[ale] Collocating non-rackable boxen

[James P. Kinney III]

How big of a pipe do you need? I have recently added a 15kw automatic
backup generator to supply power to my micro-colo/hosting setup. I
currently have two DSL lines for an aggregate upload speed of 1.536Mb.


On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:51 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> For years, I've run a web server and email server out of my home over a
> DSL connection from a mid-tower (Athlon 900mhz, 512MB).  I've been happy
> with th experience and it has been enough to fulfill my needs and handle
> web sites for a few of my friends' companies as well.
> 
> My only problem with this set up is power failures...everything about it
> has been very stable, but a power failure when I'm out of town quickly
> reveals its fragile nature.
> 
> So, in the last two weeks, I've transitioned over to a virtual private
> server.  It's on a big AMD 64 bit machine and has a guaranteed amount of
> 256 MB ram (with gigabytes worth of burstable ram), which sounds ok, but
> I'm starting to think it might be a little oversold.  It's slow at times,
> certain webapps (web mail like squirrelmail for example, which open a LOT
> of imapd connections) slow it quite a bit, and it's memory capabilities
> are suspect.  For example, with ab, I can crash Apache using 300
> concurrent connections for just 600 total attempts.  My old Athlon happily
> chugs along with three times this amount.  I've yet to crash it.
> 
> So, I'm not so happy.  Ideally, I want my old server back but on a more
> reliable power supply.
> 
> Is there a company out there that does affordable collocation of
> non-racked PCs?  I can't spend a lot (the VPS is $45/month), but would
> love to drop this guy somewhere with a reliable power supply and adequate
> pipe.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> John
> 
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