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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jeff Chapin <<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm in the same boat -- In Cedar Falls/Waterloo, the prices I was quoted<br>
for local rackspace for a 1U server with minimal bandwidth usage ranged<br>
from $70 a month to $350 a month, which for my needs would be massive<br>
overkill -- I want a simple server I administer and can install the<br>
applications I want on, and not have to worry about losing access due to<br>
policy changes at my ISP (or even moving and getting a different ISP)<br>
and with a static IP (so I can stop using <a href="http://afraid.com" target="_blank">afraid.com</a>).<br>
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Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:<br>
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 16:18, David Champion wrote:<br>
>> I do run it on a couple of PC's at home, and on my<br>
>> server - my ISP is paying for the power on that. :)<br>
><br>
> You have a co-located server? That reminds me... what do people<br>
> recommend for things like that? I have a stack of servers at home, but<br>
> i've been thinking of consolidating all the remote services (DNS, mail,<br>
> web) onto 1 box and then either co-locating the physical box somewhere<br>
> or renting a virtual machine and migrating the services to that. Any<br>
> suggestions?<br>
><br>
> Probably a virtual machine would be cheaper for my needs since my sites<br>
> get very little traffic. And i certainly don't need to CPU power of a<br>
> dedicated machine; a year or two ago i migrated each of my servers to<br>
> machines with VIA CPUs running between 500 and 800 MHz. They are dog<br>
> slow for desktop stuff, but for simple services they are *perfect*<br>
> because they are sufficiently fast and they don't need big fans for<br>
> cooling. 500 MHz + passive heat sink + flash-based drive = silent<br>
> server. I suppose they'd seem a bit chunky serving dynamic web sites,<br>
> but most of what little content i have is (*very*) static.<br>
><br>
> I've been toying with the idea of moving my remote servers out of my<br>
> apartment for some time, but i have a roommate moving out in a few<br>
> months and so i might end up moving myself to a smaller apartment... if<br>
> i migrated my remote services to some facility i'd not have the few<br>
> days of downtime i'd otherwise expect during the moving period. And<br>
> wouldn't have to worry about finding a place to set up the server rack.<br>
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