[olug-colo] I'm signing a contract in less than 60 days

[Charles Bird]

May want to check out STIKC.com too.



On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Dan Clough <dan at miniarpa.net> wrote:

> Depending on how you want to handle cost recovery. you could charge $X for
> network access and utilities, and then $X per U for space.
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> But anyway, Sun Netras and cheap and Debian runs well on them, so if I can
> find about $60 + $50/month laying around I'm heavily considering snagging
> one for just this sort of thing.  :)
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> On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Charles Bird wrote:
>
> ya, the larger 4U ATX cases that are cheap, and dont use much power is
> where it gets complicated to calculate costs to colo.
> My rough estimates are between 42-45 per U, in general.
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> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Dan Clough <dan at miniarpa.net> wrote:
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>> Wow.
>>
>> I'd love to pitch in $50 and throw a server at you to colo, but I don't
>> have any rackmount servers at the moment and most 1U servers are still a
>> little on the expensive side.  2U and up would get cost-prohibitive for my
>> situation.  I'll keep looking around though, if I can find something no more
>> than 1.75 inches high I'll definitely pitch in.
>>
>> (LapkoSoft in Lincoln had $30-40 IBM Dual P3 1U rackmounts a week or two
>> ago but for some reason their website isn't showing any servers... those
>> would have been awesome to colo, AND I could have picked up a load of them
>> on my way to Omaha!)
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Charles Bird wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I quit my job at PowerDNN in November and have been having adventures
>> and what not.
>> > I dont know what all has been going on here since I've been gone, but
>> I'd like to extend an offer to all olug/olug-colo members to get space,
>> bandwidth and power at cost.
>> >
>> > I'll be signing on a contract to get my first cabinet at STC and IP
>> transit from PinPoint.
>> > My first cabinet will be up within 60 days, I'm delaying the signing so
>> that I can get equipment together, file my LLC, get my ARIN IP allocation,
>> and get a nice cash buffer :)
>> > If there are alot of interested people that want in before then, then I
>> can make it happen in a matter of days, however, I will only have a limited
>> amount of IPV4 IPs from Pin Point, and it may take a lil bit to get my
>> allocation from ARIN.
>> >
>> > Network starting off is 100Mb full duplex port, throttled to 20Mb/20Mb.
>> Its a mix of Cox, Qwest, ATT and Level3.
>> > In the next couple months after I start, it will be a full 100Mb. After
>> that, then another 100Mb circuit will be added...thats the plan at least.
>> > Anyone wanting their own dedicated pipe can get one, thats fine with me.
>> I'm here to grow and let others grow too.
>> >
>> > My main goal right now is to get my first cabinet filled as quickly as
>> possible so I can break even.
>> > There doesn't appear to be much catering to the tower cases, but I
>> anticipate that in the next cabinet or two, that it would work out well with
>> rack shelves and smaller form factor enclosures, like mid, mini, itx and
>> some creative baffling for heat removal.
>> >
>> > Let me know if this sounds good to you all or not, I figured it would be
>> of a lower cost to all, and speaking of cost, this should be below 50.00 per
>> U for everything. :)
>> >
>> > You have no idea how many lunches they bought me just to cave into my
>> demands!
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Charles
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