[Gllug] Hiring servers - uk2.net

[Paul Brazier]

> The price isn't great, too.  At /last/ year's linux expo mailbox were
> advertising co-locations for £45/mo, and I'd imagine you get a great
> deal more service and help with that.  Personally, I'd grab a spare
> low-end pentium or such and co-locate that somewhere like BlackCat or
> Mailbox for less than £500/year.  The only reason I haven't done so is
> that I already have two machines more powerful than my fastest home
> box in data centres, and I'm running out of things to do with 
> them.  :-)

Are we getting to the time when high bandwidth connections will be easy
(and cheap) to get anywhere so you could just stick a server in your
front room and rent your own personal connection?
And thus co-location will diminish in popularity?
Or is this several years off?

 


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