk this machine on, until I have:

• Enough business and money coming in to be able to afford a proper rackmount machine;
• a good enough site and presence to increase and maintain a local customer base,
• enough experience with Linux to know how to manage a bigger, more mission critical server.

The rough timescale I'm looking at for moving up to presumably a 1U rackmount server with 1 or 2Mbits (maybe more, maybe less) 95th percentile bandwidth is realistically, a year. Initially I don't think I'll use more than 512k (95th) under any stretch of the imagination. Quartile billing would be much preferred.

I don't remember who was offering it or what the conditions attached to it were, but I saw a deal here for 20 pounds for just basic colocation. I could probably stick with 30 pounds initially per month, but not much more than that. This is fairly basic stuff after all

Thank you everyone

Jan Mulders

The dimensions of the box are 40cm tall (this is the 733mhz tower.. which is probably a more suitable machine), 18cm wide, and 38cm deep. About 2-3 u's I believe.

Surely somebody here owns their own datacenter near London or something?

Jan

Surely somebody here owns their own datacenter near London or something?

Poundhost?

I dont understand why you would want to co-lo a "server" with specs like that, its only about £500 to buy a single xeon server from dell, 1U as well