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Depends on how powerful of a machine you need. IMO there are points where you need colo over dedicated and visa versa.
Not production, not critical, I'd rent and get a great budget deal like kimsufi or VolumeDrive, unless it's above their quality in priority.
Well, I am not really up to date in the market. I.e. I don't know where most purchase their kit from etc and I don't know if it's going to turn out cheaper or not. I was looking at JoesDC (as its not a production environment) and they have some nice deals over there (1U-4U for $50 per month).
Or there is a dedicated server, less powerful, for the same price.
^^^
Could do that, might give them a call actually. I've emailed them but not sure when I'll get a response. Guernsey and emailing don't go very well.
Will give a ring to JT (Guernsey) and JT/Foreshore (Jersey) and see if they can do any deals tomorrow when they're open
Sorry for being slightly off-topic.. but Joe's Datacenter.. just looked at their website.. The 1-4U Single Server Colo for $50.. is that legitimate?
Not $50 per unit..? Is it actually $50 for 4U, so $12.50 per unit?
If so then I'm tempted by this
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I think that's only one server. So one server can be between 1U and 4U in size.
Yep, will do. Cheers
That's how I paid for college.
^ lol
If you don't need any special requirements (like RAID) and don't have spare hardware lying around, then you'll be able to find a dedicated for a better price. Colocation becomes an advantage when you have multiple servers with special requirements. Many dedicated hosting providers have great deals for smaller servers with a generic setup.
@dominicl you never stated how powerful of a machine you needed or if you had any special requirements. Of course colo isn't viable if you just need a raspberry PI with bandwidth, or an intel pentium III processor with 128MB ddr ram.
I'd normally say Co-lo everytime, however when your friends with a commercial director of a datacentre company hardware rental tends to be cheaper than you can co-lo for!
It depends on your plans for the future.
Depending on the answers to the things above you should go for colocation.
Colocation has it's advantages over Dedicated, but it's the same the other way around.
When you want the "best" of both worlds you could look into rent to own perhaps.
If you're planning on getting a server worth more than $1000 then definitely go with colocation. It'll pay off in the long run.
I colo and regret nothing, but it DOES add up when things break, and they tend to break a lot.
What sort of things breaking have you dealt with? Hard drives? PSUs?
The thing that scares me the most is DDoS attacks. Taking out my whole network then all your servers are down. Scares me the most.
whole*
You should patch up that holey network of yours.
Fixed!
Switch's (twice), Router(once), and HDD(six) are the ones that have happened so far
I can say I run 10 dedi and I have only had one stick of RAM die in the past 6 months. Your just hated!
Yeah, I guess I am.
Heres my setup.
3 of the failed drives were on the bottom HP server
http://gyazo.com/bc1ab91df8f53de0fb32b639de9438e0.png
I would choose dedi unless I already own the server.
It is much less headache if you choose a good host. Take care at the extras, such as remote management, if they dont offer anything and charge 50 dollars an hour to replug your UTP patch they unplugged by "mistake" then I would avoid them.
If there is nothing critical, get a kimsufi, if you need reinstall a lot and remote admin, get some older HP server or supermicro, you might get a good deal at hetzner or some other place.
For non-critical, testing, development box with no long term strings attached, definitely go dedi.
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I would absolutely go with a dedicated in this situation. It sounds like you don't own the hardware you would colo, so that's a big upfront expensive, and then shipping it to a datacenter, spare parts would be another problem. It could get costly paying for remote hands to replace the hardware (some datacenters won't touch your hardware either, or charge a crapton). Just rent and if you find you don't need it anymore you can cancel, or upgrade to a better machine whenever you want.
I find it that used hardware has lower failure rate than new and I like to put in production things that I already know are working well for some time.
It sure depends on your provider of used hardware, but I would never go with the bleeding edge of anything into production. Only things I dared to put directly into production were Intel BX and via KT series of mobos, long ago, otherwise I consider it too risky, at least some testing beforehand is needed.
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Used Harddrives? Hell naw, I do used used servers, but the server itself has never failed on me.